About the Logical Table Source's Parent-Child Settings

When a logical table is part of a dimension with a parent-child hierarchy that's based on relational tables, the logical table includes both a physical source and a source for the parent-child relationship table required by the parent-child hierarchy.

Parent-child relationship tables explicitly define the inter-member relationships for parent-child hierarchies.

You can view details for the parent-child relationship table source in logical table's Hierarchy tab.

  • Relationship Table - The name of the parent-child relationship table that the source is based on.

  • Member Key - The name of the column in the parent-child relationship table that identifies the member.

  • Parent Key - The name of the column in the parent-child relationship table that identifies an ancestor of the member.

  • Relationship Distance - The name of the column in the parent-child relationship table that specifies the number of parent-child hierarchical levels from the member to the ancestor.

  • Leaf Node Identifier - The name of the column in the parent-child relationship table that indicates if the member is a leaf member (1=Yes, 0=No).

See Create Dimensions with Parent-Child Hierarchies.