I had a bit of a rant yesterday about the fact I have had to compromise naming custom member properties when I’ve inadvertently created them with the wrong data type. As I mentioned, I found a Dimension attribute collection method in the Planning client assemblies that hinted that it might allow me to delete a member property so I decided to give it a go.
Below is some really rough and ready C# code that actually does delete a dimension member property. I will improve the code and probably add it in to my PPSCMD GUI interface as a ‘feature pack’ bonus at some stage, however, if you are in desperate need for the code to delete a member property, and you can’t wait for PPSCMD GUI v0.2 or PerformancePoint Version 2 (I’m not sure which will come first !) the code is below (Use at your own risk !!)
Note: Replace “MyApp“, “MyDimension“, “MyAttribute“, oh, and the server address, accordingly..
using Microsoft.PerformancePoint.Planning.Client.Common; using Microsoft.PerformancePoint.Planning.Bmo.Core; .. // Setup the PPS Application Metadata Manager ServerHandler serverHandler = new ServerHandler("http://localhost:46787"); MetadataManager manager = new MetadataManager(); manager.ServerHandler = serverHandler; manager.ServerHandler.Connect(); // Get the system metadata BizSystem system = manager.GetSystem(true); // Get hold of the PPS Application BizApplication ppsApp = system.Applications["MyApp"]; // Obtain the root model site from the application BizModelSite site = ppsApp.RootModelSite; // Obtain the dimension that contains the member property BizDimension dimension = site.Dimensions["MyDimension"]; // Obtain the member property BizDimensionAttribute attribute = dimension.Attributes["MyAttribute"]; // Check out the dimension manager.CheckOut(dimension.Id, dimension.ParentModelSite.Id); // Perform the delete dimension.DeleteDimensionAttribute(attribute, null); // Submit the change manager.SubmitModelSite(ppsApp.Id, dimension.ParentModelSite, Microsoft.PerformancePoint.Planning.Bmo.Interfaces.SubmissionType.Update); // Check in the dimension manager.CheckIn(dimension.Id, dimension.ParentModelSite.Id);
Update: I’ve since discovered that you can obtain an unsupported utility from Microsoft Support that reportedly does the same thing, doh !
Oh well, always nice to have the code ..J
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