Instead of manually checking each item in the filter dropdown, you can use the Filter List feature from OLAP PivotTable Extensions:Ĭertain settings must be manually changed after creating a new PivotTable. Filtering PivotTable to a ListĪ common scenario is having a list of items you wish to research in a PivotTable. This allows an administrator to copy and paste the MDX query and troubleshoot it more easily in Management Studio or MDX Studio. The MDX query exposed on the MDX tab displays the formulas for these calculations as query calculated members in the WITH clause of the MDX query. Any private calculations you’ve created for your PivotTable are defined as session calculated members. The MDX is exactly what is sent to the server with one exception. Note: This web service is currently down with no ETA on when it will be back up. Starting with release 0.7.3, you can check the checkbox in the top right in order to send your MDX query to a web service for formatting, thanks to Nick Medveditskov. The MDX tab of the OLAP PivotTable Extensions dialog shows you this MDX. If a PivotTable is performing poorly or returning incorrect numbers, it may be necessary for the Analysis Services administrator to troubleshoot the MDX query which the PivotTable is using. You can also perform Calculation Library maintenance by importing, exporting, and deleting calculations: This allows you to pick any previous calculation you’ve used from a dropdown and add it to the current PivotTable: Since all calculations you define are private to that one PivotTable, OLAP PivotTable Extensions automatically creates a Calculations Library for you which contains all the calculations you create. In addition, certain ad hoc research or prototyping may be more appropriate to be done as calculations private to a PivotTable until they are finalized and are ready to be added to the cube source code. But some calculations like simple ratios or differences may clutter the cube and may be more appropriate if defined in the PivotTable itself. Unfortunately, Excel 2013 removed support for adding MDX calculated measures to PivotTables on Power Pivot models.īest Practice: In order to ensure a single version of the truth, it is a best practice to define important calculations as part of the cube source code. So use OLAP PivotTable Extensions in Excel 2013 for some of the other features it offers, which are detailed below. It even includes a drag and drop field and function list. Thankfully, in Excel 2013 Microsoft does provide a UI for building MDX calculations for the first time. They appear in the Field List pane at the very top under the Values grouping:įor help with advanced calculation properties for these private PivotTable calculations, or for help with MDX expressions, refer to our Calculations Help page. Those calculations appear in the PivotTable just like any other calculations: OLAP PivotTable Extensions let you define your own calculated measures which are private to that particular PivotTable: Adding extra Excel calculations in the cells surrounding the PivotTable has some limitations as they are not part of the PivotTable and can be wiped out if the dimensions of the PivotTable change, and plain Excel calculations must only operate on data visible in the PivotTable. But there is no built-in UI to define your own MDX calculations. The add-in can be launched from the following menu option in the right-click menu for PivotTables:Īny calculated members which are part of the Analysis Service cube on the server can be added to PivotTables. It also adds some new features like searching cubes, configuring default settings, and filtering to a list in your clipboard. OLAP PivotTable Extensions provides an interface for some of this functionality. The Excel API has certain PivotTable functionality which is not exposed in the UI. It supports Analysis Services Tabular, Analysis Services Multidimensional, Azure Analysis Services, and Power BI (both Analyze in Excel and the XMLA endpoint). OLAP PivotTable Extensions is an Excel add-in which extends the functionality of PivotTables on all types Analysis Services cubes.
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