Hi Virat,

I'm not sure what you have in mind in terms of debugging. For scheduling an export of IRIS BI results to a PDF, I would recommend looking at the Pivot Subscriptions app, which is available here on Open Exchange. This tool allows you to export individual pivots, not dashboards, but you could schedule multiple pivots to be exported (and emailed) on the schedule that you need. The other option that comes to mind is %DeepSee.Utils:%ExportPDFToFile(), but that method is for exporting a query's results; I would expect Pivot Subscriptions to be much more useful for your situation.

Hi Ephraim,

It looks to me like you have defined the Region level with a source expression of "sourceRegion". The source expression will be interpreted as an ObjectScript expression to be computed for each record when you build the cube. In this case, it is being interpreted as a literal string, so the value of the level for every fact is "sourceRegion".

Do you have a property in your source class called Region or sourceRegion? Assuming your source class has a property called Region, you can select the Property option in the level details (above the Expression option), and enter Region (without quotes) there. This is equivalent to using the Expression option and entering %source.Region (again, no quotes).

If you are still having trouble with this level after trying this, please feel free to open a WRC issue to get support.

Calculated measures (and other calculated members) are evaluated at runtime whether they are defined in the cube definition or elsewhere. (Measures other than calculated measures are evaluated at build time and their values are stored in the fact table, but I don't think that would be suitable for what Nick wanted to do here.)

- provide 2023.1.x tag which will follow the latest minor version

It's not clear to me whether or not this is already the plan for the new Major.Minor tags. For instance, when IRIS 2024.1.1 is released, will it be at containers.intersystems.com/intersystems/iris:2024.1 (where IRIS 2024.1.0 images would likely have existed previously) or containers.intersystems.com/intersystems/iris:2024.1.1? @Bob Kuszewski can you please clarify?

You might be interested in using IRIS BI for this. Once you have created IRIS BI dashboards, you can embed them in your application - there is some documentation on this here. You might also be interested in the built-in Activity Monitor Dashboard for productions, if you haven't taken a look at it before.

Hi Jacinto,

If these values can be determined at the time you build or synchronize the cube, you could create a level (in Architect) with a source expression that uses $SELECT to determine the value based on the logic you described.

I think this might be closer to what you have in mind than using calculated members - you could, for example, display the four categories you are mapping values to on rows just by putting the level on rows. (If you use calculated members, I think you'd want to define one member for each of the categories you're mapping values to.)

Hi Jenna,

I think the %DeepSee.Utils:%GetMDXFromPivot() method may be helpful here. (The class reference is here, though I think the first line of the description is confusing.)

If the pivot is saved with the filters you want in effect (e.g. with the &[2023] member already selected), you can get the MDX and execute it directly by passing a result set and pExecute = 1 to %GetMDXFromPivot():

SAMPLES>set rs = ##class(%DeepSee.ResultSet).%New()
SAMPLES>set pivot = "Filter Examples/One Member Filter"
SAMPLES>set mdx = ##class(%DeepSee.Utils).%GetMDXFromPivot(pivot,.sc,1,,.rs)
SAMPLES>write sc, !, mdx
1
SELECT NON EMPTY NONEMPTYCROSSJOIN([GenD].[H1].[Gender].Members,[Measures].[%Count]) ON 0,NON EMPTY {[DiagD].[H1].[Diagnoses].Members,[AgeD].[All Patients]} ON 1 FROM [PATIENTS] %FILTER [AllerD].[H1].[Allergies].&[wheat]
SAMPLES>do rs.%Print()
                       Patient Count        Patient Count
1 None                             23                   16
2 asthma                            3                    4
3 diabetes                          1                    2
4 All Patients                     27                   21
 
If the pivot table is not saved with all the filters that you want, you can use %GetMDXFromPivot() just to get the MDX query text, then append a %FILTER clause to it (make sure to include a space between the original query and the %FILTER) and pass the modified text to a %DeepSee.ResultSet object to be prepared and executed:

SAMPLES>set pivot = "Chart Demos/Bar Chart"
SAMPLES>set mdx = ##class(%DeepSee.Utils).%GetMDXFromPivot(pivot,.sc)
SAMPLES>write sc, !, mdx
1
SELECT NON EMPTY [Measures].[Amount Sold] ON 0,NON EMPTY [DateOfSale].[Actual].[YearSold].Members ON 1 FROM [HOLEFOODS]
SAMPLES>set mdx = mdx_" %FILTER [Product].[P1].[Product Category].&[Cereal]"
SAMPLES>write mdx
SELECT NON EMPTY [Measures].[Amount Sold] ON 0,NON EMPTY [DateOfSale].[Actual].[YearSold].Members ON 1 FROM [HOLEFOODS] %FILTER [Product].[P1].[Product Category].&[Cereal]
SAMPLES>set rs = ##class(%DeepSee.ResultSet).%New()
SAMPLES>write rs.%PrepareMDX(mdx)
1
SAMPLES>write rs.%Execute()
1
SAMPLES>do rs.%Print()
                                   Revenue
1 2017                               $40.69
2 2018                               $59.65
3 2019                              $103.13
4 2020                               $40.70
5 2021                               $99.96
6 2022                               $68.35

There are a couple of ways you might be able to do this, but the simplest one is probably to use the %NOT MDX function. You can write a filter that excludes one member by appending .%NOT to the member spec:

%FILTER [Demographics].[H10].[Citizenship].&[USA].%NOT

If you want to write a filter that excludes multiple individual members of one or more levels, you can filter by a tuple of the members that you want to exclude. Append .%NOT to each of the member specs, and do not use %OR:

%FILTER ([Demographics].[H10].[Citizenship].&[USA].%NOT,[Demographics].[H10].[Citizenship].&[U.S.A].%NOT,[Demographics].[H10].[Citizenship].&[US].%NOT)

I'd like some clarification on the prompt "Using %MDX and %KPI instead of Subject Area in IRIS Analytics". I don't typically think of %MDX and %KPI as alternatives to creating/using a subject area in the way that the prompt implies - is the intention just to have an article that explains how to use %MDX and %KPI, or is there a specific use case that you are hoping it will explain?
edit: Doesn't look like I'm eligible to participate, but maybe someone else wants to write this...

Hi Evgenii,

If the list of branches will not change over time (or will change very infrequently, so that you can manually update your cube model when it does), you might consider manually specifying the members for the Branch level, as documented here.

If you do this, keep in mind that the Analyzer adds the NON EMPTY keyword to many MDX queries by default, which will prevent members with no data from being shown in the resulting pivot table. You may need to remove this keyword from MDX queries where you want the members with no data to show up.

Hi Evgeny,

Please take a look at the documentation on custom actions. You will need to create a KPI class and define the actions you want to make available in it. You can then add widget controls that correspond to these actions. For a real-world example that includes an action to rebuild a cube, take a look at this class from the CubeEventMonitor.

I think you know this, but to clarify for other readers - this allows developers to write any methods they would like and end-users to execute the defined methods at any time. It doesn't allow end-users to define and execute arbitrary methods of their own.

Hi Lee,

It's not obvious to me what is going on here - ".&[NOW-1]" is certainly expected to work. I think it would be a good idea to open a support issue so that we can help you with this.