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James is currently a Senior Business Intelligence Architect/Developer and has over 20 years of IT experience. James started his career as a software developer, then became a DBA 12 years ago, and for the last five years he has been working extensively with Business Intelligence using the SQL Server BI stack (SSAS, SSRS, and SSIS). James has been at times a permanent employee, consultant, contractor, and owner of his own business. All these experiences along with continuous learning has helped James to develop many successful data warehouse and BI projects. James has earned the MCITP Business Developer 2008, MCITP Database Administrator 2008, and MCITP Database Developer 2008, and has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering. His blog is at .

Using a Display Folder for a SSAS calculation

I was having a problem getting the display folder to work for a calculation in SSAS.  Turns out, it will only work if you select “Measures” as the Parent hierarchy:

The display folder (“Acct Calc – Supply Chain”) shows up correctly when browsing the cube, under “Measures”:

However, if you select something other than “Measures” as the Parent hierarchy, in this example the “SupplyChain” hierarchy under the “Account” dimension:

The display folder does not show up.  Instead, the calculation appears under “Members” under the “SupplyChain” hierarchy under the “Account” dimension:

Of course, you should only use “Measures” as the parent hierarchy if you want to define a calculated measure.  If you are creating a calculated member, then you should select a dimension and hierarchy in the selected cube for the “Parent hierarchy”.  It would be nice if a future version of SSAS allowed you to create a folder for calculated members.  See the discussion Display folders for calculated members for work-arounds.

Note that this applies to the following client tools: SSAS internal browser, ProClarity, and Excel.  There are some client tools that may support the display folder for calculated members.

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