Outline Editor Window

Outline Editor is a graphical environment for manually defining and maintaining Essbase database outlines and their properties.

When you open an outline, the Outline menu is added to the menu bar of the console. A separate window is opened for each outline that you edit.

Note:

For a quick, read-only view of outlines, use Outline Viewer.

Outline Editor provides the following tabs:

  • Outline—Used to manipulate dimensions and members within the outline

  • Properties—Used to define outline properties, such as attribute settings and dimension data-storage properties

  • Query Hints—Used to define query hints for a dimension

  • Modifications—Used to view modifications made to the outline during the current editing session

  • Verification—Used to view messages and errors that result from outline verification

  • Find Results—Used to work with members that are displayed as the result of a Find operation

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