DIMEND

Specifies a dimension format to be processed after cycling through all members in the dimension.

Any formatting commands in the report script encountered immediately before the DIMEND command become formats for all dimensions in dimList.

When the report is produced, after processing all members from the specified dimension(s) associated with the format, including the processing of any groups of members from other dimensions which are nested inside the specified dimension(s), the DIMEND format is then processed.

Syntax

<DIMEND dimList

Parameters

dimList

List of members, separated by commas, that represents the dimensions for which the format is intended.

Notes

Formats are associated with the subsequent member, and are processed just prior to any output of that member. Therefore, without this command, in some situations it would be impossible to define a format to process after a member, especially if it was the last in a group.

Example

The UCOLUMNS format command underlines the columns in the report after every cycle through the Market dimension. In the report, you see children of Qtr1 for East followed by children of Qtr1 for West. After West, before starting over with East again, the processing of UCOLUMNS displays the underlines in the report.

<PAGE (Accounts, Scenario)
Sales Actual
 <COLUMN (Product)
 /* Applied after dimension processing*/
 <ICHILDREN Audio
<ROW (Market,Year)
 East West
  <CHILDREN Qtr1
{ UCOLUMNS }
<DIMEND(Market) 
/* Puts underline after Market */
 !
 

This example produces the following report:

                                Sales Actual
                           Stereo   Compact     Audio
                         ========  ========  ========
East        Jan             2,788     3,550     6,338
            Feb             2,482     3,285     5,767
            Mar             2,569     3,458     6,027
West        Jan             4,102     4,886     8,988
            Feb             3,723     4,647     8,370
            Mar             3,808     4,788     8,596
=========== ============ ========  ========  ========