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Each element of a dimension has a unique name (generated by the OLAP server), an element name and a caption. The element name is the “friendly name” of the element. For example, in the sample database supplied with Infor BI Office Plus, Europe is an element name in the Region dimension. Its unique name is [Region].[All Regions].[Europe]. The caption is the localized element name. If Caption is selected as the display format, but the element name has not been translated, the element name is displayed. Whether element names are unique depends on the database provider. Elements names are unique in OLAP. But captions are not unique. For example, the caption January exists for every year in the Time dimension.