SAS Namespace Types

Measure

Subtypes

CalculatedMeasure

Overview

A special dimension that contains summarized numeric data values that are analyzed. Total Sales and Average Revenue are examples of measures. For example, you might drill down within the Clothing hierarchy of the Product dimension to see the value of the Total Sales measure for the Shirts member.

Security Inheritance and Enforcement Rules

The following list of associations is used to determine if this object should inherit access controls from another object (inheritance), or if the association is allowed for the object (enforcement). An association will not be created unless the calling user is authorized to update one or both objects involved in the association. For more information about inheritance and enforcement rules, see the SAS Intelligence Platform: Security Administration Guide.

OwningDimension

Attributes

Name	Description	Type	Length
IsStoredStatistic	True if the statistic is precalculated, false if the statistic need to be calculated.	int
Statistic	Later we will add a list of recommended string values.	String	200
UniqueName	The unique name for a measure	String	256
Units	The units of the measure.	String	32

Inherited Attributes
Name, Id, Desc, MetadataCreated, MetadataUpdated, ChangeState, ColumnLength, ColumnName, ColumnType, IsHidden, LockedBy, PublicType, SASFormat, SASInformat, SecTransctxt, UsageVersion

Associations

= indicates the resident side of an association, or where the association is persisted for cross-repository associations. If no resident side is indicated, this association may not cross repository boundaries.

Name

Cardinality

Description

Associated Types

Cubes

Partner: Measures

0 to *

The cubes that contain this measure.

Cube

OwningDimension

Partner: Measures

1 to 1

The dimension that contains this measure.

Dimension
SharedDimension

Inherited Associations
AccessControls/Objects, Changes/Objects, CustomAssociations/OwningObject, Documents/Objects, Extensions/OwningObject, ExternalIdentities/OwningObject, FavoritesContainers/Favorites, Groups/Members, Implementors/ImplementedObjects, Keywords/Objects, LocalizedAttributes/AssociatedLocalizedObject, Notes/Objects, PrimaryPropertyGroup/AssociatedObject, Prompts/PromptEnabledObject, Properties/AssociatedObject, PropertySets/OwningObject, ReferencedObjects/AssociatedObjects, ResponsibleParties/Objects, SourceFeatureMaps/FeatureSources, SourceTransformations/TransformationSources, SpecSourceTransformations/SourceSpecifications, SpecTargetTransformations/TargetSpecifications, TargetFeatureMaps/FeatureTargets, TargetTransformations/TransformationTargets, Timestamps/Objects, Trees/Members, TSObjectNamespace/TSObjects, UsedByPrototypes/UsingPrototype, UsingPrototype/UsedByPrototypes, Variables/AssociatedObject

Attribute Details

IsStoredStatistic
     Type: int
True if the statistic is precalculated, false if the statistic need to be calculated.

Statistic
     Type: String 200
Later we will add a list of recommended string values.

UniqueName
     Type: String 256
The unique name for a measure

Units
     Type: String 32
The units of the measure.

Association Details

Cubes
     Cardinality: 0 to *
     Partner: Measures

The cubes that contain this measure.

Associated Types:
Cube

OwningDimension
     Cardinality: 1 to 1
     Partner: Measures

The dimension that contains this measure.

Associated Types:
Dimension, SharedDimension

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