Add a New Period to the Period Dimensions Table

1. Use SAS Table Editor, or SAS Enterprise Guide, or another editor to add the period to the dimension table.
   
   Note: After modifying the table, you must use SAS Management Console to re-import it into your input directory. Importing does not copy the file itself — it updates the metadata maintained by the SAS Management Console.
   
   

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2. Activate the Transactions workspace.
3. Select the model that contains the period dimension table.

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4. Select Actions Refresh to add the period to the list.
   
   

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5. Click Change analysis settings and verify that the new period is listed in the Analysis Settings window.
   
   Note: The periods listed under analysis settings are the periods that are to be included in a cube. Any period that is selected for inclusion in a cube must have been selected at some point when you calculate the model (see step 8 below).
   
   
   

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6. Add rows for the new period to the behavior table.
   
   

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7. Add transaction tables to all of the table groups.
   
   When you add a transaction table to a transaction table group, you must assign a period to the transaction table.
   
   Note: Each transaction table in a model can have only one period. And, each period in a model can have only one transaction table. (If you encounter the error Several transaction tables are assigned to the same period, it is because a transaction table exists in the table group that is assigned to that period.)
8. Calculate the model.
   
   Only new periods need to be calculated.

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9. Calculate the summary cubes.
   
   Clicking Generate cube will process all periods because the cubes are made across multiple periods.