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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Cognos Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 15, 2015

Need ability to search dimensions and levels, not just members.

We have many sources in our environment, but they are not all documented formally yet. And some of our dimension levels definitely contain more than 20 items.
As an author, I often have a need to determine if a particular source has a particular dimension, level or member, but am still learning item naming conventions – labels are not always intuitive.
In this case, our Product team was asking “Is there any ICD 10 information in the source?”.
I thought I could avoid having to spend time asking our developer (who is already swamped) and simply search the source for the term “ICD” to see if any dimensions or levels could be found.

It is true that upper levels typically do not have many items and are easily explored. However, in this case, it is more of how an author can search and “learn the source” by quickly/easily searching the source (and not down necessarily to the member level) without having to manually click on every dimension to expand it to see what it contains. An author might even find where common labeling is being used that could cause confusion when authoring, and work it back w/ the source developer to ensure proper naming conventions are being used.
It seems like it would be a nice feature to search for something quickly so the author can quickly ID (and learn) where it is.