Mastering OLAP Reporting: Prototype KPIs in Reporting Services - Page 5August 21, 2006 Procedure Prototype KPIs in Reporting Services Add a New, Blank Report Let's create a basic OLAP report that contains data upon which we will base examples of KPIs – KPIs we can generate quickly and solely within Reporting Services, to fit the hypothetical business requirement we have outlined. We won't spend a great deal of time with formatting and other nuances of presentation – the point here is to illustrate a conceptual option for generating KPIs on a limited scale. 1. In Solution Explorer, right-click the Reports folder, within the RS032_Simple_KPIs project that we added earlier 2. Select Add from the context menu that appears. 3. Select New Item ... from the context menu that cascades from the first, as depicted in Illustration 32.
The Add New Item dialog appears. 4. Click Report in the Templates pane, as required, to select it. 5. Type the following into the Name box at the foot of the dialog: RS032_KPI_Matrix 6. Click the Add button in the bottom right corner of the dialog, which should appear as shown in Illustration 33.
RS032_KPI_Matrix.rdl, currently a blank canvas, opens within the design environment, and appears in the Solution Explorer, as depicted in Illustration 34.
Create a Dataset to Support KPIs Let's create a basic Dataset, upon which to base our new OLAP report. 1. Click the Data tab within Report Designer, to open the Data view. 2. Using the "down arrow" button to the right of the Dataset selector, atop the Data tab, click <New Dataset...>, as shown in Illustration 35.
The Dataset dialog appears. 3. Type the following into the Name box at the foot of the dialog: RS032_KPI_Support The Dataset dialog appears, as depicted in Illustration 36.
4. Click OK to accept the new Dataset definition, and to dismiss the Dataset dialog. The MDX Query Designer opens in Design view. 5. Within the Metadata pane to the left of the design area, expand the Sales Territory dimension by clicking the "+" sign to its immediate left. 6. Expand the Sales Territory hierarchy that appears underneath the dimension (bottom item within the dimension). The Sales Territory hierarchy expands, exposing its members within the Metadata tree, as partially shown in Illustration 37.
7. Drag the newly exposed Sales Territory Country into the Results pane of the Dataset design area, as depicted in Illustration 38.
Sales Territory Country appears as a column heading in the design area. Let's add additional data fields that we will need in our query. 8. Within the Metadata pane, once again, expand the Date dimension. 9. Expand the Fiscal folder that appears within the Date dimension. 10. Expand the Fiscal hierarchy that appears within the Fiscal folder (bottom item within the folder). 11. Drag the newly exposed Fiscal Year into the Results pane area, dropping it to the right of the Sales Territory Country column, as shown in Illustration 39.
Fiscal Year now appears as a second column heading in the Results pane area. Let's add the measures we need to support the required KPIs. 12. Within the Metadata pane, expand Measures. 13. Expand the Internet Sales folder that appears within Measures. 14. Drag the following two measures (actually calculations), in the order shown, into the Results pane area: Internet Gross Profit Margin Growth in Customer Base Drop each measure, one after the other, to the right of the columns already in place, as depicted in Illustration 40.
15. In the Filter pane, located in the upper right corner of the Query Designer, select Date via the Dimension column selector button. 16. Select Date.Fiscal Year in the Hierarchy column, to the immediate right of the Dimension column, within the Filter pane. 17. Select Equal in the Operator column. 18. Select FY 2004, via the checkbox within the selector for the Filter Expression column, as shown in Illustration 41.
19. Click OK to accept the setting for the Filter Expression and to close the selector. The Query Designer appears, with our settings, as depicted in Illustration 42.
NOTE: If the Results pane has not populated, as shown in the illustration above, click the Execute Query ("!") button in the toolbar atop the Query Designer, shown circled in Illustration 43.
We now have the 2004 data we need to support our immediate KPI requirement in the steps that follow. While our requirement for this practice session is, of course, quite simple, we are aware that we can support more elaborate requirements by adding parameterization and other features, both here and elsewhere within Reporting Services. |
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