Defining a measure based on a relational column

In IBM® Cognos® Cube Designer, you can define a measure based on a relational column. To create measures, add a cube and then create measures in the measure dimension folder under the cube.

For information about creating calculated measures, see Calculated members.

Procedure

  1. From the Project Explorer tree, expand your cube.
  2. Right-click the measure dimension measure dimension icon and select Open Editor.
  3. From the Data Source Explorer, drop a table column onto the Editor pane.

    The mapping to the associated column is automatically created. The Property fields are initialized from the table column values.