Example Steps: Build a Merged Cube Sheet for Revenue by Product and Customer
This example illustrates how to create a merged cube sheet that calculates the revenue for each customer and product.
You want to plan with 2 new custom dimensions: Product and Customers. You want to calculate the revenue for each customer and product. To improve the performance of the sheets, you don't want a single cube sheet with both custom dimensions.
Security:
Model includes sheets, accounts, dimensions, and formulas
permission.- Create custom dimensions for products and customers with dimension values.
- Build a modeled sheet to forecast how many products each customer purchases.
- Build a cube sheet to forecast the price and mix of product purchases.
- Click .
- ClickNew Sheet.
- Complete the form like this:
Optie Omschrijving Create new sheetSelectCube.Sheet nameEnterMerged Revenue.Sheet codeEnterMREV. - SelectCreate as Merged Cube.
- ClickNextto display theSheet Summary: Merged Revenuepage.
- ClickDimensions, Attributes and Levels.Time,Account, andLevelcolumns populate the center canvas.
- Click the gear icon from the toolbar.
- From theSettingstab, select these sheets from the prompts:
- QuantityfromSource Modeled Sheet.
- Price and MixfromSource Cube Sheet.
- ClickOK.
- From theElementstab, clickDimensionsand dragCustomerandProductinto the canvas.
- SelectAccountfrom the center canvas.
- From theAccountstab in theAccount Propertiessection, select the check box next toMerged Revenue.
- From the breadcrumbs, clickSummary of Merged Revenue.
- ClickCube Accounts.
- From the toolbar, clickCreate new cube calculated account.
- Complete these settings like this:
Optie Omschrijving CodeEnterPRxQTY.NameEnterPrice by Quantity.Formula,EnterACCT.PRC.prc[Product=this, Customer=(-)] *ACCT.PRC.mix[Product=this, Customer=(-)] *ACCT.QTY.Timespan[Customer=this, Product=(-)].The formula references the uncategorized Customer dimension value in thePrice and Mixsheet accounts, which didn’t plan at the Customer dimension. The formula references the uncategorized Product in theQuantitysheet, which didn’t plan at the Product dimension. - ClickSave.
For the merged cube to calculate at the dimension values of the source sheets, enter data in the source sheets at each dimension value.
From the
Sheets
menu, open the Merged Revenue
sheet. You can review the revenue of each customer per product.