You can use user-defined attributes (UDAs)—words or phrases describing a characteristic of members—within calculation scripts, member formulas, and reports so that they return lists of members associated with the specified UDA. For example, if you have a Product dimension with various product members, you could create a UDA called New Products and base certain calculations only on new products. For information on creating and using UDAs, see the Oracle Hyperion Essbase Database Administrator’s Guide and Online Help.
Creating UDAs is a three-step process:
Create one or more UDA dimensions. See User-Defined Attribute Dimensions.
Create a dimension association between the UDA property and the UDA dimension.
Create UDA members.