In Analyzer, you can work with measures in several ways to accomplish tasks, such as renaming a measure, creating a calculated measure, and editing a calculated measure.
When updating the details of a measure or adding a calculated measure, you are making changes to the data model from within Analyzer. When you save these changes, they are now a part of the data source for other users to access. We call these types of changes to the data source inline modeling since these changes are reflected immediately in the data source you are working with. This approach allows you to make model changes easily in Analyzer which benefits other users immediately.
To make these types of changes, you must be assigned the Manage Data Sources operation permission in Users and Roles. For more information on setting and maintaining permissions and roles for users, see Use Pentaho Security.