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IBM Cognos 8 Platform => COGNOS 8 => Report Studio => Topic started by: Vick on 11 Dec 2008 01:12:40 AM

Title: slicer
Post by: Vick on 11 Dec 2008 01:12:40 AM
Can anybody tell me in what scenarios can we use slicer..Can it only be used with Dimensional Model or relational as well.

Thanks in advance,
Vick
Title: Re: slicer
Post by: TJohnson on 12 Dec 2008 01:53:01 PM
A slicer is only for dimensional models (either cubes or dimensionally modeled relational data (DMR)).  It allows you to 'filter' out the result set from a multi-dimensional source.  For example, if you have a year dimension, if you drag a year member, say 2008 into the slicer pane, the query will be limited to just 2008 values.