Each characteristic (dimension) of a BEx query or an InfoCube offers the possibility to set a filter to execute the MDX statement in BW using the selected filter values.

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Click on Filter. The dialog shows the available values.

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Select the desired characteristic values to filter the result.

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It’s possible to set filter for different characteristics.

Filter Variable
You can define a variable for the filter values.
Write the variable name into the field Variable e.g. CompanyCode. When you execute the extraction, set the value e.g. CompanyCode=1000. Several values are supported too, just use comma as seperator, e.g. CompanyCode=1000,2000.

The option Exclude Values from Resultset allows to exclude the filter values from the result set.

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Dimensions with a hierarchy are supported too.

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