OLAP Data Cube - Measure Manager

The Measure Manager is used to set the attributes of each measure item. Among the attributes you can set are the visibility of each measure, the displayed measure value and the filtered valued. A green check mark next to the measure will make it visible in the OLAP data cube. There must always be at least one measure in the cube. By default, a measure will automatically print its value. To display additional measure data such as percent, ranking, running total, etc, check the box for each optional data in the list.

You can add a new calculated measure by using the calculator icon on bottom toolbar. This will open the Calculated Measures Manager.

The Measure manager dialog box displaying the attributes of each measure item. The Value item's associated check box is chedked with a green check. All other items are checked with a red x.

 

Icon Description
Enable measure button. Looks like a paper with a green check mark. Set all measures to enabled state.
Disable measure button. Looks like a paper with a red x. Set all measures to disabled state.
Toggle measured state button. Looks like two curved arrows arranged in a circle. Toggle measure state - enable to disabled, disabled to enabled.
Expand and collapse tree nodes button. Expand/collapse tree nodes.
Run calculated measure button. Looks like a calculator. Run calculated measures dialog - to create, edit, or delete calculated measures.
Accept changes and close button. Looks like a green check mark. Accept changes and close screen.
Cancel changes and close button. Looks like a red x. Cancel changes and close screen.
Open help button. Looks like a blue question mark. Open In-Product Help.

General

Control Description
Calculation type Select the aggregation method for the data in this measure. By default, the data will be summed.
Display caption The header title for the measure as seen during run-time.
Value representation Here you can specify how you would like to represent the value of the cell.

Filter

The Filter tab allows you to hide or filter out values that are greater or less than a specified number.

The filter tab in the OLAP measure manager

Filter by Map cells - This option hides values based on the values that you see displayed in the cube. Values that are lower than the specified minimum or higher than the specified maximum will be changed to zero values. If desired, you can combine this option with the OLAP cube setting to hide empty rows. Note that the row and column totals are NOT updated to remove the hidden values.

Filter by fact table records - This option filters values from the records in the fact table used to generate the cube (i.e., the cube without any dimensions applied to it). Values that are lower than the specified minimum or higher than the specified maximum will be changed to zero values. If desired, you can combine this option with the OLAP cube setting to hide empty rows. The row and column totals will update with this filtering method, because the filtering is applied to the fact table rather than to the cube. Filtering based on fact table records is only available when supersaturated is enabled for the cube.

Formula

On the Formula tab you can set the formatting for any measures by clicking on the Build Format button and completing the Build format string form.

Build format string dialog. Has a drop-down at the top to select predefined formats: generic, price, and summa. Set the format in the format string text box. You can also set the number of decimals, toggle the thousand separator, set whether symbols appear before or after the number. There is a preview of the number format at the bottom of the dialog.

Need More Help?

If you need additional help creating OLAP Cubes, refer to the Getting Started with OLAP Cubes page.