Query Property: Override Dimension Info

[venkiatmaruthi]

In the report studio,
If you click on query, you can find a property in Data section "Override Dimension Info".

Can anyone please tell me what is the benfit of this property?

[MFGF]

It allows you to define dimensional structures etc where you want to override the dimension information defined in the data source (if present) or add dimension information to (for example) a flat relational package.

The user guide explains it quite nicely:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/cbi/v10r1m0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.swg.im.cognos.ug_cr_rptstd.10.1.0.doc%2Fug_cr_rptstd_id19131cr_rptstd_wrkdat_add_dimension_info.html

Regards,

MF.

[Michael75]

I know this is an old post, but I've also wondered about this property (a lot of the reports I "inherited", dating from the ReportNet era, use it), and whether it's still useful in C10.

Today I came across this article giving a neat example of its use:    http://xploreplus.com/kb/remove-default-grouping-from-ibm-cognos-crosstab/