The dimension '[Time]' was not found in the cube when the string [Time].[Year], was parsed

Question

[Time].[Year] attribute's defaultMember property is set to

    tail(FILTER( [Date].[Year].members, 
        not  ISEMPTY( [Date].currentmember )), 1).item(0)

When I try to browse the cube, I am getting an error:

DefaultMember(Date,Year) (1,14) The dimension '[Time]' was not found in the cube when the string [Time].[Year], was parsed

Answer 1

That's an odd message considering the expression that you show has the Date dimension and not the Time dimension specified. If that's truly the case, here's what I would do to track down the problem. Find the solution folder in the file system, open the project folder, and then open the bin folder. You should have a file with an ASDATABASE file extension. If you don't see file extensions, but see a column for type, open the one with the Analysis Services Database Deployment Contents type. Open it with Notepad or your favorite text or XML editor. Search the file for [Time].[Year] and then work your way backwards through the nodes to figure out which property of which dimension it belongs to. Then you can go into SSDT and fix the problem.