Creating dimensions

This procedure creates a dimension and hierarchy. By default, the dimension name that you specified is used as the caption of the dimension, and as the name and caption of the hierarchy. You can specify different names and captions.
  1. Select Dashboards > OLAP > Edit Database.
  2. In the Database Structure widget, select the database to which to add a dimension.
  3. Select Dimensions and click New Dimension in the Dimensions of [database_name] widget.
  4. For the dimension and the hierarchy, specify this information:
    Name
    Specify the name of the new dimension or hierarchy.
    Caption
    The specified dimension name is copied to the Caption field. Optionally, specify a different caption.
    Description
    Optionally, specify a description of the dimension or hierarchy.
  5. Click Next.
  6. Specify the name of the default element.
  7. Optionally, enable localized captions, and specify in which attribute table to store the captions.
    If enabled, an attribute table field is created for each language in the application.
  8. Optionally, enable dimension access control, and specify the name of the DAC cube to create.
  9. Optionally, specify the type of the dimension to create and click Finish.