The Dimensions view has settings for handling data for multidimensional analysis and uses buttons to specify those settings.
The following are buttons found in the Configure and Edit modes.
Name | Description | Function |
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Add | Button | Adds a dimension to a row, column or page dimensions. Added dimensions disappear from the Available dimensions list. |
Remove | Button | Removes a row, column or page dimension and moves it back to the Available dimensions list. |
Default | Button | Changes the current data settings according to the user role and the mode of the view. See Handling data below. |
Restore | Button | Changes the data current settings according to the user role and the mode of the view. See Handling data below. |
Show informational text | Check box | Shows the instructional text on the top of the view pages. |
Selecting, viewing and restoring the data in the Dimensions view depends on user role and the view mode.
Selecting data
User role | Mode | Settings | Description |
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Administrator | Configure | Initial settings | The Administrator specifies the primary settings of the view. This is done through the first configuration page in the view, where the Administrator can see and modify the data display. This may include: dimension selection, arrangement of layouts For example, the Administrator can select the Row, Column, and Page dimensions. . |
Administrator | Configure | Configuration settings | The Administrator can make some adjustments over the Initial settings. This is done through the second configuration page in the view, where the Administrator can see and modify the arrangement of dimensions in the table and chart. For example, moving a Row dimension to be a Page dimension. |
Privileged User | Edit | Personal settings | The Privileged User can make further adjustments over the Configuration settings. For example, moving a Row dimension to be a Page dimension. |
Viewing data
User role | Mode | Settings | Description |
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Administrator or Privileged User | View | One of the following: Personal setting, Configuration settings, or Initial settings. | If the Personal settings are unavailable due to an error in retrieving the settings, and if there is a problem in retrieving the Configuration settings , the Initial settings are used for displaying the information in the View mode. |
Restoring data
User role | Mode | Button | Function |
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Administrator | Configure | Default | Loads the last saved Initial settings. |
Administrator | Configure | Restore | Restores the last saved Configuration settings of the data, if available. Otherwise, the view will be rendered according to the last saved Initial settings. |
Privileged User | Edit | Default | Brings back the last saved Configuration settings of the data, if available. Otherwise, the view will be rendered according to the last saved Initial settings. |
Privileged User | Edit | Restore | Loads the last saved Personal settings of the data, if available. Otherwise, the view will be rendered according to the last saved Configuration settings, if available; otherwise, the last saved Initial settings. |
The Dimensions view displays data in the form of data layout panel (dimensions tree), table (grid), and graph (chart), as well as page filter (page dimension). Each of these forms is knows as a blox, as in the context of building blocks. To present the data within each blox in one page, the view uses a PresentBlox from DB2® Alphablox. The PresentBlox appears in the Configuration (preview) and View modes.
The following image is an example for a PresentBlox that contains a data layout panel, a grid, and a chart.