Omit Descendant Categories Using Summarize - IBM Cognos User Manual

from your cube, so that users only see data for the United Kingdom and Canada.
You create the dimension view and apply it to the PowerCube object. All data
associated with the excluded categories is omitted from the resulting cube and its
related reports.
Excluded categories are not included in category counts, and values associated
with them are not included in rolled-up measure values. This differs from the
Cloak, Summarize, and Suppress options, which act on the categories but have no
effect on the data written to the cube.
In dimensions with alternate drill-down paths, excluding categories from one path
excludes the same categories from all other drill-down paths.
To support the calculation of relative time categories for the cube, do not suppress
or exclude weekend days (Saturdays and Sundays) and their associated measure
values.
Procedure
1. Open the Categories diagram for the dimension that contains the categories or
level to be excluded and, if you have not already done so, add a dimension
view.
For more information, see "Create a Dimension View" on page 133.
2. In the Dimensions pane, select your new view.
3. In the category viewer, select the categories or level to be excluded and, from
the Diagram menu, click Exclude.
4. Open the PowerCube property sheet, and click the Dimensions tab.
5. In the Dimensions list, right-click the dimension in which you created the
dimension view and click View.
6. In the Select a View dialog box, select the dimension view that you created,
and click OK twice.

Omit Descendant Categories Using Summarize

When you create a dimension view and use the Summarize option on a category,
you remove the data associated with the descendants of the selected category, but
roll up their measure values to the summarized level. When you summarize all
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