Today I read Andrew Todd’s brilliant guest post on Powerpivotpro.com about some really cool tricks on cubefunctions. The second one shows a very elegant solution to what I’ve formerly done with my “hidden-Pivot”-technique: Avoid the cubeset-functions by referencing a hidden pivot table instead. So if the set of “cubeslices” you want to use in your reports is static, this is the most elegant way to go in my eyes.
But if it is dynamic, like in a Top-10 ranking or similar, this technique still has it’s reason of being: Say you want to show a section in your dashboards that shows top-x elements, a calculation of their share on the total, then an aggregation on all others and a sum on all like this:
