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Track Changes in a Measure in Future Time Periods .
Track Monthly Performance Measures in Different Time Periods.
Setting up Special Categories
Create a New Special Category .
Create Special Category Levels .
Disable Rollup on Special Categories .
Resolving the Parentage of Orphan Categories.
Resolve Invalid Date Errors .
Adjust the Date Range to Encompass Early and Late Dates .
Set up a Manual Level for Unknown Categories .
Prevent New Categories from Being Added to a Dimension .
Verifying Your Model .
Generating Categories from a Specified Data Source .
Chapter 5. Modeling Your Key Performance Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Add a Regular Measure .
Define a Measure Folder .
Define a Measure that Counts Categories
Define a Calculated Measure
Define When Measures are Calculated .
Specify How Missing Values Appear .
Reverse the Sign of Measure Values in Financial Models .
Cognos Transformer Functions .
Controlling How Measures Roll Up .
Set a Regular Rollup Function for Measures .
Create Cubes with External Rollups .
Set a Time State Rollup Function for Measures .
Ignore Null and Missing Values in Specified Time State Rollups .
Set Regular and Time State Rollup Together .
Consolidation . . . .
Example - Consolidating Data Using Duplicates Rollup (Sum) .
Set a Duplicates Rollup Function for Measures .
Allocating Measures . .
Show the Scope for a Measure.
Set Dimension Allocation
Set Level Allocation .
Set Category Allocation .
Suppress Allocation .
Setting Up Currency Conversion .
Enabling Conversion Using a Base Currency Table .
Enable Conversion Using a Euro Table .
Update a Currency Table Manually .
Chapter 6. Creating PowerCubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Create a Single PowerCube .
Create a Cube Group . .
Defining a Time-based Partitioned Cube .
Advantages of a Time-based Partitioned Cube .
Disadvantages of a Time-based Partitioned Cube
Create a Time-based Partitioned Cube Group.
Processing Issues Related to Time-based Partitioned Cubes .
Customizing a Time-based Partitioned Cube .
Exclude Measures from a Cube .
Omit Dimensions from a Cube
Customizing Cube Content with Views.
Create a Dimension View .
Omit Categories Using Suppress .
Omit Categories Using Cloak .
Omit Categories Using Exclude .
Omit Descendant Categories Using Summarize .
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