SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise InfoView User's Guide

You can use the Member Selector or the metadata explorer to choose the members to be displayed in your crosstabs and charts. The Member Selector includes features that let you search for members, aggregate search results, select members by level, and select parent, child, and sibling members. The metadata explorer provides only basic manual selection of members.

The rest of this section describes selecting members using the Member Selector. For more information about the metadata explorer, see the section on the data tab metadata explorer in the BusinessObjects Voyager User's Guide.

When you place a dimension on any of the three axes on chart and crosstab components, a Member Selector button is shown beside the dimension name. The Member Selector helps you choose members of the dimensions you place on those axes.

Additionally, a measures Member Selector in the component's title bar lets you select members of the measures dimension whether or not you have explicitly added the measures dimension to one of the three axes. If you add only fact dimensions to the axes, the crosstab is still populated with data; Voyager automatically selects the default member of the measures dimension and uses that member's data to populate the crosstab. At all times, the measures used to populate the crosstab with data are shown in the crosstab's title bar, and you can use the measures Member Selector to select measures for the crosstab.

You can select members in several ways: