Re: Office Excel Add-in for Analysis Services

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do you find it reliable or full of bugs ? Will there be a new version with
more functionality or will there be something else ? I like it but miss some
(small) features, and have some bugs...

/J

"Michael Vardinghus" wrote:

> However you have action support, drillthrough and free form....
>
> "/jerome k" <jeromek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:05DC0242-CEFB-4519-9020-23D36700D20D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've installed the MS Office Excel Add-in for SQL Server Analysis
> Services.
> > Is there anyone with "real" experiences from this add-in? Will there be
> any
> > new "releases" (now 6/2/2004) ? Is performance better compared to standard
> > excel OLAP pivottables ?
> >
> > I found that some functionality from the normal Excel pivottables ar
> missing
> > (cancel query, groups, multiselect in page filters). The server side
> > formatting does not seem to work (at least not as shown in AM). Is default
> > member working (nor in my test) ? Some more functionality is wanted;
> custom
> > expressions are limited (filtering rows/columns allows only one member to
> be
> > selected as a "starting member" and, more important, members from only one
> > level to be returned). Also allowing what-is analysis (writeback) on not
> > leaf-level members is useful. I also felt the add-in as a bit "shaky",
> > sometimes things worked only after restarting Excel, ^ and + where left in
> > cells after removing the report...
>
>
>
.

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