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Status Future consideration
Workspace Planning Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 2, 2023

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Hand-crafted MDX should retain formatting like line breaks and indents

See this idea on ideas.ibm.com

When writing multi-line MDX, the formatting is crucial to being able to read the code, debug and make updates at a later stage.

Saving the MDX without formatting means that the next time it is opened, you need to revisit the code, add in the formatting to make it readable once more.

This not only takes time but introduces risk to any updates, risk to the structure e.g. mixing up bracket positioning that can alter the way results are interpreted etc.


Consider the following MDX query:

TM1SORT({EXCEPT(FILTER(TM1FILTERBYLEVEL(TM1SUBSETALL([Product]) , 0) , [Product].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("Local / Global") = "") , {[Product].[# Product]}),EXCEPT(GENERATE(FILTER(TM1FILTERBYLEVEL(TM1SUBSETALL([Product]) , 0) , [Product].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("Profit Center") <> "") , {STRTOMEMBER("[Product].[" + IIF(STRTOMEMBER("[Product].[" + [Product].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("Profit Center") + "]").FIRSTCHILD.PROPERTIES("Local / Global") <> [Product].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("Local / Global") , [Product].CURRENTMEMBER.NAME , "# Product") + "]")}) , {[Product].[# Product]})} , ASC)


It will take a few minutes for someone opening that to unpack before being able to interpret what the code is actually doing and the likely result.


Consider that queries are used in both the Set editor and Cube viewer. Both areas would need to be enhanced to treat formatting the same way when saving and opening.



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  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 26, 2024

    This would make such a difference to utilising MDX in subsets. It is very frustrating when trying to do something clever like that example and it keeps going back to one line when you commit, which makes it much harder to troubleshoot.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 22, 2024

    Hello Stuart,

    what is the current status for this idea?


    Thank you in advance!

    Vitalij

  • Admin
    Stuart King
    Reply
    |     Jun 20, 2023

    Updated to future consideration

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