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Report Dimensions

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Report Dimensions
Type CXO-Cockpit Design Studio Report Configuration
Audience CXO-Cockpit Captain
Difficulty Low
Applies to CXO-Cockpit Templates

Introduction

Together with the report parameters, the report dimensions define the look & feel and behavior of the reports. Use the report dimensions to define the following:

  • The way how the report queries the data from the source system
  • The way how the point of view bar is configured
  • The way how the central point of view works
  • The way how the point of view comments are stored

Every template and report has its own set of report dimensions. The report dimensions can be maintained from the CXO-Design Studio in the parameter panel.

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Template Dimensions vs Report Dimensions

Within the CXO-Design Studio you can edit both templates and reports. The templates are used to set the right defaults, the reports inherit these defaults and can be overwritten. When a report dimension is changed and saved, the background color of the report dimension turns blue. This means that the value differs from the template. If you want to restore the template default on your report, you can click the ´Template Default´ button.

Report Dimension Attributes

The report dimensions have the following attributes:

Attribute Description
Dimension This column contains all dimensions as specified in the CXO-Cockpit Dimensions
Initialization

The initialization attribute defines how each dimension is initialized upon opening of the report and has the following possible values:

  • Central: no specific value is specified and the value from a previous report is used. This is usually applied to the Entity, Year and Period dimension: when you selected a specific member for these dimensions on a previous report, you want to use these selections also on the current report
  • Central Top: with Central Top you can set a different node as Top Node. (Navigation is like "Central")
  • Initial: irrespective of the member selected in a previous report, the dimension is initialized to the specified member.
  • Initial Top: with Initial Top you can set a different node as Top Node. (Navigation is like " Initial")
Parameter The parameter attribute contains the dimension member or dimension variable for the dimension. This field can only be used when the initialization has been set to initial.
Value The value column is read only and is used to translates the dimension variables of the parameter attribute
POV Order

The POV order specifies two things:

  • If the dimension is displayed in the point of view bar or not (POV Order: 0 means not displayed)
  • At what position the dimension is displayed in the point of view bar
Narrative Key The narrative key defines the if this dimension is used to store the POV comments. If the entity, period and year dimensions are checked, this means that you see different comments for every entity, period and year combination. Normally you check the narrative key field for every dimension that has a POV Order higher than 0. An exception could be the currency/value dimension which can be part of the POV but does not require specific comments for every different currency.


 

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