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A custom group is used to group attribute elements and aggregate results in a report. This report is made up of custom group elements that consist of a header and filter condition. Each custom group element can have its own banding or filtering condition. A custom group allows us to group elements with the same or different attributes and metrics.
In the following example, if a data warehouse contain different countries but you want to group those countries by region, you can use custom groups; the American region custom group element displays countries such as Canada, the USA, and so on as other custom group elements:
A custom group definition is made up of:
A name, which we define while creating a custom group element. Under this name, we group different attribute elements. This is displayed as a row in the report.
Qualification, which is a condition that should be met to display data on the report. There are different qualification types and we can combine them in the same...
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