Hello,
I have a cube (SQL Server 2008 R2) with multiple business units. Each unit sells unique items.
BusinessUnit is a cube dimension; also all the other cube dimensions (including Item dimension) relate to BusinessUnit dimension and each one of them has BusinessUnitKey attribute.
Let say I have 2 business units: Toronto and Montreal.
Toronto sells the following 5 items: TOR-Item1/TOR-Item2/TOR-Item3/TOR-Item4/TOR-Item5.
Montreal sells the following 6 items: MON-Item1/MON-Item2/MON-Item3/MON-Item4/MON-Item5/MON-Item6.
Our end users are accessing the cube within Excel 2010. I want all cube users to be able to access all cube dimensions. However users from Toronto should be able to only access sales data for business unit = Toronto, and Montreal users should only be able to get sales data for Montreal.
Within cube Roles / Dimension Data I defined attribute security on BusinessUnit cube dimension. I also enabled Visual Totals.
I have no problem restricting Toronto users from seeing Montreal’s sales totals. However all Montreal related Item dimension members are still in the list of available members, no matter which role/BusinessUnit the end user belongs to.
I want Toronto users to be able to see only Toronto Item dimension members in the list: TOR-Item1/TOR-Item2/TOR-Item3/TOR-Item4/TOR-Item5 ...
… and I want to hide all Montreal related dimensions: MON-Item1/MON-Item2/MON-Item3/MON-Item4/MON-Item5/MON-Item6
If I had just a few Item dimension members, I could easily define attribute security on Item dimension within Roles / Dimension Data.
However in real life I actually have thousands of Item dimension members and dozens of other cube dimensions; and most of them are changing member lists on daily basis.
Here is my question: is there any way to show only selected BusinessUnit with ONLY related to this BusinessUnit member other dimensions (given that my every cube dimension has BusinessUnitKey attribute setup).
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
Lana