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IBM Cognos 10 Platform => Cognos 10 BI => Framework Manager => Topic started by: Joker on 25 Jul 2014 07:07:59 AM

Title: Usage Property
Post by: Joker on 25 Jul 2014 07:07:59 AM
Why non indexed columns are set as facts in usage property in cognos framework manager??
Title: Re: Usage Property
Post by: bi4u2 on 25 Jul 2014 12:02:36 PM
Framework Manager normally interprets numeric data as facts. Sometimes you might need to change this to Attribute if the field is not truly data that you would want to summarize.
Title: Re: Usage Property
Post by: Michael75 on 26 Jul 2014 12:25:01 PM
QuoteFramework Manager normally interprets numeric data as facts. Sometimes you might need to change this to Attribute if the field is not truly data that you would want to summarize.

Or, indeed, you might need to change this to Identifier if the column in question is a surrogate key (these are not always indexed).
Title: Re: Usage Property
Post by: Joker on 28 Jul 2014 05:35:33 AM
Quote from: bi4u2 on 25 Jul 2014 12:02:36 PM
Framework Manager normally interprets numeric data as facts. Sometimes you might need to change this to Attribute if the field is not truly data that you would want to summarize.

So FM assumes the indexed columns as identifiers and non indexed numeric columns as facts.Isn't it?
Title: Re: Usage Property
Post by: MFGF on 28 Jul 2014 05:37:38 AM
Quote from: Joker on 28 Jul 2014 05:35:33 AM
So FM assumes the indexed columns as identifiers and non indexed numeric columns as facts.Isn't it?

Columns defined as keys or used in indexes are assumed to be identifiers. For any other columns, FM then looks at the data type, and assumes any character data type columns are attributes and any numeric data type columns are facts.

Cheers!

MF.