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Assignment Webpivot Table

This document outlines an assignment using WebPivotTable to analyze sales data from a cube. Students are instructed to customize a pivot table showing promotions by month with average sales amounts, then extend the analysis by adding currency filters and collapsing/filtering fields. Screenshots are to be provided at different steps and quiz questions assess understanding of the data dimensions.

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Assignment Webpivot Table

This document outlines an assignment using WebPivotTable to analyze sales data from a cube. Students are instructed to customize a pivot table showing promotions by month with average sales amounts, then extend the analysis by adding currency filters and collapsing/filtering fields. Screenshots are to be provided at different steps and quiz questions assess understanding of the data dimensions.

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Assignment using Web PivotTable

Using WebPivotTable, you will customize a pivot table and extend it to show more
aggregated fields. WebPivotTable is a pure Javascript application that can be used in any
browser without plugins.

Before starting this assignment, you should read the Web pivot table tutorial. The
tutorial demonstrates the usage of WebPivotTable and the OLAP cube source used for this
assignment. It also demonstrates MDX to specify a pivot table. If you have not read the tutorial
yet, please refer to it prior to starting this assignment.

1. Load the Data Cube


a. Select the preloaded OLAP cube Microsoft Adventure Works (same cube used in
tutorial) from the Demo list to create the pivot table.

b. Take some time exploring the data cube before beginning on the details of the
assignment.

2. Create the Pivot Table


Create a customized pivot table that shows the following:

a. Expand the “Promotions” dimension in the Fields List.

b. Select “Promotions” field inside the “Promotions” dimensions in the Rows area.

c. Expand the “Delivery Date” dimension in the Fields List.

d. Select “Delivery Date.Month of Year” in the Columns area. If it appears in the


Rows area, move it from the Rows to the Columns area.

e. Expand the Measures in the Fields List.

f. Select “Average Sales Amount” in the values area

g. Take a screen snapshot and paste it into a document as the snapshot for part 2
of the WebPivotTable assignment. The snapshot should show All Promotions and
All Periods with complete expansion on the rows and columns with Average
Sales Amount in the cells.

h. Keep the sheet open for the next part.

i. Separately, answer quiz questions 1 to 5.


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3. Extend the Pivot Table


a. Add “Source Currency” level (Do NOT include “ALL” level) from the Source Currency
dimension to the Filters area.

b. Create a filter such that the pivot table displays value only for “Canadian Dollar”
and “US Dollar”.

c. Take a screen snapshot and paste it into a document as the snapshot for part 3
of WebPivotTable assignment. The snapshot should show a complete expansion
of All Periods and All Promotions with January Average Sales Amount in the cells.

d. Keep the sheet open for the next part.

e. Separately, answer quiz questions 6 and 7.

4. Extend the Pivot Table with Filter Changes and Rollups


a. Modify the filter to show results only for the source Currency “EURO”.

b. Collapse all reseller promotions except for Excess Inventory. Show only the
subcategories within the Excess Inventory item.

c. Remove the pivot chart so that the sheet only displays the pivot table.

d. Take a screen snapshot and paste it into a document as the snapshot for part 4
of the WebPivotTable assignment. The snapshot should show the Average Sales
Amount for All Periods along with a subset of the expansion of All Promotions for
Excess Inventory promotions.

e. Separately, answer quiz questions 8 to 13.

5. Submission and Grading


You also need to submit the screen snapshots from parts 2 and 4 in a document. Each
snapshot has one-third weight. You should ensure that your snapshots show requested areas of
the pivot table.
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Questions 1 to 5

Question 1
How many levels are in the Promotions dimension excluding All?
1 point

2.
Question 2
What is the hierarchical ordering of levels in the Promotions dimension from coarsest (least detailed) to
finest (most detailed)?
1 point

Category-Promotion

Category-Type-Subcategory

Category-Type-Promotion

Product-Subcategory-Type

3.
Question 3
How many levels are in the Delivery Date.Month of Year dimension excluding All?
1 point

4
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4.
Question 4
What is the February Average Sales Amount of the No Discount promotion for all currencies? Note that
February is the third column as WebPivotTable may not render the column headings correctly.
1 point

$4,007.78

$5,289.69

$18,716.84

$5,727.83

5.
Question 5
What is the Average Sales Amount across all periods and currencies for Mountain-100 Clearance Sale in the
Reseller -> Discontinued Product items?
1 point

$10,455.32

$417.73

$3,590.42

$5,371.27

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