Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Functionality
Multidimensional
Tabular
Translations
Yes
No
writeback
Yes
No
To the new user, the features in this list may be hard to understand, so I will take
some time explaining what all these functions and features do, and why you would
use them in some of your projects.
Actions
When building a BI solution there is sometimes a requirement that you should
be able to invoke an external command from within the analysis program. This is
something that you have the ability to do by using the feature called actions in mul-
tidimensional mode. You define the action as part of your cube; as an example you
can invoke a web page or report from your action.
The most common action is a drillthrough action that allows the users to go from an
aggregated level in the cube directly down to the lowest level of the cube. The de-
velopers have the ability to define which measures and dimension attributes should
be returned to the user when executing the action. This can be extremely useful to a
business user who quickly wants to see which values build up a certain aggregation.
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