Newbie question - Getting the headcount at the beginning of the year using OpeningPeriod

Hello,

Here's a newbie question that I am having a heck of a time figuring out...

I want to return only the balance at the begining of the year. My time dimension has a hierarchy as follows:
-Fiscal Year
--Month
---Period

I then created (from the template) a Calculated Member that does return the number. However, as you can see, it is only from Fiscal Year 2006, the first period (Period Number = 1)

Aggregate
(
OPENINGPERIOD([Dim Row Date Vw].[FiscalYear - EnglishMonth].[Period Number],
[Dim Row Date Vw].[FiscalYear - EnglishMonth].[FiscalYear].&[2006].&[1]),
[Measures].[ACTIVE]
)

How do I change this so it pulls from the first period for each year, at the beginning of that year

Thank you for the help.



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Newbie question - Getting the headcount at the beginning of the year using OpeningPeriod

  • Lawrence 007

    Just change the AggregationFunction of the measure from Sum to FirstChild - and this should be enough. It won't add up along Periods, but will return the first day for the current period.

  • Dexter

    Something so simple, of course I didn't see it.

    Thank you so much for the help.


  • bkejser

    Mosha,

    Thank you for the information. I do have AS2005 EE, but how exactly do I use a semiaditive measure to get the count of just Period Number 1 from each year

    I thought that the semiadditive would still add up each Period, so I don't know exactly how to refer to just the Period Number 1.

    Thank you for the help.


  • spelger

    If you are using AS2005 EE, you may consider using semiadditive measure aggregation function FirstChild which should do exactly what you need.

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