
Tips Recipes Brio 2002
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Section Type: Query section
Tip Name: Creating Read-Only Computed Items
Purpose / Use: To provide users with standard computed items that they can use but
not modify. This insures that all users have common computational
definitions.
Sample File: Read-only computed items.bqy
Steps to Produce: To create read-only computations, you will build one or more computed
items pre-defined in the query’s data model, and then promote the
query’s data model to a read-only locked Master Data Model.
1) Build a regular data model as you normally would.
2) Right-click on each topic in the title bar and promote it to be a meta-topic. (Computed
items in a data model can only be added to a meta-topic.)
3) Rename each meta-topic (if desired) by double-clicking on the meta-topic’s title bar and
changing the Topic Name property.
4) Select the meta-topic to which you want to add the computed items, then use the
DataModel | Add Meta Topic Item menu selection to define the new computed item(s).
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