Using the Data Object Editor

We've mentioned the Data Object Editor previously. We used it in Chapter 2 to create our source metadata definitions for the ACME_POS transactional database, so let's take this opportunity to look a little closer at it. The Data Object Editor is the manual editor interface that the Warehouse Builder provides for us to create and edit objects. We did not have to use it to create a dimension, but more advanced implementations would definitely need to make use of it; for instance, to edit the cube to change the aggregation method that we just discussed. We'll take a brief look at it here before moving on to get an idea of some of the features it provides. We can get to the Data Object Editor from the Project Explorer by double-clicking on an object, or by highlighting an object (by selecting it with a single click), and then selecting Edit | Open Editor from the menu. Let's open the DATE_DIM dimension in the Data Object Editor and examine it as shown here:

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