Showing posts with label explorer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label explorer. Show all posts

Monday, March 26, 2012

Entities disappear from Report Builder Explorer when datasource is a cube

I have scoured the internet looking for someone who has run into this issue with no such luck!

Product: Reporting Services 2005
Analysis Services 2005

Our users use Report Builder as an ad-hoc report tool. Data sources for Report Builder come from Report Servers and Analysis Servers.

I have run into issues where a user will select a source for their report that is based on an AS cube. When they select an attribute (field) from a selected entity in the Report Builder Explorer and drop it on the canvas, all entities except the one the field was selected from disappear.

For example:

A cube has a fact table called "Annual Income" with dimension of employee and demographics. In Report Builder, the entities would be listed in the left hand Report Builder Explorer window as

Annual Income
Employee
Demographics

If I select attributes from Employee or Annual Income, as usual, you will see the related hierarchies of the remaining entities. However, if I select an attribute from Demographics, then the Annual Income and Employee entities just disappear and all I can see is the Demographics entity and its attributes.

Has anyone run into this and if so, any ideas? This is becoming extremely frustrating. I have deleted and rebuild cubes, individual dimensions, and everything else I can think of.

Your responses are appreciated,
Scott




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Friday, February 17, 2012

Enterprise Manager - Meta Data Error

When trying to browse my meta data repository in EM, i
get the following error:
Internet Explorer Script Error
Line: 1
Char: 138
Error: Cannot use parentheses when calling a sub
Code: 0
URL: res://C:\Program%20Files\Microsoft%20SQL%20Server\80
\Tools\Binn\Resources\1033\sqlmmc.rll/repgeneral.htm
Do you want to continue running scripts on this page?
--
After answering yes, you are taken to the next screen and
are not able to update information in the Description and
Comments fields. Everyone else in my group has this
problem too. SQL 2000, sp3. IE 6 sp 1. Now, If i go to
an old machine with SQL 2000 sp 3, IE 5, then I can use
this page with no problems.
Has anyone else run into this. Does Microsoft have a
fix? What should I do other than uninstall IE 6 and
install IE 5. <-- Doesn't sound like a good solution to
me.
Thanks.There's probably a better answer to this, but...
this sounds similair to an issue when using taskpad view. You sometimes get
a similiar message...
in that case if you switch to "large fonts" view and then back to task pad
it works. You might try that. Sorry this wasn't more helpful...
--
Brian
"Brian Mitchell" <brianwmitchell@.hotamail.com> wrote in message
news:059d01c38d9b$976e9580$a001280a@.phx.gbl...
> When trying to browse my meta data repository in EM, i
> get the following error:
> Internet Explorer Script Error
> Line: 1
> Char: 138
> Error: Cannot use parentheses when calling a sub
> Code: 0
> URL: res://C:\Program%20Files\Microsoft%20SQL%20Server\80
> \Tools\Binn\Resources\1033\sqlmmc.rll/repgeneral.htm
> Do you want to continue running scripts on this page?
> --
> After answering yes, you are taken to the next screen and
> are not able to update information in the Description and
> Comments fields. Everyone else in my group has this
> problem too. SQL 2000, sp3. IE 6 sp 1. Now, If i go to
> an old machine with SQL 2000 sp 3, IE 5, then I can use
> this page with no problems.
> Has anyone else run into this. Does Microsoft have a
> fix? What should I do other than uninstall IE 6 and
> install IE 5. <-- Doesn't sound like a good solution to
> me.
> Thanks.|||That is exactly what I was hoping for. I, like everyone
else, have dealt with that annoying problem for a while
now. When I saw the large icons tip in SQL Server Mag a
couple months ago, I rejoiced.
Problem is, that does not help here. It seems obvious to
me that this is a bug that has been introduced by either
IE 6, a service pack, or a security patch.
I know a couple other people have seen this problem. You
will find them if you do a google search. No one has
come up with an answer to it yet though.