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Example 5—Using the Exists Function to Specify an Allowed Set

In this example, a database role has the dimension security settings that are shown in the following table.

Attribute

IsAllowed

AllowedSet

DeniedSet

ApplyDenied

VisualTotals

State

True

 

 

True

True

City

True

{San Jose, San Francisco}

 

True

True

Gender

False

 

 

True

False

The results of these dimension security settings are the following:

  • The allowed set that is specified for the City attribute limits the visibility of newly added members of the City attribute.

  • Only the California member of the State attribute will be visible. (The allowed set for the City attribute only includes San Jose and San Francisco—both cities in California. This means that the allowed set not only limits the City attribute, but also limits the visibility of the State attribute to only California.)

  • The Gender attribute is not visible because the IsAllowed property for this attribute is set to False.

  • The aggregated totals for the State and All Level attributes include only those attribute members that are viewable by the database role (in this case, the totals for San Jose and San Francisco) because the VisualTotals property for both the City and State attributes are set to True.

Reviewing the Result Set

Based on these dimension security settings for the role (and based on cube access to all cells), the following result set is returned from the cube when all members are queried.

All Level

State

City

Gender

Sales Amount

All Offices

 

 

 

8600

 

California

 

 

8600

 

 

San Jose

 

4200

 

 

San Francisco

 

4400