Implementing perspectives
Perspectives are similar to views in relational databases. Perspectives allow you to create views of the model that may serve a specific function or help a specific user group. For instance, you could create perspectives that only show finance measures and dimensions. You can reduce the number of visible tables and the fields for users to make the user experience better.
Note
While tempting, you should not use perspectives as a security tool. They are not designed for security but for ease of use and visual organization of the model.
Getting ready
You will be expanding on the model we have been working on throughout this chapter. We will be creating a perspective that focuses on product orders and hides most of the customer data.
How to do it…
Similar to partitions in the previous recipe, you can open the Perspectives dialog from the toolbar or menu and then perform the following steps:
- In the Perspectives dialog, click on the New Perspective button. You can name...
