Hi there,
I've been searching for days without finding a solution for this problem, so here it goes:
There's two ways of using a SSAS cube to browse data and create charts: a live connection or by importing the data. The live connection works great, but has some disadvantages. The biggest one for me is that I can't create calculated measures. For example, I want to compare sales of a month in the current year with the month of the previous year. However, since I can't write any DAX queries this seems impossible? It's just one example of the things I can't seem to achieve without creating calculated measures.
So I tried importing the data, which does allow me to create calculated measures. Since I have a big cube this takes a long time to load for starters. But next to that, and more important to me, it doesn't recognize relationships and hierarchies from my cube. Since ssas hides the foreign keys in the fact tables I don't know how to manually assign them either.
So to sum it up: Is it possible to, for example, compare sales over different years without using calculated measures? If not, how can I achieve this functionality for my SSAS cube without losing my relationships?