Edit Cube Element dialog

This dialog appears when you right-click any cube element of a business/report cube and select Edit from the shortcut menu in the Catalog Browser. It helps you to edit the specified cube element, and consists of the following tabs:

General tab
Security tab

Applies all changes and closes the dialog.

Cancel

Does not retain changes and closes the dialog.

Help

Displays this help document.

General tab

Sets properties for the cube element. See the tab.

Name

Specifies the name of the cube element.

Display Name

Specifies the display name of the cube element which is intuitive to the end user.

Mapping Name

Specifies the mapping name of the field to which the cube element is mapped. Click to select the field.

Type

Specifies the type of the cube element.

Dimension
Dimension objects are the cube elements that will become the basis for analyzing data in a report. They characteristically return text data or dates.
Measure
Measure objects are numeric cube elements that are calculated at the time the report runs. The values they return are dependent on the dimension objects which they are used with. For example you may want a sales total by year.
Detail Info
Detail information objects provide additional information. They can be bound to dimension, measure or category. Detail information objects are not used for analysis but are useful to have.

Aggregate Function

Available only when the cube element is a measure object. It specifies the function for the measure object. For details about each function, see Math functions.

Note: When the measure object is mapped to a formula which references a dynamic summary, you are not allowed to specify the function for this measure object.

Tip

Specifies the tooltip of the cube element which will be shown when you hover the mouse pointer over the element in the Resource View panel of Page Report Studio.

Description

Specifies the description of the cube element which will be shown after the tooltip when you hover the mouse pointer over the element in the Resource View panel of Page Report Studio.

Security tab

Specifies user accessibility to members of the dimension objects in all the business/report cubes in current data source. See the tab.

For details about options in the tab, refer to Edit Business Cube Security dialog.