Managing Links

Note Links refer to merged dimensions, which is the term used in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence.

To create or modify a link, the following conditions must be respected:

  • You can only link dimensions, attributes and hierarchies.
  • The expressions to link must have the same data type.
  • Each expression that you link to must be from a different data provider.
  • The expressions that you link to must not be already used in another link.
  • You cannot link to expressions that have been stripped (no query stripping allowed).
  • The expressions must be compatible.

About compatibility:

  • All custom formulas and variables will be considered as compatible to any other expressions and then ignored.
  • Measures are always compatible with everything.
  • If dimension A is linked, then A is compatible with all expressions in the flow lists that contain the link.
  • Two dimensions or attributes from different flow lists are incompatible. Except when a dimension in linked, as mentioned above.

Below are the main tasks you can perform on the links of a report.