1. Administrator's Guide
  2. Creating Profitability and Cost Management Applications
  3. Creating Applications Using the Profitability Applications Console
  4. Creating an Essbase Master Cube for Profitability and Cost Management
  5. User-Defined Attributes

User-Defined Attributes

User-defined attributes (UDAs) enable analysis based on text attributes of dimension members. For example, you can add a UDA called "New Products."

Enter the UDA name for the selected member.

You can enter up to 80 alphanumeric characters.

Attribute dimensions in the Master Cube must have dimension names composed of ASCII characters only (English letters and numbers), and the first character of the attribute dimension name must be a letter, for example, a-z or A-Z.

In any Oracle Essbase outline, ensure all dimensions have a unique name. Otherwise, the creation of the outline will fail. For example, an attribute dimension member name cannot match a regular dimension name.