Referencing Data in Another Cube

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Lawrence Grace · Oct 31, 2019

#HealthShare #InterSystems IRIS BI (DeepSee)

I have a cube that lists services, processes, and operations information and wanted to make the names of the items more user-friendly to end users and to use a flag to determine which components would be displayed in the dashboard.

We created another table/cube that has a status flag (1/0) to determine whether we would look at the item, the existing name, and the human-readable name.

What is the best way to reference the data in the new cube from the original cube to use the human-readable name?

Thank you, LG

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Sam Duncan · Nov 1, 2019

Hi Lawrence,

You can create cube relationships as documented here, which will allow you to reference data in one cube from another cube (if records in the source class of one cube are related to records in the source class of the other). However, if I'm understanding your question correctly, that may not be the best approach in your case.

For one thing, I'm not sure why you have created two cubes instead of one cube with some additional elements. Is each of these items you're discussing a single record (i.e. a fact in your cube)? Or is it a property of each record (i.e. a model element in your cube)? If it's the former, you could add properties to your existing levels as necessary, whose values could be the human-readable names, generated/fetched if necessary by source expressions. If it's the latter, you could add display names to these elements in your cube definition.

It sounds to me like it might make sense to open a WRC issue to work with support on these questions, since they're fairly specific to the cubes you are creating - please feel free to do that if you'd like, and one of my colleagues or I will be able to work with you on this.

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