Is anyone aware of a simple way to export the grid (or similar contents) from the Dimension Usage tab in the cube designer?
I imagine it can be done by parsing the XML definition of the cube, but I'm not much of developer with that sort of thing, and I wondered if there's a simple way or a not-so-simple-but-already-written way to get this. I'm not picky about formatting (spreadsheet, text, whatever -- anything but a bitmap screenshot!).
Does anyone else think this would be a handy self documenting feature?
Thanks,
CJB
Keep an eye on http://www.codeplex.com/bidshelper as that feature should be posted within the next week or two. Basically it's going to spit out a print-friendly version of that dimension usage tab.|||I have an early release of this working on my machine at the moment. It prints out using nested groups rather than the matrix that you see in the report usage tab, but most of the info is in there. If you are interested in having a look at an early version contact me via my blog. Otherwise as Greg says, we should have a release out in the next week or two.|||Thanks, I will keep an eye on that. I poked around on the codeplex projects that you and Mr. Gosbell are working on. I cringed at how much cooler it all is than anything I've put together.
I'm still climbing a .NET learning curve, which wasn't really necessary for me until recently -- as the use of SQL 2005 has begun to mature a bit, and the ease of integrating assemblies into SQL and SSAS has become so slick now, it's too valuable to ignore.
