Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Figure 12-1.
The Actions tab and toolbar
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Tip
You can see each button title in a tooltip when you hover over them.
URL Actions
The first circled button, New Action, allows data to be sent from the cube to another application for processing. One
common example of a URL action is to add dimension values to a web application using an HTTP query string.
To create a new action of this type, click the first of the three buttons to open the configuration options. The
tooltip calls this button New Action. Type a logical name for your action into the Name textbox. We titled ours
URL Action Demo
in Figure
12-2
. Setting the “Target type” dropdown box to Cell allows you to click a report cell
to activate the action.
Filter out which cells allow actions to occur by using the “Target object” dropdown box. In Figure
12-2
, we
kept the default “All cells.”
Define the action's type using the Type dropdown box. This determines the manner in which data is passed
to an application. The URL type is one of the most useful. It allows you to build a string that will be passed to the
client's default web browser.
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All textboxes can be expanded and collapsed using the double arrow button next to each textbox. We have
collapsed the Condition textbox in Figure
12-2
to more easily display the configuration values in the other textboxes.
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