The purpose of the Name property is to provide a user-friendly descriptor for the
dimension member, and each dimension member is assigned a name when it is
created. The Label is the primary identifier of objects throughout the system, and
each dimension member is assigned a label when it is created. The Description
property provides a description of the dimension member. Though this is a required
member property and must exist for each dimension, populating this property
with values is optional. Planning Business Modeler uses the previously mentioned
required dimension member properties to manage dimension members.
User-defined dimension member properties are a very powerful feature in PPS
Planning System, which can be used to track any behavior or characteristic of
Figure 7-16 The Member Maintenance tab of the new Employee dimension shows the
default NONE member. The right pane shows the Dimension Tasks available
for this dimension.
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dimension members of both predefined and user-defined dimensions. The rest of this
section will describe how a user-defined dimension member property can be created.
The first step in creating a user-defined dimension member property in any
dimension is to check out that dimension. You can be check out a dimension by
clicking on it in the Dimension Workspace, and then clicking the Check Out link
in the Dimension Tasks pane on the right side.
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