Creating a "Top 10 + Others" dimensional report

Couldn't figure out a better title :-( .

The requirement is to display Top x Products and group all the other products into the "Others" group. If you were using a relational model, you could rank the Products based on Revenue and then use a case statement to identify the Products that need to go into the Others group. But with a dimensional model you would run into issues using a case statement or Rank function.

Steps:

Step 1: Create a Top Prod data item to order the Products based on Revenue and to retrieve the Top 2 Products.

head(order([Sales and Marketing].[Products].[Products].[Product line],[Revenue],desc ),2)

Step 2: Create a Bottom Prod data item to retrieve all the other Products.

except([Sales and Marketing].[Products].[Products].[Product line],[Top Prod])

Step 3: Drag the Revenue data item. Create a Bottom Value data item to calculate the Revenue for "Others" category.

total(currentMeasure within set [Bottom Prod])

Step 4: Create a member for Others that has the Bottom value associated with the Products Dimension.

member([Bottom Value],'Others','Others',[Sales and Marketing].[Products].[Products])

Step 5: Create a Products data item that now includes Top 2 Products and Others.

union([Top Prod],[Others])



Report XML 10.1.1 against Go Sales:

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