Additional information: User-defined measures based on process instance-independent measures

If a user-defined measure created based on process instance-independent measures is used in the analysis with dimensions, which are defined for all measures involved, the user-defined measure only returns values if values of the relevant dimension step can be determined for all measures (intersection of dimension values involved).

When using process instance-independent measures with a strict dimension reference in the calculation of user-defined measures, take account of the following additional points:

If these two requirements are not met, an information dialog like the following is shown when the user-defined measure is called up:

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Example

The user-defined measure Total costs consists of process costs and overhead costs.
The process measure Process costs returns values based on process instances from the months of January to March 2001 and June to December 2001.
The process instance-independent measure Overhead costs has values for Jan to Jun 2001.

With a monthly analysis in 2001, the user-defined measure Total costs only returns values for the months of January, February, March and June 2001.