Kaisa's blog

april 2005 - Posts

• Trouble with Reporting Services, MDX and time periods

  - Or is it me who's stupid? I'm trying to make a report that is partly based on what time period a user wants to show data for. It's all based on mdx, which is why this is a bit harder than if this had been a sql query. 1) The user is supposed Read More posted 19-04-2005 12:08 by kaisa | 1 Comments Filed Under: Reporting Services, MDX and Analysis Services

• Stripping domain name when using User!UserID in a report

  Sometimes you might need to know just the short name of a user when rendering a report in Reporting Services. Using the built in parameter User!UserID will give you the whole AD login name, typically domain\username. For the last customer I've Read More posted 15-04-2005 01:05 by kaisa | (Comments Off) Filed Under: Reporting Services

• Upcoming work projects

  So, I got hired to Completo to work on SharePoint Portal Server 2003. I've been working with it a bit, but more on an administrational basis, than from a development basis. What I've been doing instead, is working almost full time with Reporting Read More posted 14-04-2005 11:44 by kaisa | (Comments Off) Filed Under: IT in general

• My first try with dasBlog

  In September 2004 I started this dotText blog, because I wanted to have a blogging engine of my own. After a few days (or rather weeks, on and off), I got it working. It wasn't too easy to do, but once it's there, it works wonderfully. For me, the choice Read More posted 14-04-2005 11:33 by kaisa | (Comments Off) Filed Under: Blogging and dotText