Business Hierarchy Types

The following table lists the available Business Hierarchies.

Hierarchy Type	Description / Hierarchy Sub Type
Regular	In a Regular Hierarchy Type, you can define the following Hierarchy Sub Types: Non Business Intelligence Enabled In a non Business Intelligence Enabled Hierarchy, you need to manually add the required levels. The levels defined will form the Hierarchy. Business Intelligence Enabled You can Enable Business Intelligence hierarchy when you are not sure of the Hierarchy structure leaf values or the information is volatile and also when the Hierarchy structure can be directly selected from RDBMS columns. The system will automatically detect the values based on the actual data. Parent Child This option can be selected to define a Parent Child Type hierarchy.
Measure	A Measure Hierarchy consists of the defined measure as nodes and has only the Non Business Intelligence Enabled as Hierarchy Sub Type.
Time	A Time Hierarchy consists of the levels/nodes of high time granularity and has only the Business Intelligence Enabled as Hierarchy Sub Type.

Hierarchy Type

Description / Hierarchy Sub Type

In a Regular Hierarchy Type, you can define the following Hierarchy Sub Types:

In a non Business Intelligence Enabled Hierarchy, you need to manually add the required levels. The levels defined will form the Hierarchy.

Business Intelligence Enabled

You can Enable Business Intelligence hierarchy when you are not sure of the Hierarchy structure leaf values or the information is volatile and also when the Hierarchy structure can be directly selected from RDBMS columns. The system will automatically detect the values based on the actual data.

Parent Child

This option can be selected to define a Parent Child Type hierarchy.

Measure

A Measure Hierarchy consists of the defined measure as nodes and has only the Non Business Intelligence Enabled as Hierarchy Sub Type.

Time

A Time Hierarchy consists of the levels/nodes of high time granularity and has only the Business Intelligence Enabled as Hierarchy Sub Type.

You can select the required Business Hierarchy from the drop-down list and specify the Hierarchy Sub Type details. The window options differ on selecting each particular Hierarchy type. Click on the following links to view the section in detail.