Measure

Base element for measure elements within a cube.

Description

The measure is an abstract element that defines the basic properties of a measure element. It has two derived elements: tabular and ODA measure elements.

Measure is the quantity that you are interested in measuring, for example, unit sales of a product, or cost price of inventory items.

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measureExpression

The BIRT expression that defines the value of the measure element.

Description

The expression that gets evaluated and its resulting value assigned to the measure element. If the isCalculated is false, then the value of this property should be a column name. If it is true, the value of this property should be an expression for the computed measure.

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function

The aggregation function applied to this measure.

Choices

Description

This property gives out the function that user wants to apply on this measure.

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dataType

Measure data type property.

Description

This property gives out the data type of the measure resulting data.

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isCalculated

Indicate whether this measure is computed by other measures.

Description

This property indicates whether this measure is computed by other measures. True if it is calculated by other measures; otherwise false. By default, its value is FALSE.

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