I’m struggling with the exact same problem as Derek.

Any ideas?

And this is pretty much where I am in my reporting and generating a fully dynamic excel sheet. I ran into one problem and it revolves around the use of the “TOPCOUNT()” MDX.

In my report I have a User Inputted time frame in the format yyyy-mm-dd. I have set up cells to go into my cube sets and pull back all the relevent measures and summarize them on the report (and even a neat little validation function that allows the users to change the column headers to a generated list of ALL measures availible and auto-replace those values!)

The problem if I now want to do a top 10 by location. But I want the top ten in the provided timeframe.

So the user puts in: 2009-01-01 to 2009-01-15

Using a cubeset() with the time values of {[2009-01-01]:[2009-01-15]} works great! And thats were the summaries work perfectly.

So I tried applying it to a top 10 cube set…

=CUBESET(“myCube”,”TopCount([Dim Payto Provider].[Provider Name].Children,10,([Measures].[Paid Amount],{[2009-01-01]:[2009-01-15]}))”,”PTPName”)

And you get an error!

=CUBESET(“myCube”,”TopCount([Dim Payto Provider].[Provider Name].Children,10,([Measures].[Paid Amount],[2008]))”,”PTPName”)

^Works fine

The top 10 for a particular Unit of time may not be the same for a time span within it. And that brings me to my problem!

(The goal is to use the top 10 locations as row headers and string them into a cubevalue function to get my measures)

Any ideas?