This blog posting is a continuation of previous post, Create a #PowerPivot report filtered by the Top X Users by (Part 1 of 3), where I had created an Excel Named Set based on the Top 10 Users by Events as noted in Figure 1. What is handy about using named sets is that it will only render the top 10 rows as opposed to the millions of rows of users this data set has. While it is easy to show the Top 10 users, it is not straightforward to filter by those Top 10 users because Excel Named Sets cannot be used as a filter. Example reports with this type of business logic include “most common hospital departmental systems that the top 10 users are accessing” or “what are the most watched TV programs of the top 10 markets (i.e. cities)”.
Figure 1: Top 10 Users by Events using an Excel Named Set
In the second blog posting of this series, Create a #PowerPivot report filtered by the Top X Users by (Part 2 of 3), I showed how to filter by this same named set in a static fashion. In this third part of this blog series, let’s figure out how to filter by a named set in a dynamic fashion.
