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Dimension Description - Level Description - Data Source Column Description

Started by tiwebber, 11 Feb 2014 03:39:33 PM

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tiwebber

I would like a description at the dimension level to show up in Analysis Studio to let users know the definition of the dimensions they are using .  It would appear the only place in Analysis Studio that shows any description meta data is when you click the dimension/level - the little chevron at the botton of the UI will pop open an "Information" box/area that has a "Member Description" area in it.  My question is, how do you get description data entered in transformer to show up in this infomration box/area? I tried entering data in all three of the Description data entry type boxes in transformer (1) Dimension Description - 2) Level Description - 3) Data Source Column Description) and I still get nothing (NULL) in the "Member desrcription" attribute in the "Informaiton" box/area.   

Thx!

tiwebber

...and the answer is...You need to fill in the description of the root category - you find this by "show diagram".  Double click the category and the description is there.  Who knew?  They (being the dev's) could not have picked a more obscure mapping between Analysis Studio's "Member Description" and the place in transformer to enter it data for it.  Why not just the description of the dimension that is exposed in the dimension map? Hmm.