How to Order amount by multiple dimensions in MDX? - reporting-services

Question

In my Cube,I have following Measures,Dimensions.
**Measure:**
Amount
**From Customer dimension:**
Busines Unit Number
Business Unit Description
Cust Number
Cust Name
**From Bucket dimension:**
Bucket
I want Amount to be ordered by all these dimensions/attributes.
What I tried in MDX so far is,
SELECT
NON EMPTY {
[Measures].[Amount]
} ON COLUMNS,
NON EMPTY { (
ORDER(
(
[Dim Customer].[BU].[BU].MEMBERS*
[Dim Customer].[BU Description].[BU Description].MEMBERS*
[Dim Customer].[Cust No].[Cust No].ALLMEMBERS*
[Dim Address].[Customer Name].[Customer Name].ALLMEMBERS
),
[Measures].[Amount],
BDESC
)
*
[Bucket Dim].[Bucket].[Bucket].ALLMEMBERS
) } ON ROWS
FROM [Cube]
Still I am not getting proper order as I want & also it is taking a too much time to execute.

Answer 1

You can nest ORDER functions to get multiple order by criteria.
The outer order is applied first - a little counter-intuitive.
The following will be ordered by the value of cust no, then by the caption of BU then by [Measures].[Amount]
SELECT
NON EMPTY
{[Measures].[Amount]} ON COLUMNS
,NON EMPTY
{
Order
(
Order
(
Order
(
[Dim Customer].[BU].[BU].MEMBERS*
[Dim Customer].[BU Description].[BU Description].MEMBERS*
[Dim Customer].[Cust No].[Cust No].ALLMEMBERS*
[Dim Address].[Customer Name].[Customer Name].ALLMEMBERS
,[Measures].[Amount]
,BDESC
)
,[Dim Customer].[BU].CurrentMember.Member_Caption
,BDESC
)
,[Dim Customer].[Cust No].CurrentMember.MemberValue
,BDESC
)
*
[Bucket Dim].[Bucket].[Bucket].ALLMEMBERS
} ON ROWS
FROM [Cube];