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Creating Analytic Model Definitions Chapter 4

• Define formulas and user functions to calculate the data cubes.

Define a formula for each data cube that you want to calculate. If you want to reuse the formula

in more than one data cube, create a user function and reference the user function in the formula

for each of the data cubes.

See C

hapter 10

, “Creating Rules, Formulas, and User Functions,” Defining and Editing Data Cube

Formulas, pag

e 119.

• Attach dimens

ions to the data cubes.

Attach the dim

ensions to the data cubes after you have created the dimensions and data cubes.

See C

hapter 6, “Creating Dimensions,” Attaching a Dimension to a Data Cube, page 50.

• Define the analytic model’s cube collections.

See C

hapter 7, “Creating Cube Collections,” page 53.

• Define the analytic model definition’s filter functions.

See C

hapter 10

, “Creating Rules, Form ulas, a nd User Functions,” Filter User Functions, page 113.

•Definetheana

lytic model definition’s organizers.

See C

hapter 4, “Creating Analytic Model Definitions,” Creating Organizers, page 29.

3. Save the analytic model definition.

Understandin

g Conventions for Naming Analytic

Models and Parts

You must adhe

re to these rules when naming analytic models and all analytic model parts:

• Names must consist only of letters, numbers, and underscores (_).

Other than underscores, do not use n onalphanumeric characters.

• All letters must be uppercase.

• The first character in a name must c onsist of a letter.

Do not use a number or underscore as the first character in a name.

• Blank spaces are not allowed in names.

Use underscores instead of blank spaces.

• Names must not exceed 30 characters.