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    <p>I have an expression string that is pulling in the year from SSAS using a dimension for year and calendar month. I want to modify this so that it automatically defaults to the current year. </p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/5pnFw.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ziaO9.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <pre><code>[Allegation Closed Date].[Year].&amp;[2013] </code></pre> <p>A harder example of this but pretty much the same thing, is where I want to default to current year but use a pre-set month. In the example below it would always be the 1st month of the current year but can be set to any month. The problem I am having is that I cant just default to a current year because this information is being pulled from a table field. </p> <p><code>[Allegation Closed Date].[Calendar Month].&amp;[2013-01]</code></p> <p>I was thinking I could just do something like this and it would work:</p> <p><code>[Allegation Closed Date].[Year].&amp;[Year(Now())]</code></p> <p>I tried a couple different variations on the string above and none of them worked. I have also tried creating a calculated field in the dataset called currentyear and then calling this field with:</p> <p><code>[Allegation Closed Date].[Year].&amp;[CurrentYear]</code></p> <p>Tried the method below and that did not work so I thought I could redesign the query to filter out all years greater than current year. Here is a screenshot of the query designer.</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/GOeR0.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>The query is a little hard to read, it is:</p> <p><code>WITH MEMBER [Measures].[ParameterCaption] AS [Allegation Closed Date].[Year].CURRENTMEMBER.MEMBER_CAPTION MEMBER [Measures].[ParameterValue] AS [Allegation Closed Date].[Year].CURRENTMEMBER.UNIQUENAME MEMBER [Measures].[ParameterLevel] AS [Allegation Closed Date].[Year].CURRENTMEMBER.LEVEL.ORDINAL SELECT {[Measures].[ParameterCaption], [Measures].[ParameterValue], [Measures].[ParameterLevel]} ON COLUMNS , [Allegation Closed Date].[Year].ALLMEMBERS ON ROWS FROM ( SELECT ( { [Allegation Status].[Allegation Status].&amp;[Closed] } ) ON COLUMNS FROM [Allegation Analysis])</code> </p> <p>So I figured out what to enter so it would default to current year and it is:</p> <pre><code>="[Allegation Closed Date].[Year].&amp;["+CSTR(Year(Today))+"]" </code></pre> <p>Still have to figure out what to enter for month but at least I know I am on the right track.</p> <p>Any help is greatly appreciated still on how to format to be year-month.</p>
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