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This document outlines an assignment involving customizing and extending a pivot table using the Pivot4J plugin for Pentaho Business Analytics. It provides instructions over three questions: 1) Customize a pivot table to show specific dimensions and measures. 2) Extend the pivot table by adding aggregated fields, swapping and reordering axes. 3) Fill in blanks about the cube dataset and customized pivot table, saving the answers in a PDF report.

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This document outlines an assignment involving customizing and extending a pivot table using the Pivot4J plugin for Pentaho Business Analytics. It provides instructions over three questions: 1) Customize a pivot table to show specific dimensions and measures. 2) Extend the pivot table by adding aggregated fields, swapping and reordering axes. 3) Fill in blanks about the cube dataset and customized pivot table, saving the answers in a PDF report.

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Submission deadline: Tuesday, Feb 7th, 2017; 10:00 AM

Assignment # 1
This assignment provides experience with Pivot4J, a plugin for Pentaho Business
Analytics. Using Pivot4J, you will customize a pivot table and extend it to show more
aggregated fields.

Before starting this assignment, you must read the Pentaho Pivot4J tutorial and
configure Pentaho to use the Pivot4J plug-in. The tutorial demonstrates installation of Pentaho
Business Analytics and the Pivot4J plugin. It also has examples of creating, customizing,
extending and using MDX to build a pivot table. If you have not read the tutorial yet, please
refer to it prior to starting this assignment.

Startup: Create the Pivot Table


a. Select the SampleData catalog and Quadrant Analysis cube to create the pivot
table.

b. Take some time exploring the dataset using this pivot table.

Q. No 1: Customize the Pivot Table


Create a customized pivot table that shows the following:

a. Department and Positions in the rows axis

b. Region, Budget and Actual in the columns axis

c. Expand the Region dimension.

d. Expand the Department dimension.

e. Expand Positions for the Marketing & communication attribute.

f. Export the current view of the pivot table and save it to a document.

g. Save the current view as a report under the name Q. No 1 Result.pdf.

h. Do NOT close the window and keep it for the next section.
Q. No 2: Extend the Pivot Table
a. Create an axis aggregation field that shows the minimum value of each region (column)
across positions and departments (rows). The minimum calculations should appear at
the bottom of the pivot table.

b. Create a hierarchical aggregation field for the rows that shows the average value across
all positions for each department and region. The average calculations appear in the
rows at the end of each department.

c. Swap axes with only one click. Swap back to the previous positions. In an actual
analysis, you would select the preferred swapping order.

d. Change the order of dimensions in rows. Change the order of measures in


columns. In an actual analysis, you would select the preferred ordering.

e. Export the current view of the pivot table and save it to a document.

f. Save the current view as a report under the name Q. No 2 Result.pdf.

Q. No 3: Fill in the blanks:


1. How many dimension(s) is/are in the cube? _________________

2. How many measure(s) is/are in the cube? _________________

3. How many members does the Region dimension have? _________________

4. How many members does the Department dimension have? _________________

5. How many member does the Positions dimension have? _________________

6. How many dimension(s) is/are in the row axis? _________________

7. How many dimension(s) is/are in the column axis? _________________

8. What is the Budget value of Payroll in the Finance Department for all regions?
_________________
9. What is the Actual value of All positions in Professional Services for Central region?
_________________

10. How many non-empty cells does the Executive Management department have?
_________________

11. Which of these Positions does not exist in the Marketing & Communication department?
_________________

12. What is the minimum Budget value for the "All Regions" column across positions? This
question relates to the assignment step to create an axis aggregation for the minimum of the
column (regions). If you configured the pivot table according to the assignment specifications,
the "All Regions" column shows the sum of values (budget and actual) across all regions for each
position.
_________________

13. What is the average Actual value across all positions in the Executive Management
department in the Eastern region? This question corresponds to the assignment step to create
an average hierarchical aggregation for the rows.
_________________

Save all your answers of the blanks in a report under the name Q. No 3 Result.pdf.

Compress all the PDF documents in one zip archive and upload the compressed file on slate.

Good Luck. Thank you.

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