Temporary Entity

Arpan

Just like we have temporary cubes in procedures sometime we need dummy entites of one or two members may be more depending upon calculations, so like temporary cubes how about having temporary entites??

Walter Andreß

That would be really great - had the same idea a couple of weeks ago.

Product Management Team

Thank you for sharing your idea, @Arpan. We appreciate the time and effort you put into crafting your suggestion.

In order to evaluate this idea further, we would love to ask you if you please could provide us with more use cases?

Navan Mehra

@Product Management Team

Team, One use case that I can think of is the ability to use Time functions on the cubes which have only one of the Time entities as the dimension. In such scenarios, we need to create cubes and add dummy entities just to calculate time functions and then roll up the cube data into cubes with just the Time entity. The ability to perform such calculations without adding a dummy entity to the model would be helpful.