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Programatically load Hierarchy/Measure descriptions in SSAS by chenthorn

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Type: Suggestion
ID: 773743
Opened: 12/6/2012 7:19:43 PM
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I would like to be able to programatically populate both hierarchy and measure Description properties when building Tabular and Multi-dimensional models in Visual Studio.
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English

Category

Analysis Services

Proposed Solution

Best solution would be for Visual Studio to have functionality that imports the extended properties marked as comments from the base table used to store the cube's data.

Primary Benefit

Improved User Interface

Other Benefits

functionality would increase usage of value descriptions in cubes, thus making user experience much more friendly by making it more likely that developers would use the description properties to provide a sort of Data Dictionary for users. The value would greatly increase in a self service BI solution where having hte descriptions as part of the cube would make users much more likely to use them rather than a seperate document that they have to hunt down, if it exists at all.

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