- In the Layout panel or the report, right-click the field name.
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Click Tell me
about from the menu.
The About dialog box displays for the field.
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View the following information
about the field:
Field property Description Display Name The name of the field as it appears in the Available Fields list and your report. If you renamed this field in the report, a notification with the original name will display below.
If you are assigned the Manage Data Sources permission, you can edit the name for this field. The edited name will display in the Available Fields list, as well as in the Layout panel and the Report pane unless you have renamed the field. Renaming a field within the Layout panel or the report pane will not affect the display name of the field in the Available Fields list.
Type The type of field, such as level, time, or measure. Description The description of the field, if any. MDX The formula for the level or field as an MDX statement. Member Properties If a field has a number in parenthesis next to it in the Available Fields list, such as Customer(6), that means that the dimension has member properties associated with it. When you open the About dialog box, you will also see a list of the Member Properties in addition to the other details about the field.
If you open the field layout, you can see your dimensions in either the Row Labels or Col Headers fields, depending on how you have them oriented. To constrain a dimension by controlling its member properties, right-click on a dimension in the row label or column header fields, then select Show Properties from the context menu. A sub-menu with all available member properties appears. Check or clear the member property boxes to add or remove them from the report.
You can view the definition of a level or
measure field from the Layout panel and the report in Analyzer. The definition includes
those attributes which defined the field when the data model was built.