Add Cube Element dialog

This dialog appears when you right-click a business/report cube in the Catalog Browser and select Add Cube Element from the shortcut menu. It helps you to add a new cube element into a business/report cube, and consists of the following two tabs:

• General tab
• Security tab

General tab

Specifies properties of 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
  Dimension objects are the cube elements that will become the basis for analyzing data in a report. They characteristically return text data or dates.
• Measure
  Measure objects 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 objects provide additional information. They can be bound to dimension, measure or category. Detail information objects are not used for analysis but are useful to have.

Aggregate

Available only when the type of the cube element is defined as 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 to the cube element. See the tab.

Role tab

Lists all the roles for the current security policy.

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

Group tab

Lists the groups for the current security policy.

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

User tab

Lists the users for the current security policy.

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

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.