Mandatory dimensions / consistency checks in quick layout

Etienne CAUSSE

Context - When designing data entry screens, we are often in the situation where we want to give a maximum flexibility to the end user to choose the most relevant axis. Quick layout is great for that.



Issue - However we often have the situation where at least one dimension is mandatory, otherwise figures don't make sense. Typically, when entering data in a cube in reporting currency, we need to keep at least the currency in the dimensions.

Idea : allow some entities to be set as "mandatory" in quick layout so the user can add / change other dimensions, but cannot remove the entities specified as "mandatory".

This could be generalized to the data model by specifying for some cubes which entities can be cumulated for the cube, and which cannot (ex. "phase" entity to split actual and budget, any report that does not select a phase or split by phase would be meaningless).

Nicolas CHIGROS

I like the idea. However, in a slightly different context, I wouldn't mind users to still be able to remove the "mandatory" entities as long as it disable the data entry. Maybe having both possibility would be nice.

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Etienne CAUSSE

Hi,

is it archived or on the contrary implemented in Board 14 ? I understand the latter…