Common Questions Around Excel 2007 OLAP PivotTables

Microsoft Excel : Common Questions Around Excel 2007 OLAP PivotTables

 

Interesting article over at the Excel Team Blog by Allan Folting, a program manager who works on the Excel team.

I have gotten lots of questions from customers around specific functionality in Microsoft Excel 2007 PivotTables that is missing when connected to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Service Pack 2 cubes:

  1. Filtering individual calculated members
  2. Showing non-visual totals when filtering

I have also gotten lots of requests for the ability to add calculations to OLAP PivotTables using the object model, specifically:

  1. Adding calculated members/measures
  2. Adding named sets

Today I’ll discuss these topics and outline current ways and workarounds to address this.

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