## Edit Cube Element dialog

This dialog appears when you right-click any cube element of a business/report cube and select the edit command from the shortcut menu in the Catalog Browser. It helps you to edit the specified cube element according to your requirements, and consists of the following two tabs:

- General tab
- Security tab

### General tab

Sets properties for the cube element. See the tab.

Name

Specifies the name of the cube element.

Display Name

Specifies the display name of the cube element which is intuitive and will be shown on the JReport Web GUI.

Mapping Name

Specifies the mapping name of the column to which the cube element is mapped.

Type

Specifies the type of the cube element.

- Dimension
  Dimensions are the cube elements that will become the basis for analyzing data in a report. Dimensions characteristically return text data or dates.
- Measure
  Measures are numeric cube elements that have been calculated at the data warehouse level. The values they return are dependent on the objects that have been placed in the query.
- Detail Info
  Detail information provides additional information. It can be bound to dimension, measure or category. Detail information is not used for analysis but is useful to have.

Aggregate

Available only when the cube element is a measure object. It specifies the function for the measure object.

Prompt

Specifies the tip information of the cube element which will be shown when you hover the mouse pointer over the element in the Resource View panel of JReport Web.

Description

Specifies the description of the cube element which will be shown when you hover the mouse pointer over the element in the Resource View panel of JReport Web.

### Security tab

Specifies principals' permissions for the cube element. See the tab.

Role tab

Lists all the roles for the security policy.

- Role Name
  Displays role names.
- Visible
  Specifies whether or not the cube element is visible for roles.

Group tab

Lists all the groups for the security policy.

- Group Name
  Displays group names.
- Visible
  Specifies whether or not the cube element is visible for groups.

User tab

Lists all the users for the security policy.

- User Name
  Displays user names.
- Visible
  Specifies whether or not the cube element is visible for users.

Security Configuration

Opens the Security Configuration dialog to add or import principals.

OK

Applies all changes and closes the dialog.

Cancel

Does not retain changes and closes the dialog.

Help

Displays this help document.