# Cube

Base element for cube elements within a report.

### Description

The cube is an abstract element that defines the basic properties of a OLAP cube element. The derived elements, tabular and ODA cube elements, provide dimension and measure group contents that are defined in this cube itself.

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## filter

Filter criteria to apply to query result in the cube element.

### Description

The filter property specifies filter criteria to apply to each row in the data set. The filter can contain BIRT expressions (in JavaScript.) If you want the database to do the filtering, put the filter criteria in the WHERE clause of your query.

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