CubeAttribute Data Type (ASSL)

Defines a primitive data type that represents an attribute associated with a Cube element.

Syntax

  
<CubeAttribute>  
   <AttributeID>...</AttributeID>  
   <AggregationUsage>...</AggregationUsage>  
   <AttributeHierarchyOptimizedState>...</AttributeHierarchyOptimizedState>  
   <AttributeHierarchyEnabled>...</AttributeHierarchyEnabled>  
   <AttributeHierarchyVisible>...</AttributeHierarchyVisible>  
   <Annotations>...</Annotations>  
</CubeAttribute>  

Data Type Characteristics

Characteristic	Description
Base data types	None
Derived data types	None

Data Type Relationships

Relationship	Element
Parent elements	None
Child elements	AggregationUsage, Annotations, AttributeHierarchyEnabled, AttributeHierarchyOptimizedState, AttributeHierarchyVisible, AttributeID
Derived elements	Attribute (Attributes collection of CubeDimension)

Remarks

The AttributeHierarchyOptimizedState element is not supported when running the service in DeploymentMode configuration property values of 1 or 2 (SharePoint or Tabular modes, used to run Power Pivot and tabular model databases).

An attribute cannot be added as a level of a hierarchy when the property, AtttributeHierarchyEnabled, is set to FALSE and the instance is operating under DeploymentMode 1 or 2 (SharePoint or Tabular server mode).

Attributes in the CubeDimension element that are not explicitly included in the Attributes collection become part of the collection with default values assigned to them. After attributes are added to the collection, the attributes can be returned by the Discover method.

The AggregationUsage element controls how Analysis Services automatically designs aggregations for the attribute. The AggregationUsage element does not constrain any aggregations that are manually created for the cube.

The corresponding element in the Analysis Management Objects (AMO) object model is CubeAttribute.

See Also

Analysis Services Scripting Language XML Data Types (ASSL)