Lesson: Drilling Down on Rows

  To drill down to lower levels of the Year dimension:

  1. On Year in cell A2, double-click the primary mouse button.

    The drill-down action retrieves data for the level below (the children of) Year: Qtr1, Qtr2, Qtr3, and Qtr4:

    Result of drilling down on the Year dimension.

    With Essbase, you can retrieve members into columns or rows that are grouped or nested. Row groups containing multiple levels of data are nested within single-member row groups. For example, a row group containing Qtr1, Qtr2, Qtr3, and Qtr4 may be nested within one-member row for a region, such as East. Drilling down to lower levels of database members is one way to retrieve data into nested groups.

  2. In cell D1, double-click to drill down on Market and create nested groups of rows down the worksheet:

    Result of drilling down on the Market dimension (nested rows).

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