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New RadarCube WinForms MSAS version: 2.10.1

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:59:34 GMT

Bugs fixed:

Some Total cells of the OLAP Grid can be made up incorrectly when there is two or more open multilevel hierarchies in the column or row area;
The visibility state of the chid members in a hierarchy editor may get lost on paging;
Sometimes the modes of auto sizing can't be cancelled;

New RadarCube WinForms Desktop version: 2.10.1

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:58:07 GMT

Bugs fixed:

Some Total cells of the OLAP Grid can be made up incorrectly when there is two or more open multilevel hierarchies in the column or row area;
The visibility state of the chid members in a hierarchy editor may get lost on paging;
Sometimes the modes of auto sizing can't be cancelled;
When reading a ParentChild hierarchy a null reference error may occur;
If a hierarchy key field points to the field holding null values the null reference error may occur.

New RadarCube WinForms Desktop version: 2.10.0

Thu, 21 May 2009 14:27:54 GMT

New features:

The attributes of hierarchy members can now be displayed in the grid. You can read the article on the matter;
The conext menu for a cell now contains the command copying the cell's text;
The tuning dialog window of Export and Print commands can now be localized;
On long operations the screen cursor is now changed.

Bugs fixed:

Some errors on deleting a calculated measures;
The Cube Editor can "forget" the relations between tables;
Sometimes the double click restoring the column width leads to the strange location of columns;
When there is a lot of cells in the grid the pictures and text in the cells can be displayed incorrectly.

New RadarCube WinForms MSAS version: 2.10.0

Thu, 21 May 2009 14:26:37 GMT

New features:

The attributes of hierarchy members can now be displayed in the grid. You can read the article on the matter;
Support of ROWSET actions added;
The conext menu for a cell now contains the command copying the cell's text;
The tuning dialog window of Export and Print commands can now be localized;
On long operations the screen cursor is now changed.

Bugs fixed:

Some errors on deleting a calculated measures;
The Drillthrough operation may lead to an error when MemberIsNull is set;
Sometimes the double click restoring the column width leads to the strange location of columns;
When there is a lot of cells in the grid the pictures and text in the cells can be displayed incorrectly.

Hierarchy members' attributes

Fri, 08 May 2009 15:26:52 GMT

Attributes of hierarchy members allows displaying in the Grid additional information about them. This aricle shows how to use it... (Read more...)

New RadarCube WinForms Desktop version: 2.03.0

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:43:15 GMT

New features:

New events TOLAPGrid.MouseDoubleClick and DoubleClick;
OLAP Chart: Now the OnCalcMember event is fired for calculated measures;
New property public TSkinType TOLAPControlGeneral.Skin defines the look and feel of the Grid and Chart. This property has only been available in Designer.

Bugs fixed:

The hierarchies that are fully filtered are not displayed in the Filter area;
OLAP Chart: If moving a hierarchy, which is already in the Modifiers area, out to the tree, the corresponding filters are reset;
The members of ParentChild hierarchies are created in a wrong way using the unique key IDField and duplicate DisplayField properties;
In the hierarchy editor the relation between the tree item and the table may get lost, if the object's DiplayField property is set and IDField is not set;
When opening the cube in run time there may be an error because of the missing initialization.

New RadarCube WinForms MSAS version: 2.03.0

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:42:30 GMT

New features:

New class THierarchyEditor allows using the hierarchy editor in run time;
New events TOLAPGrid.MouseDoubleClick and DoubleClick;
OLAP Chart: Now the OnCalcMember event is fired for calculated measures;
New property public TSkinType TOLAPControlGeneral.Skin defines the look and feel of the Grid and Chart. This property has only been available in Designer.

Bugs fixed:

The hierarchies that are fully filtered are not displayed in the Filter area;
OLAP Chart: If moving a hierarchy, which is already in the Modifiers area, out to the tree, the corresponding filters are reset;
The members of ParentChild hierarchies are created in a wrong way using the unique key IDField and duplicate DisplayField properties;
In the hierarchy editor the relation between the tree item and the table may get lost, if the object?s DiplayField property is set and IDField is not set;
When opening the cube in run time there may be an error because of the missing initialization.

Initialization of the OLAP-slice view

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:37:33 GMT

Here is the description of the different ways of initial Grid and Chart loading, as well as the methods of program control over hierarchies and measures layout, drilling and cell sorting... (Read more...)

New RadarCube WinForms Desktop version: 2.02.2

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:26:15 GMT

New features:

New class THierarchyEditor allows using the hierarchy editor in run time.

Bugs fixed:

The Cube Editor error fixed: the fields are distinguished by IDField property now instead of DisplayField.
In the Filter Editor the context menu sometimes is not completed.
When the conditional formatting is on there might be errors on selecting the grid cells.
When placing the grid down on a form in Design Time, the color scheme of the pivot panels might be wrong.
TOlapGrid control doesn't handle the mouse events.

New RadarCube WinForms MSAS version: 2.02.2

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:22:51 GMT

New features:

New class THierarchyEditor allows using the hierarchy editor in run time.

Bugs fixed:

The Cube Editor error fixed: the fields are distinguished by IDField property now instead of DisplayField.
In the Filter Editor the context menu sometimes is not completed.
When the conditional formatting is on there might be errors on selecting the grid cells.
When placing the grid down on a form in Design Time, the color scheme of the pivot panels might be wrong.
TOlapGrid control doesn't handle the mouse events.

TOLAPExport control FAQ

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:17:29 GMT

Operating TOLAP Export provides you with a number of opportunities, such as: set and amend the visual properties, use either stand-alone or in-built component, change column width, export to different formats, or print out the data. Here are the guidelines for using the whole range of them... (Read more...)

New RadarCube WinForms Desktop version: 2.02.1

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:55:17 GMT

Bugs fixed:

Memory leaks.
On export to PDF some errors are possible.
When opening a form with components RadarCube Windows Forms of versions 1.x a huge amount of errors is possible in the *.Designer.cs file like "Error 1124 The type or namespace name 'RadarSoft.WinForms.*' could not be found"
For some series the non-linear trend can be draw incorrectly.
Some minor downsides

New RadarCube WinForms MSAS version: 2.02.1

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:53:50 GMT

Bugs fixed:

Memory leaks.
On export to PDF some errors are possible.
When opening a form with components RadarCube Windows Forms of versions 1.x a huge amount of errors is possible in the *.Designer.cs file like "Error 1124 The type or namespace name 'RadarSoft.WinForms.*' could not be found"
For some series the non-linear trend can be draw incorrectly.
Some minor downsides

Visual analysis with RadarCube OLAP Chart

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:58:42 GMT

There are two ways of presenting data: textual and graphical - both presenting data in the form of OLAP-slice that can be pivoted, drilled, filtered, sorted or grouped. In addition to that, the graphical OLAP has its unique technologies, such as visual analysis and comparison of measures; revealing interconnections between measures in consideration of influential factors; revealing clusters... (Read more...)

Managing the Properties of the TToolbox Panel

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:13:06 GMT

Toolbox is a tool panel with buttons and menu for quick access to the basic options of RadarCube controls. Using some properties of the Toolbox panel allows you to use different toolboxes in or outside the Grid, add or remove buttons and manage their properties... (Read more...)

New WinForms Chart version: 1.00.1

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:37:57 GMT

New features:

Data binding in Design-Time.
The concept of layers that allows combining different chart types (Bar, Line, Point) in the same chart area. The number of layers is unlimited.
The dialog window for setting Chart appearance in Run-Time.
The Getting Started article has been updated.

Chart for Windows Forms. Getting Started

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:29:07 GMT

Here we discuss the elemental issues of operating 2D Charts of different types, including: Design-Time and Run-Time data binding; retrieving data from various sources; program data filling; chart elements; appearance settings; exporting and printing out... (Read more...)

Trend lines in OLAP Chart

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:46:42 GMT

Analyzing trend lines is a great way to reveal the tendency of time series changes. Here we discuss all kinds of operations with trade lines available in the TOLAPChart, including adding and removing trend lines, changing their type and color... (Read more...)

Saving and Restoring RadarCube data

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:51:40 GMT

All RadarCube versions (WinForms, ASP.NET & VCL) share the same principle of saving its data that allows saving and later restoring of the Grid or the Chart state, including their current visual settings, as well as full Cube data (for Direct and Desktop versions only)... (Read more...)

OLAP Grid User's guide

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:44:57 GMT

TOLAPGrid is a component that retrieves data from multidimensional cubes, converts it to OLAP-slice and presents it as a table. Here are the guidelines for operating the component... (Read more...)

OLAP Chart User's guide

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:34:02 GMT

TOLAPChart is a component that retrieves data from multidimensional cubes, converts it to OLAP-slice and presents it as a chart for visual analysis. Here are the guidelines for operating the component... (Read more...)

Context filtering with RadarCube (WinForms edition)

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:28:20 GMT

Context filters are the conditions of making the selected current Cellset content visible. There are three types of the context filters available: member caption filters, date filters, and measure value filters... (Read more...)

RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop: How to make the cube work faster?

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:30:52 GMT

Too big amount of data to be loaded from the database, too slowly loaded or non-optimized data and the structure of cube hierarchies, may hinder the performance of your application. Here are a few steps you can try out to make your application work faster... (Read more...)

RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop: Creating the data source

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:36:17 GMT

Before defining the Cube structure in Cube Editor, you must connect the Cube to a data source, that is you assign a value to its DataSource property. Once you do that, you can open the Cube Editor to construct your Cube. You don't have to fill the tables with data yourself - the Cube will do it for you. .. (Read more...)

Calculated fields. Using TOLAPCube.OnCalculateFields event

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:55:53 GMT

It often happens that databases hold data in the format that is convenient for storing but not for a user. To let data easily convert from one format to another the TOLAPCube supports calculated fields. A calculated field is the one whose value is comprised from other fields' values of the same or some other related table... (Read more...)

RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop. Getting started

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:21:41 GMT

Here is a short guide how to start a new Windows Forms application using RadarCube WinForms Desktop components from preparing the data source to constructing the Cube... (Read more...)

Types of dimensions

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:23:48 GMT

Types of dimensions... (Read more...)

License types for ASP.NET and Windows Forms products

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:29:05 GMT

Depending on your purposes of using our product, there are different types of licenses for you to choose from... (Read more...)

Using RadarCube as a data source for Data-related components

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:46:26 GMT

TOLAPGrid as a component for displaying data, implements the IListSource interface and, hence, can be a data source for other components - data consumers such as Chart-components, export components and so on. .. (Read more...)

Star schema

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:41:44 GMT

The star schema is the simplest data warehouse schema. Its main advantages are: direct and intuitive mapping between business entities analyzed by end users and the schema design, and highly optimized performance for typical data warehouse queries... (Read more...)

Snowflake schema

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:39:13 GMT

The snowflake schema of organizing data is more complex in comparison to a simple star schema. Graphical representation of the schema resembles a snowflake, hence the name. Snowflake schemas normalize dimensions to eliminate redundancy... (Read more...)

Locating a hierarchy member

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:15:11 GMT

All operations, fulfilled in the RadarCube library, deal with hierarchy members represented by the TMember objects. Thus, locating a hierarchy member is one of the important tasks for a programmer... (Read more...)

How to localize RadarCube (WindowsForms and ASP.NET)

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:52:34 GMT

It's easy to localize RadarCube through the Internet... (Read more...)