Metadata Attributes

In OLAP metadata, an attribute is a descriptive characteristic of one or more levels of a dimension. For example, the Product dimension for a clothing manufacturer might contain a level called Item, one of whose attributes is Color. Attributes represent logical groupings that enable end users to select data based on similar characteristics.

An MDAttribute represents an attribute in the MetadataManager. MDAttribute extends MDObject. Attributes do not contain other objects.

Domain and range dimensions

Attribute values (such as Red, Blue, and Green) are stored in dimensions. For this reason, an attribute has at least two dimensions that belong with it: