Tabular Designer

Introduction

The tabular designer allows you to automatically create reports against Analysis Services cubes in the DAX language.

These are simpler to create than a Grid, and can run against In-Memory or DirectQuery cubes. (Grids can not query DirectQuery Cubes)

Report layout

The tabular report designer is split into three parts.

First is the database browser, which allow you to see the Tables, Columns and Measures which exist.

Next is the report layout section, where you can specify the columns and measures on filters (above the table) and in the table.

Finally is the criteria area. Here you can select the members retrieved, and filter the rows based on measure values.

By dragging columns or measures into the "Filters" and "Selected Columns" areas you can specify the table layout.

Member filters

When selecting a column you can chose only to return rows for specific members.

To select a member, drag it from the left to the right panel. You can also add selections based on Excel cells and XLCubed Slicers.

If you have a lot of values in the columns, you can use the search box to find members you are interested in.

In common with many other areas of XLCubed, these selections can also be driven from Excel cells or a Slicer

Measure filters

If you select a measure you can add a filter to include only values that fit the criteria you want. These can come from an Excel cell if required.