CurrentHierarchyMember

EAZYBI When iterating through the set of members in the currently used hierarchy, the CurrentHierarchyMember function dynamically returns the member being operated upon. It is like saying, "You are here," and the value is calculated for this particular member.

Syntax

Dimension_Expression.CurrentHierarchyMember

Arguments

Dimension_Expression	MDX expression that returns a dimension in the currently used hierarchy.

Examples

Example with Time

[Time].CurrentHierarchyMember can be used in calculated member formulas to handle both [Time].CurrentMember and [Time.Weekly].CurrentMember cases.

The example below verifies if the Time dimension is used on the report with a particular period or not used in the report. The formula validates if All Times (default member) is used in the report or Time dimension is absent from the report.

[Time].CurrentHierarchyMember is [Time].CurrentHierarchy.DefaultMember

See example report Control chart (cycle time) in our Demo account. Time dimension usage in the report might impact calculation. The calculated measures Rolling Average cycle time and Rolling Average cycle time alternative uses a formula above to validate if the Time dimension is used in the report. If no time dimension is used in the report a simple calculation for a cycle time can be used. The report uses Time dimension in the report, therefore, in the particular example the more complex calculation with iteration through issues is needed.

Example with DescendantsSet

The following example would pull in all workdays until yesterday for any report selection and count the average of resolved issues per day.

-- count average resolved issues for any weekday for a selected time period
Avg(
  Filter(
    -- access all days for a selected time period
    DescendantsSet([Time].CurrentHierarchyMember,[Time].CurrentHierarchy.Levels("Day")),
    -- exclude weekends
    NOT [Time].CurrentHierarchyMember.Get('Week day name') MATCHES "Saturday|Sunday"
    AND
    -- count till yesterday only to include full completed days
    DateCompare(
      [Time].CurrentHierarchyMember.StartDate,
      "Yesterday"
    ) <=0
  ),
  -- count resolved issues or 0 if there are no resolved issues in a weekday
  CoalesceEmpty([Measures].[Issues resolved], 0)
)