1. Administering Planning
  2. Defining Valid Intersections and Cell-Level Security
  3. Defining Valid Intersections
  4. Understanding Valid Intersections
  5. Anchor and Nonanchor Dimensions

Anchor and Nonanchor Dimensions

Anchor and nonanchor dimensions:

  • Anchor dimensions are always required dimensions in the cube that is used in the valid intersection evaluation.

  • Nonanchor dimensions are either required or not:

    • If a nonanchor dimension is required, any cube that doesn't use that dimension will ignore any valid intersection group where that dimension is tagged as required as it evaluates the valid intersections.

    • If a nonanchor dimension isn't required, any cube that doesn't use that dimension will still evaluate any valid intersection group that includes that dimension as not required and evaluate the intersections of any other dimensions in the valid intersection group in use in the cube.

  • Unselected anchor dimension members are valid by default, but you can mark them invalid by clearing the Unselected Members are Valid option. This option marks all intersections with anchor dimension members not selected in this rule as invalid.

See Valid Intersection Examples.