Dimensions Panel

The Dimensions panel lets you specify, for each dimension that you have selected in the Items panel, the criteria for the set of members that you want to work with.

To specify the criteria for the set of members, first make selections in an Available list. The Available list can include the following tabs:

  1. Members -- Displays a list of available members, which you can select explicitly by name.

  2. Conditions -- Displays a list of available conditions (that is, rules), such as "the top 10 products based on Sales,", which you can select and edit to meet your needs.

  3. Favorites -- Displays a list of favorites. A favorite is a previously saved selection (that is, a set of dimension members) that has been saved either as a specific list of members or as a series of steps that specifies the criteria for a set of members. You can select a favorite or one or more steps that make up a favorite.

Then you move the selections to a Selected list by clicking a shuttle button. The Selected list can include the following tabs:

  1. Steps -- Displays the series of steps that specify the criteria for a set of members for the dimension.

    Generally, each time you choose an item from the Members, Conditions, or Favorites tab and move it to the Selected list, a step is created in the Steps tab.

    You can edit each step to specify whether to add, keep, or remove, from the query result set, the members that the step specifies. You can also modify certain other aspects of a step.

  2. Members -- Displays the actual members that are determined by the series of steps.

Note: The Dimensions panel appears as:

  1. A separate page for each dimension, in the wizard mode.

  2. One page that contains a control to specify the dimension for which to specify a set of members, in the tabbed mode.