The Data Components Editor
The Data Components Editor enables you to add and the edit metrics/accounts
in the Data Components menu in Adaptive Mumbleware's Visual Designer..
You can organize your metrics/accounts into folders by right-clicking
the parent folder and selecting Add
> Metric
folder in the right-click menu. Click and drag metrics/accounts into the
folders where you want to keep them.
To create a calculated metric:
- Click Edit Metrics in the Actions menu.
The Data Components Editor opens.
- Select the folder where you want the calculated metric to be stored,
then right-click t.
- Select Add > Calculated Metric from the right-click menu.
- Use the fields to design your calculated metric.
- Click Apply.
- Click Close.
A summary of the editor's fields:
- Settings tab
- Name - The name of
the metric/account.
- Short
Name - The name to be used where the metric/account
short name is displayed.
- Budget
Name - The name of the corresponding budget/target
version.
- Units - The units of
the metric’s/account’s values. When you click this field, fields
appear that let you specify the unit family, type, and the specific
unit you want to use for this metric.
- Minimum Period Type
- Non-selectable time granularity
- Expression tab (calculated
metrics only)
- Disabled Variable Handling
- Behavior if one of more metrics used in the calculation are
disabled.
- The options are:
- Disable Metric
- Disable the calculated metric as well
- Ignore Variable
- Ignore the metric that was disabled and compute the calculated
metric based on the other metrics
- Null Variable Handling
- Behavior if one or more metrics used in the calculation have
a null value. The options are:
- Use null value
- Use null in the calculation
- Use zero - Use a value
of 0 instead of null value
- Expression - The expression
to be used in the calculated metric.
Click the arrow icon to see a list of the available fields and
functions. Begin typing in any field to narrow the list of functions
until you find the one you want. For assistance in creating the
expression, click the metric formula help link under the Expression
field.
- Dimensions tab
- Mapped Dimensions -
The list of dimensions that will be available for drill for the
metric. The default is all dimensions. Use the check boxes to
disable particular dimensions.