Perspective Properties

In the Application Object Tree (AOT), under the Data Dictionary node, there is a Perspectives node. The following table describes the properties that can be set for each perspective.

For information about system properties available for a perspective, see System Properties. For information about properties for tables associated with a perspective, see Table Properties and Table Field Properties.

Property

Description

ConfigurationKey

Specifies the configuration key assigned to the perspective. The configuration key determines which configurations of Microsoft Dynamics AX a perspective is included for in generated report models.

HelpText

Create a string for the perspective that is used as a description in a report model.

ID

Specify the identifier of the perspective.

Label

Specify the displayed name of the perspective in a report model.

Name

Specify the unique name of the perspective.

Usage

Specifies the materialization options for a Microsoft Dynamics AX perspective. The following list contains the possible values for this property. The default is None.

  • AdHocReporting - The perspective will be used to generate a transactional Semantic Model Definition Language (SMDL) model.

  • OLAP - The perspective will be used to generate a cube in a SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) Business Intelligence project.

  • Both - The perspective will be to generate both a transactional SDML model and a cube in a SSAS Business Intelligence project.

  • None - The perspective will not be materialized.

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