Selecting and Setting Up Data Consumer

A consumer determines an object, which data will be aggregated and to which data will be loaded after a block is calculated.

A data consumer can be selected and set up on the Consumer page in the aggregation block editing wizard:

To select and set up a data consumer:

  1. Select the data consumer in the drop-down list.
    The following repository objects can be used as a data consumer:
  2. Set up filtering of the selected dimension. To do this:

The Set Up Filtering dialog box opens, in which determine data consumer dimension filtering settings.

As a result, the data consumer in the aggregation block is set up.

Setting Up Data Consumer Dimension Filtering

To select dimension elements, by which a block should be calculated, use the Set Up Filtering dialog box:

Setup order:

  1. Select elements, by which a block should be calculated. Select one of the radio buttons:

If it is required that a block is calculated by all the elements except for the selected ones, select the Exclude Selected Elements checkbox.

  1. To set the conditions, with which element attributes must satisfy on block calculation, use the Advanced Filter group of parameters. Working with this group of parameters is similar to working with the Advanced Filter dialog box.

As a result, a block will be calculated only by elements corresponding to the filter.

See also:

Inserting and Setting Up Aggregation Blocks