Comments on: SSAS Cube Action: Cells Target type, URL Action type Example

By: John

John — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:45:07 +0000

Ok, I looked for a long time for an answer to this – a pretty crucial functionality for a URL action. The excel!Substitute function does work, but you have to have Excel installed on the server that SSAS is installed on. That’s kind of crazy and MS gets a lot of complaints about it. Not addressed in 2008.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 18 May 2010 18:39:15 +0000

Tim,

I have the same problem as Joe Horton. I’d like to be able for the user to click on the dimension name and hyperlink off to a web page. I don’t want to define the values, but the name of the hierarchy in the dimension. For example, we have an [Account] dimension, and one of the attributes is [Account Category]. I’d like the user to be send “Account Category” to a web page.

Thoughts? (thanks in advance)

By: Muhammed

Muhammed — Wed, 05 May 2010 10:01:30 +0000

Thanks for your help Tim I tried that too but also does not work. But no need to worry, it is no longer required for me to do that.

Thanks!

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:33:45 +0000

We spent some time poking around on this one recently with Tim Peterson and while vba!Replace isn't accessable to MDX, excel!Substitute is available, so the following should work for you:


"http://www.google.com/?q=" + excel!Substitute([Menu Items].[Menu Item].currentmember.name, "&", "%26")

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HP052092861033.aspx

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 13:46:53 +0000

Yeah, I poked around a bit – looks like MDX doesn’t have access to Replace(). Have you considered adding a calculated column to the data source view that does the REPLACE() in T-SQL and then adding that calculated column as a member property to the [Menu Item] attribute? If you went that route, you would change

[Menu Items].[Menu Item].currentmember.name
to
[Menu Items].[Menu Item].currentmember.Properties("urlSafeName")

By: Muhammed

Muhammed — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:07:33 +0000

I tried all that also, still nothing happends…

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:57:07 +0000

I see a space in your example between the Replace and the opening ( – there shouldn’t be a space there. Also check to make sure your double quotes are straight double quotes and not the fancy/slanted quotes (this is often a problem if you cut/paste from places).

By: Muhammed

Muhammed — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:46:42 +0000

Nope it still doing the same. I get no option to google search it.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:36:45 +0000

Try:


"http://www.google.com/?q=" + vba!Replace([Menu Items].[Menu Item].currentmember.name, "&", "%26")

If you're still having problems, I can test it out on an instance.

By: Muhammed

Muhammed — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:24:34 +0000

Hey Tim

Thanks for the reply. Im trying what you suggested but it does not seem to work. It does not even give me a option to google search it.
This is what I have:

“http://www.google.com/?q=” + Replace ([Menu Items].[Menu Item].currentmember.name, “&”, “%26″)