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Laurianne
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Can one create alternate hierarchies in the metadata? And if so, is there a restriction on the number of the hierarchies?

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njsden
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You may find some information about it in the Decribing Data With WebFOCUS Language 7.6 manual (DN: 4500806.1209).

"Describing an FML Hierarchy" and "Defining a Dimension: WITHIN" topics make reference to creating hierarchies and OLAP dimensions. You'll find them under the "4. Describing an Individual Field" section.


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Doug
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Perhaps "TABLE FILE filename.fieldname" will work for you.


Since C is the root segment in the alternate view, particular instances of C can be selected faster.


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Am I understanding correctly that to report off an RDBMS (not FOCUS tables with their powerful hierarchies), if one were to OLAP enable the report via the metadata, there would be only one hieracrchy able to be defined in each master file.
So for alternate hierarchies on a single dimension, one would need multiple master files?


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The reports displayed using OLAP should have all the data available to the report regardless of the structure of the source files used to create the report.

Anyone: Correct me if this is incorrect.
 
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Laurianne, please refer to the documentation I pointed out above. It gives you information as to how to declare OLAP dimensions within the master.

You can have multiple dimensions, each with multiple elements. The total number of "elements" is 500 within a master, but hte documentation does not specify what the maximum number of dimensions is.

Perhaps you can play with it yourself. Try defining a few dimensions in your master and see how the OLAP tool behaves.

For example,

1) GEOGRAPHY (country,region,state/prov,city)
2) PRODUCT (product line, category, product)
3) EMPLOYEE (company, department, sub-department, employee)
4) DATE (year,quarter,month,date)

As per documentation, multiple dimensions in a master as combined in a "multi-dimensional matrix" by OLAP with all possible value intersections among all of the elements, which may or may not impact the way your users need to interact with the report.

Please let us know of your test results.


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