Special case: Register referenced dimensions

If a process instance-independent measure relates to dimensions that are not available at the same process tree element as the process instance-independent measure, the dimensions must be registered using the usepidim XML element within the useki element at the process tree element of the process instance-independent measure.

Example (previous example continued):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<!DOCTYPE processtree SYSTEM

"KeyindicatorProcesstree.dtd">

<processtree name="Processes">

...

<processtypegroup name="Shipping">

...

<useki name="OVERHEAD_COSTS" scale="EUR" assessment="NEG">

<usepidim name="PRINCIPAL"/>

</useki>

<usedim name="D_COLOR" />

<usedim name="D_EQUIPMENT" />

<usedim name="D_PRODUCT" />

<processtype name="...">

...

</processtype>

</processtypegroup>

...

</processtree>

The dimension principal (PRINCIPAL) is registered together with the process instance-independent measure OVERHEAD_COSTS at the Shipping process type group, at which the dimension itself is not registered via the usedim element.
The dimension referenced by the process instance-independent data series and thus registered serves only analysis purposes pertaining to the process instance-independent measure OVERHEAD_COSTS.

Dimensions registered using the usepidim XML element cannot be used for measure calculation at process instance level.