Measure configuration - dimension type

The variantdim element is used to define the variant dimension. It has just three attributes and nested leveldesc elements for configuring the attributes used to feed the two levels.

Attributes of the variantdim element are:

XML tag

Description

name

keyword as used in paramset (required)

comment

comment for dimension (optional)

dimgroup

name of the group this dimension is assigned to (optional)

Each dimension level (leveldesc) has exactly one dimitem as value and a description is not allowed for both dimension level. Only the attrname element is required for the dimitem element.

XML tag

Description

attrname

Name of the referenced attribute, containing the dimension data. Only the TEXT data type is permitted.

Typically variant dimension is defined as follows.

<variantdim name="D_EPC_VARIANT">

<description language="en" name="Variant" />

<description language="de" name="Variante" />

<leveldesc>

<dimitem attrname="AT_INTERNAL_FUNCTION_FLOW_VARIANT">

<description language="en" name="Combined variant" />

<description language="de" name="Kombinierte Variante" />

</dimitem>

</leveldesc>

<leveldesc>

<dimitem attrname="AT_INTERNAL_PRECISE_VARIANT">

<description language="en" name="Precise variant" />

<description language="de" name="Präzise Variante" />

</dimitem>

</leveldesc>

</variantdim>