Summary

In this chapter, we discussed the D-List in detail. We showed you several ways of importing items into a D-List. You can update the D-List manually or automatically by using the D-List update function. When you update the D-List automatically, you can modify the item names by using the Unique names function. After you create the D-List, you can insert formulas, formats, and calculation options. The program provides BiFs that perform complex calculations that span a period of time. When writing formulas, you must take the priorities in calculation into consideration. You can overcome conflicts in calculations by enabling the calculation priority option in the D-List, or by using the order of dimensions in a D-Cube. Finally, we discussed ...

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