Exercise – creating Attributes

In this exercise, you will learn to create Attributes. Take the following steps:

  1. Open your new MicroStrategy Essentials project and go to the Schema Objects | Attributes folder.
  1. Right-click New | Attribute.
  2. The Attribute Editor will open the three nested windows. In the innermost, the For Expression must be defined. Select the LU_COUNTRY table.
  3. Double-click on the COUNTRY_ID column. Leave Automatic mapping | OK.
  4. You should now be on the second window, the Form Editor. Verify that the lookup (in bold) table is LU_COUNTRY. Which other table is selected? If you had selected the Manual method, none of the tables would have been selected and you must manually check which should be used.
  5. As shown in the following ...

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