MSSQL Server Reporting Services : Mastering OLAP Reporting: Ad Hoc TopCount and BottomCount Parameters - Page 3May 16, 2005 Considerations and CommentsBefore we alter the FoodMart Sales cube to support our hierarchical date prompts, we will create a copy of the cube. Creating a clone of the sample Sales cube means we can make changes to our cube while retaining the original sample in a pristine state - perhaps for other purposes, such as using it to accompany relevant sections of the Books Online, and other documentation, in learning more about Analysis Services in general. (Once we finish with our structural changes to the clone cube, we will create a copy of the Foodmart Sales report, for the same reasons.) Before we can work with a clone of the Foodmart Sales report, we need to create a Reporting Services project in the Visual Studio.Net 2003 Report Designer environment. Making the enhancements to the report to add the requested functionality can be done easily within the Reporting Services Report Designer environment. Working with a copy of the report will allow us the luxury of freely exploring our options, and leave us a working example of the specific approach we took, to which we can refer in our individual business environments. This approach also preserves the original sample in a pristine state - for the same reasons we do so for the Sales sample cube. If you already have a project within which you like to work with training or development objects, you can simply skip the Create a Reporting Services Project section. If the sample FoodMart 2000 Analysis Services database or the Foodmart Sales report was not created / installed as part of the initial installation of the associated application, if either was removed prior to your beginning this article, or if either or both applications have yet to be installed, etc., see the respective Books Online or other documentation for the necessary procedures to prepare for the exercises that follow. Hands-On ProcedurePreparation Create a Clone of the Foodmart Sales Cube Let's first create a copy of the existing FoodMart Sales cube to provide a "disposable" work environment. 1. Open Analysis Manager. 2. Expand the Analysis Server folder in the management console. 3. Expand the Analysis Server with which you are working by clicking the "+" sign to its left. 4. Expand the FoodMart 2000 database. 5. Expand the Cubes folder inside the FoodMart 2000 database. 6. Right-click the Sales cube. 7. Click Copy from the context menu that appears, as shown in Illustration 1.
8. Right-click the Cubes folder. 9. Select Paste from the context menu that appears, as depicted in Illustration 2.
The Duplicate Name dialog appears. 10. Rename the new cube as follows: Param_Support_Sales
The Duplicate Name dialog appears as shown in Illustration 3.
11. Click OK to create the clone cube. The new Param_Support_Sales cube appears in the tree as depicted in Illustration 4.
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