Extended Data Items

You can do the following with extended data items that are not available with traditional data items:

• View details

  You can select an extended data item and then, from the Data menu, click Data Properties to see where the data item appears in the package and in the report queries.

• Select member sets

  You can select a member in a set to highlight it as the primary selection and the other members as secondary selections.

• Sort sets

  You can select an extended data item, click the sort button , and click Advanced Set Sorting to sort a set in ascending or descending order, to sort hierarchically, and to sort by caption, by a property, or by an intersection (tuple).

• Apply contextual calculations

  You can select an extended data item and then, from the Data menu, click Calculate to see a contextual list of calculations that are available for this extended data item.