Expand Children Below Parent
1. Click on an aggregate member (e.g., 1st Quarter).
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2. In the Excel ribbon, go to the PowerOLAP
tab and in the Settings control group, click the Options command
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The following dialog box appears:
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Notes
Changes are activated when a new Slice has been opened.
3. By choosing the Expand Children Below Parent checkbox and clicking OK, then expanding the aggregate member, the children of the Hierarchy are listed below the parent as shown in the figure below.
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Indent Children on Rows
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When this option is enabled, when you double click or expand the 1st Quarter hierarchy, the children members appears indented as displayed below:
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Aggregate Label Formatting
Choosing this option causes the Change button to become enabled.
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By clicking the Change button, the following dialog box appears:
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An Example of a Slice with formatted aggregate labels is shown below.
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Detail Label Formatting
By clicking on this checkbox, the Change button becomes enabled.
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By clicking the Change, button the following dialog box appears:
An Example of a formatted detail label is shown below. Note: In this case the Row labels have been converted to Column headers.
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Use OLAPReadWrite formulas
By choosing the Use OLAPReadWrite formulas the path '=OLAPReadWrite' will be activated upon opening a new Slice.
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See example path screen shot below:
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Center Column Labels
This is simply a formatting option that centers column labels on the Excel spreadsheet. See option menu below:
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Define Servers
Clicking on Define Servers button brings up the following Add Server dialog box.
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You can add MDB servers for selection, for the client to access the server databases.
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Hide Nested Members
Selecting this option "Hide Nested Members" hides the Members from display.
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See the difference in the succeeding screenshots below where the other uses the Hide Nested Member option and the other does not:
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Example Slice with Nested Members
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Example Slice with Nested members and using the Hide Nested Members option
Suppress Message On Long Calculations
This will stop the waiting on server message from coming up when have a long calc.
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"Leave PowerOLAP Add-Ins installed after closing sheets" Option:
When this option is selected, it improves speed performance when opening published Excel worksheets.