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SAP BusinessObjects Reporting Cookbook

By : Yoav Yohav
Book Image

SAP BusinessObjects Reporting Cookbook

By: Yoav Yohav

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
SAP BusinessObjects Reporting Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Hiding dimensions


Hiding dimensions is an option that can be applied on dimension objects.

This option is useful when we don't want to show a specific object for viewing, for security reasons, or we don't want to change the aggregative level of the table.

Another reason could be that the dimension object is part of a complex calculation in the table and removing it may affect the formula result.

More reasons can be a dummy sort object (month number that we use to show the month names sorted chronologically) and a formula that returns 1/0 values that are used for a filter, but the values themselves don't hold a meaning.

Getting ready

We want to hide the City dimension object as well as understand what the difference is between deleting and hiding a dimension object.

How to do it...

We will right-click on the City object in the table and navigate to the Hide option, as shown in the following screenshot:

By choosing this option, the City column will be hidden:

Notice that the aggregative level of the...