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Tag Archive: Drillthrough

  • Power BI Drill Through using Multiple Data Points

    February 23rd, 2021 in Blog, Power BI

    A drill through in Power BI allows the reader to see secondary data related to the original page with the context of a specific data point applied, for example, drilling through on sales data can display the demographic information of the relevant customers for those sales. One limitation of the drill through functionality is that it only allows users to drill through on a single data point. If more than one is selected, the drill through…

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  • Debug MDX queries using Drillthrough in SSMS

    February 2nd, 2011 in Analysis Services, Blog

    One of the great features of using Excel to browse an SSAS OLAP cube is the drillthrough ability. If you double click on any cell of an OLAP pivot table, Excel will create a new worksheet containing the top 1000 fact records that went to make up the figure in the selected cell. N.B. The limit of 1000 rows can be altered, as per one of my previous blog posts here. This feature is pretty well known, but not many folk realise how easy it is to…

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  • Excel Cube Pivot drillthrough limited to 1000 rows

    March 25th, 2010 in Analysis Services, Blog

    When browsing a cube using Excel 2007, you can drillthrough the measures to display up to 1000 rows of the transaction level source data. I often get asked whether this limit of 1000 rows is configurable – well the good news is yes it is. There is an option in the actions tab of the BIDS cube designer which allows you to specify the maximum rows, but helpfully this is ignored by Excel. Instead, you have to set it in Excel when you create a…

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  • Open SSRS report in a new Window

    December 20th, 2007 in Blog, Reporting Services, SQL Server

    There isn’t yet a built-in facility within Reporting Services to open a report link (i.e. a drillthrough report) in a new browser window or tab, however it isn’t too tricky to get this to work using a bit of javascript. javascript:void(window.open(Destination,’_blank’)) My preferred method is to wrap this up into a custom code function such as Function OpenURL(ByVal URL As String) As String Return…

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