We can drill down the
hierarchy further in this manner, or we can perform drill ups,
cross-dimensional drills and other actions. We can accomplish this by
using a right-click (with the resulting context menu), the Navigation
item in the main menu, and other options, for a data item upon which we wish to
gain further insight.
14. Right-click the USA field in the
display.
The context menu appears
as shown in Illustration 15.
Illustration 15: Context Menu
Options
Relevant options that
are available in the context menu are summarized in Table 1.
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Drill Down
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Displays next lower hierarchy level /
more information about member
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Drill Up
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Displays next higher hierarchy level
/ less information about member
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Expand
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Provides more detail about member / leaves
other members at their current hierarchy levels
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Collapse
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Displays member only / hides detail
associated with it
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Isolate
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Displays only selected member(s)
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Eliminate
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Removes selected member(s) from data
display
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Table 1: Context Menu Option Summary
15. Select Isolate --> Warehouses - USA from the context menu.
USA is isolated as the only row in
the display.
16. Click USA once to drill down to the three
states that make it up.
The drilldown occurs.
17. Right-click the CA data
field.
18. Via the context menu and cascading
menu, select Drill Down --> Select from List.
The Drill down selection
list appears. At this point, we are offered the capability to drill down across
dimensions, a highly useful capability that is not as
readily available in other business intelligence tools on the market
today.
19. Select / highlight only the [Product].All
Products
The Drill Down
selection list, with our choice highlighted appears as shown in Illustration
16.
Illustration 16: Drill Down Selection List - With Our Choice Highlighted
The display adjusts to
reflect our new drill down, and appears as depicted in Illustration 17.
Illustration 17: New Data Display,
Secondary Drill Down Result in Place
Notice, once more, the
Warehouse dimension tab contents. We are
seeing Children of USA, displayed in the Warehouse dimension
hierarchy as the selected members for the display.
We can continue to
drill further, return to prior displays by drilling up, or perform other
actions that we reviewed in Table 1. (Again, these are also
available by selecting Navigate in the main menu). For now, we will move
on to explore additional areas.
21. Select Book --> Add to Briefing Book from the main menu.
The Add to Briefing
Book dialog appears.
22. Name the page something that makes
sense. (I called mine ANSYS19-02.)
23. Click OK to save.
We will now draw our
article to a close with an examination of an advanced visualization feature of
ProClarity, Perspective analysis.
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