We feel that the expand function on base level (BAS) in both EPM and EVDRE have been changed from 7.5 to BPC 10. It is the sorting of members that we feel is wrong. It is not expanding on the order of the dimension but on what hierarchy level order the member has. This will render in strange sort order of the members. We got this answer from the support on this:
“By product design, I would like to confirm the changing of Member order for BAS Key of in BPC 10 (within EPM-Addin), comparing to 7.5 version for an EVDRE report. In version 7.5, the members are retrieved in the order of the dimension whereas in version 10, the members are retrieved by hierarchy level order (refer to the attached document "What's News" in PDF format, on the section page 11). By the way, you can change the default member order to ascending in version 10, please follow the steps below:
1. Click Edit Report and click the Dimension where the members need to be reordered to bring up the Member Selector window.
2. Click the Member Sorting & Grouping button and check the box next to Enable Member Sorting and click OK twice.
After these steps, the members should be in ascending order.”
This is actually not helping at all. It is then sorted based on numerical and alphabetical order. This is not good! Is there actually a need for sorting like this when you do it on a base level?
To explain what we would like to have then:
We would like it to sort as the expansion on “Descendants” (EPM) “ALL” (EVDRE) except for the calculated members which should be excluded.
Is there anyone else that feels the same as we do?
