Assignment a*b with Text Cube

unknown

Hi,

 

I have a cube with the following entities:
• Day
• Vehicle (SPARSE)
• StartDate (time format 00: 00: 00 => MaxItemNumber = 86400) (SPARSE)

 

I have a cube of assignment of vehicles per employee of form:
• Day
• Vehicle (SPARSE)
• Employee (SPARSE)

 

I just want to have a cube
• Day
• Vehicle (SPARSE)
• Employee (SPARSE)
• StartDate (time format 00: 00: 00 => MaxItemNumber = 86400)

 

With a digital cube, just do c = a * b, and it's OK and fast.
With a text cube, what is the syntax because a * b does not work?

Helmut Heimann

Hi Sébastien LEGER,

 

unfortunately, you didn't tell us which of your cubes is the text cube. I presume it to be the first one (and the target).

My idea would be to treat the time (you originally formatted as text) in a manner that BOARD can deal with: make it an integer number (like EXCEL does). You could even use EXCEL to calculate the appropriate values needed to populate the entity "StartDate"--which, as description should have the time in a user-understandable format (like it is now in your text cube).

That should do the trick--and you'll get the possibility of defining a list of allowed values to enter in your StartDate-Cube.

 

Best Regards,

Helmut