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May 11, 2010 at 03:25 PM

Input Controls / Hierarchy

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Hi,

We're looking into upgrade Service Pack 2. One of the nice new functionalities in Web Intelligence are input controls. When playing around with them a bit, we found them very useful to apply different selection filters on several objects, each belonging to a different dimension.

When we wanted to use input controls to sort of "select down into" a hierarchy within 1 dimension (so several object related to each other in a hierarchy), we found a selection on an object at eg. the top level of the hierarchy does not apply to the list of value of the input control for the lower levels (objects).

For example, dimension month.

Hierarchy: Semester > Quarter > Month

3 input controls on 3 objects: Semester, Quarter, Month

Selecting eg. Q1, does not limit the list of values of input control for Month to Jan, Feb, Mar

Instead all list of months need to be scrolled

This is unfortunate. For the above example, this is not that big an issue since the list of values in any case only has 12 entries. For other hierarchies however ...

Are we overlooking something? Can we get to above functionality from Input Controls?

If not in SP2, is this planned for the future? eg. SP3?

Thanks for feedback!

Raf