Working with Numeric Ranges

In many cases, you can use one rules file in a dimension build operation to dynamically build attribute dimensions for numeric ranges and to associate the members of the base dimension with the ranges. In the following situations, however, you must use two rules files: one to build the attribute dimension and one to associate the attributes with the appropriate members of the base dimension:

The Population attribute dimension shown in Figure 86, Numeric Attribute Dimension with Different-Sized Ranges demonstrates both situations. Population is a multilevel, numeric attribute dimension with level 0 members representing ranges of different sizes.

Figure 86. Numeric Attribute Dimension with Different-Sized Ranges

This image shows a numeric attribute dimension with different-sized ranges, as described in the text preceding the image.

You must use one rules file to build the Population dimension and another rules file to associate the Population dimension members as attributes of members of the base dimension.