To explore a basic introduction to creating views, visit the Creating a View page.
When building a view, you have several methods available to you, including;
See Drag & Drop View Builder for more information.
The view builder for a composite view differs in that rather than displaying tables from a selected database it allows you to join existing Yellowfin views together and create virtual tables from any defined database.
We strongly recommend the use of Advanced Sub Queries over Composite Views as the functionality is more flexible and robust. |
Note: When creating an OLAP cube as a view you will have limited options for updating field information. This is because most of the metadata is already contained in the cube itself.