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Title: Cube based Data item
Post by: iBoy on 30 Oct 2013 09:56:15 AM
Quick question to refresh my mind about cubes and they're occurence in a data item.

Below is a data item containing the following:

[Control Platform].[Categories].[Categories (All)].[Category]->:[PC].[@MEMBER].[0]

I understand:

[Control Platform] = Package
[Categories] = Dimension
[Categories (All)] = Hierarchy
[Category] = Level

[PC] = PowerCube
[@Member] = ?
Title: Re: Cube based Data item
Post by: CognosPaul on 31 Oct 2013 06:38:04 AM
The [@Member] I think simply indicates that it's a member. That .[0] is the category code for that member.

In PowerCubes you will occasionally see a tilde inside the category code. That happens when you have two members, in the same level, with the same category code. This can happen when you create dimensions from unrelated attributes. Marriage status-> Gender. Since Male will appear in all marriage statuses, Transformer will automatically append a unique ID to ensure uniqueness.