Element Attributes

The elements identify data in a cube, and the element attributes describe the elements themselves.

You can use attributes to:

List features of elements. For example, the square footage of a store and the engine size of a car model.
Provide alternative names, or aliases. For example, descriptive names of general ledger accounts and the local language versions of product names.
Control the display format for the numeric data. Typically, you select a display format for the measures you track in a cube.

You can select elements by attribute value in the Subset Editor. You can also display element names in TM1® dialog boxes using their aliases.

To create attributes and assign attribute values, use the Attributes Editor.