Lesson 9: Defining Perspectives and Translations
In this lesson, you learn to define perspectives and translations. You can define perspectives to reduce the apparent complexity of a cube, and define translations that let users view the cube metadata in the language of their choice.
Note
A completed project through Lesson 8 is available by downloading and installing the updated samples. For more information, see Obtaining Updated Samples in Installing Samples.
This lesson contains the following tasks:
- Defining and Browsing Perspectives
In this task, you define and browse perspectives to simplify the view of the cube for specific users or uses.
- Defining and Browsing Translations
In this task, you define and browse translations of specific metadata to certain languages.
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See Also
Concepts
Analysis Services Tutorial Scenario
SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Tutorial
Other Resources
Perspectives
Defining and Configuring a Perspective
Dimension Translations
Cube Translations
Working with Translations (SSAS)