CHAPTER 8Lists of Values and Parameters
The list of values is a powerful feature that allows users to select from a pick list when setting conditions in a query. You as a designer determine which dimensions have lists of values via the dimension properties.
Because users can select conditions from a list of values, they do not need to enter conditions manually, and therefore do not need to memorize lists of codes or guess how many leading zeros there may be in a particular field. The IDT allows you to customize the default list of values even further to present meaningful names with the codes or to shorten particularly long lists into more meaningful subsets of valid filters.
Lists of values can be based on a business layer object, a static list ...
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