You use the Area Mapping Member Selection dialog box to select members for partition definitions.
Depending upon whether the dialog box was launched from the Source or Target column of the Areas tab, the Dimensions tab displays a tree view of the source or target database outline. You expand the dimension nodes to view and select members and right-click in the display area to access a menu that enables you to perform various actions (for example, to add all descendants of the selected member).
To specify how the outline is displayed and, thus, to specify how you view and select members, from the “View method” group, select an option:
By member name—You can select a member name or a member set function. For example, if, directly below Sales, you select “All children,” all children of Sales are included in the partition.
By generation name
By level name
By Dynamic Time Series—Available only for a time dimension
The Rules box lists the members and member set functions that are included in the current partition definition. For duplicate members, qualified member names are listed. To empty the box, click the Remove All button. To modify the list, select an item, and click one of the following buttons:
Move Item Up
Move Item Down
Remove Item
In the “Output options” group, select one or more options:
Use aliases—Aliases from the current alias table, rather than member names, are displayed in the outline. For members without aliases, member names are displayed. The option is available only if the “By member name” option is selected.
Suppress shared members—Shared members are listed only once in the Member Preview dialog box. The option is available only if the “By generation name” or “By level name” option is selected.
To initiate or perform various actions, you click the following buttons:
Add—Add items selected in the outline tree to the Rules box
Find Members—Open the Find Members dialog box, which you use to search the outline tree (Members that meet the search criteria are listed on the Results tab.)
Information—Open the Member Information dialog box, which displays information about the member selected in the outline
Subset—Open the Subset dialog box, which you use to apply additional rules to a subset of members
Preview—Open the Member Preview dialog box, which lists the members that meet the selection rules
Import—Import selection rules, to import members into the Rules box
Export—Export selection rules, to export members from the Rules box
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