Disclosure Management manages virtual contexts by consolidating the virtual contexts that use the same context and dimension combination instead of creating one virtual context per mapped item (that is, a dimension associated with a fact-value). For example, suppose your document is modeled as shown below:
Cell B3 has a concept (“Revenue”), a context (“Qtr1”), and a domain (“East”) mapped to it. A virtual context is generated that consists of “Qtr1” and “East”.
Cell B4 has a concept (“Profit”), a context (“Qtr1”), and a domain (“East”) mapped to it. This cell uses the same virtual context as cell B3. Disclosure Management does not create a new virtual context for cell B4.
The previous example generates four virtual contexts (“Qtr1-East”, “Qtr2-East”, “Qtr1-West”, and “Qtr2- West”). However, there are only two real contexts (“Qtr1” and “Qtr2”.
The Disclosure Management add-in stores the dimensional information in much the same way as it stores mapped taxonomy concepts, with the corresponding data (in the Office document). However, the virtual contexts are not persisted with the Office document.