Custom Groups and Consolidations Consolidations : Consolidations are used within templates to specify the data users wish to view in their report. Consolidations allow users to group attribute elements in new ways without changing the metadata and warehouse definitions. Consolidations enable users to create customized groupings that allow row calculations between elements of a given attribute. Custom groups ; A custom group is a special filter that can be placed on a template and is comprised of an ordered collection of elements called custom group elements. Each custom group element can be labeled with a header and includes a logical expression of attribute, metric, object, advanced or custom group banding qualifications. These qualifications resolve into a list of attribute elements once the report is run. Custom groups; therefore, provide a way to group attribute elements from the same or different attributes to meet user's reporting requirements. The follo...
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