Hi Colin,

It's been a while since I used them, but I think POST /Info/Filters returns some information on dimensions/hierarchies/levels, and POST /Info/FilterMembers returns information on the members of a level. If you need metadata on properties specifically, I'm not sure if that is included. I don't think we have information on namespaces as part of the REST API for IRIS BI, but maybe someone has a suggestion of other ways to get that kind of information about an IRIS instance over REST. Anyway, I'd recommend taking a look at those two /Info services, and possibly opening a WRC issue if you find that they don't provide what you need.

Hi Jenna,

Is something like this what you have in mind?

SAMPLES>set relatedFilters("[DateOfSale].[Actual].[YearSold]") = "&[2021]"
 
SAMPLES>set sc = ##class(%DeepSee.Utils).%GetDimensionMembers("HOLEFOODS","[DateOfSale].[Actual].[MonthSold]","filter",.members,,.memberClass,.relatedFilters)
 
SAMPLES>zwrite members                                                         
members(1)=$lb("[NOW]","NOW","NOW","NOW")
members(2)=$lb("[Jan-2021]","Jan-2021","202101","202101","")
members(3)=$lb("[Feb-2021]","Feb-2021","202102","202102","")
members(4)=$lb("[Mar-2021]","Mar-2021","202103","202103","")
members(5)=$lb("[Apr-2021]","Apr-2021","202104","202104","")
members(6)=$lb("[May-2021]","May-2021","202105","202105","")
members(7)=$lb("[Jun-2021]","Jun-2021","202106","202106","")
members(8)=$lb("[Jul-2021]","Jul-2021","202107","202107","")
members(9)=$lb("[Aug-2021]","Aug-2021","202108","202108","")
members(10)=$lb("[Sep-2021]","Sep-2021","202109","202109","")
members(11)=$lb("[Oct-2021]","Oct-2021","202110","202110","")
members(12)=$lb("[Nov-2021]","Nov-2021","202111","202111","")
members(13)=$lb("[Dec-2021]","Dec-2021","202112","202112","")

I'll admit I'm not completely sure why the NOW member is coming back in this case, since there shouldn't be any data with a year of 2021 and a month of NOW, but other than that I think this may be what you were describing.

Hi David,

When you selected the "Sort members" option in the pivot table, did you do it from the gear icon next to the "Rows" header, or from the one next to the specific level that you had put on rows? On IRIS 2019.1, I'm finding that the sort order remains when I drill down if I do the former, but not if I do the latter.

The KPI doesn't need to be the data source for the widget. You can specify the KPI class as the actionClass for a cube (this is an attribute of a <cube> element) and then the actions in it will be available to pivots based on that cube. That will in turn make those actions available as controls on widgets whose data source is a pivot based on that cube.

If the data source for a widget isn't a pivot or a KPI, I'm not sure whether it's possible to use custom actions on that widget.

Hi Lee,

The "range" language may be a bit confusing, so to be clear - %TIMERANGE() returns a single member expression.

I'm on a different version, but COUNT(%TIMERANGE(...)) appears to work for me, and it returns 1 (which is expected because %TIMERANGE() returns a single member). In general, member expressions like the result of %TIMERANGE() can also be interpreted as set expressions containing a single item, so I would expect COUNT(%TIMERANGE(...)) and the like to be valid MDX.

I'd suggest opening a WRC issue for this as well - it's great to post questions like this on the Developer Community when you're uncertain about the expected behavior, but once we've determined that the behavior you're seeing is unexpected, there is more that we can do to investigate and help you in the context of a support issue.

Hi Lawrence,

The shortest build frequency that the Cube Registry allows you to specify is once per day.

Hi Lawrence,

The .DFI files that define the pivots and dashboards will themselves always be found in the "Other" branch of the workspace due to their type. However, it's possible to package pivots, dashboards, and other DeepSee folder items into classes as described here. The resulting .CLS file(s) would be found in the "Classes" branch.

After looking at this some more, there are another couple of suggestions I would make:

- If you want to display each member of the [Gerencia].[Gerencia].[Gerencia] level in its own row, you should use [Gerencia].[Gerencia].[Gerencia].MEMBERS as the set expression on rows. Your current syntax will return a single row.

- It's unnecessary to wrap the set expressions on rows and columns in parentheses. (You may, of course, need to use parentheses in these expressions if they involve functions such as NONEMPTYCROSSJOIN(level1.MEMBERS,level2.MEMBERS), but an expression like [Gerencia].[Gerencia].[Gerencia].MEMBERS by itself doesn't need them.)

- If you aren't already using it, you may find it helpful to use the Analyzer, as this gives you an interface to create pivot tables to display the data you want without having to write the MDX from scratch and worry about its syntax. When you create or modify a pivot table in the Analyzer, the underlying MDX query is generated, and is executed either automatically (by default) or when you refresh the pivot. If your goal is to create pivot tables and dashboards, you may not need to interact with the query text at all if you don't want to; if you're running queries programmatically, you can create a pivot table and then view the MDX that was generated (click on the pencil-and-paper icon above the "Columns" box) and use it as a template for your queries.

Hi Lawrence,

You can create cube relationships as documented here, which will allow you to reference data in one cube from another cube (if records in the source class of one cube are related to records in the source class of the other). However, if I'm understanding your question correctly, that may not be the best approach in your case.

For one thing, I'm not sure why you have created two cubes instead of one cube with some additional elements. Is each of these items you're discussing a single record (i.e. a fact in your cube)? Or is it a property of each record (i.e. a model element in your cube)? If it's the former, you could add properties to your existing levels as necessary, whose values could be the human-readable names, generated/fetched if necessary by source expressions. If it's the latter, you could add display names to these elements in your cube definition.

It sounds to me like it might make sense to open a WRC issue to work with support on these questions, since they're fairly specific to the cubes you are creating - please feel free to do that if you'd like, and one of my colleagues or I will be able to work with you on this.

Hi Laura,

After installing the JRE, I believe you need to restart either the Caché instance you're using or the server you just installed it on before you can use it to export PDFs from DeepSee - have you tried doing that? I haven't had a chance yet to test and figure out which is necessary (based on the fact that you can use the JRE from the command line, restarting the instance might be sufficient), but if it's convenient to try that, it might help.

The place to specify the sort order for a level is in the cube definition. In the Architect, open the cube you are using, select the level that you want to change the sort order for, and look at the Details panel for that level (on the right-hand side of the Architect page). In the "Sort option" dropdown, choose "asc numeric", and then compile your cube definition. (It is not necessary to rebuild the cube after making this change.) You should then be able to refresh the Analyzer, put the same level on rows, and see that it sorts in ascending numeric order.

Hi Lawrence,

Here's a general outline of the steps to create a DeepSee dashboard, starting from data that is somewhere on your system but not yet in a DeepSee cube:

- Get the data you want to use into a persistent class, referred to as your source class. Depending on what you are doing with the data that comes in via your REST service, you may already have such a class, or you may need to create one and store a copy of your data there after it comes in.

- Use the DeepSee Architect to define a cube based on your source class. This will allow you to specify which properties of your source class you want available for use in pivots and dashboards. You can then compile and build your cube, which will create a fact table (and several other tables) to store an indexed copy of the data you have specified. There is documentation on defining cube models here.

- Use the DeepSee Analyzer to create one or more pivot tables that display data from your cube. There is documentation on creating pivot tables here.

- In the DeepSee User Portal, create a new dashboard and add one or more widgets to it. For each widget, specify a pivot table as its data source, and then customize the widget to display a table or chart, adding any filters or other controls that you want to give users access to. There is documentation on creating dashboards here. (It sounds like you may already be familiar with this step, once you've created a pivot, but I'm including it for completeness.)

For some of these steps, there are alternative options to the ones I've mentioned here, but these are the most common options and I would recommend using them to start out (and really whenever possible). Please let me know if you're having problems with the specifics of some part of this.

Hi Hamza,

I don't believe there is an MDX function that works the same way as ISCROSSFILTERED(). If you'd like to describe what you hope to do using this function, I'll let you know if I can think of a practical way to do this with MDX. To identify whether a query is using filters on the cube in question or a related cube, I would probably try to get the MDX query text and parse it, looking for %FILTER and WHERE clauses, but that would have to be done from outside of the query itself (e.g. in ObjectScript).

When I try to play that video using Firefox it stops at that point (without displaying any error messages, so your problem may be different). But reloading the page and clicking to a point a few seconds later seems to work for me - if you haven't tried that, it might allow you to pick up just after the place where it stopped.

It plays without stopping in Internet Explorer.

For reference, this seems to be the video:
http://video.intersystems.com/video/Video.Pages.VideoLibrary.cls?video=2...

Hi Neerav,

I believe the correct syntax is to just use & (not &amp;) for the ampersand before each parameter, and to use %26 (not &amp;) for the ampersand before the member key. So your URL would be something like

....dashboard&SETTINGS=FILTER:[Account].[H1].[Account].%26[1];&NOTITLE=1

Please give this a try and let me know whether it works.

Hi Tuan,

Could you please be more specific about what your question is? Are you trying to modify the row spec of a pivot table and having trouble getting it to work as expected?

Hi Karthik,

You could try creating a custom action to do something similar to this. There is documentation on custom actions here. For example, I believe you could define a KPI class with a custom action that opens a web page  with the information you want to display in a new window. You could then add a control to your widget to run the custom action when clicked. If you do this, you can add your own custom icon for the control, as described here, and it will be displayed with the other controls, below the widget title.

Hi Karthik,

Can you provide any more information this error? What are you trying to do in DeepSee when the error occurs, and what other information is in the error message?

It might be easier to help you with this error if you open a WRC issue. Please feel free to do that by emailing support@intersystems.com or calling +1 617 621-0700 if you think that would be helpful.

Hi José,

Yes, the filterSpec URL parameter is required, according to the documentation here.

It looks to me like the /Info/FilterMembers service expects to get a single level (of a specified dimension and hierarchy) as the filterSpec. Although the level names are the same for the two LevelCs, they are unrelated as far as the REST service is concerned because they are in different dimensions and hierarchies.

I don't know exactly what you are trying to do with this combined list of filter members, since it may not be an accurate list of the members of either level if some items appear in one but not the other. In terms of creating the list, though, you could try running /Info/FilterMembers once for each of the two levels, and writing code to combine the result sets while removing duplicates.

Hi Jaqueline,

This Developer Community post has some information that you may find useful: https://community.intersystems.com/post/deepsee-period-date-vs-same-peri...

It deals specifically with comparing results for this year to date versus the same time period in the previous year, but you might be able to apply some of the same concepts when writing your MDX expressions. Let me know if you need clarification, or if this doesn't enable you to make the calculations you intend.

Best,

Sam Duncan