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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Cognos Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 9, 2015

RELATED IDEAS

Add macro current year in Default Selection property of Value Prompt object

In Cognos 10.2.1 Fixpack 6 in Report Studio:
1. Using Crosstab I can add the following member year 2015 in Row:
[Cube].[Year_Dimension].[Year_Hierarchy].[Level_Year]->:[TM].[Cube].[Year_Dimension].[@MEMBER].[2015]
2. But if I want to add "current year" member (so member year 2015 is going to change to year 2016 at new year) then I can use macro in Query Calculation:
[Cube].[Year_Dimension].[Year_Hierarchy].[Level_Year]->:[TM].[Cube].[Year_Dimension].[@MEMBER].#'[' + timestampMask ( $current_timestamp, 'yyyy' ) + ']'#

This works excellent. But now look very similar problem in Value Prompt object:
4. Add Value Prompt object to report and set Year_Level in Value Prompt wizard.
5. Click on Value Prompt and from Properties, General section select Default Selection.
6. Add member from step 1 into default selection and report works fine.
7. Instead of static member from step 6 add macro from step 2. And this is not going to work.

Please add "current year", "current month" option to Default Selection using macro, just like in the crosstab step 2 above.

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