Understanding the User
Interface
The statistical tool presents an easy-to-use
interface for operating an OLAP-slice. The basic
data is displayed in the Working area. The
environment tools for managing the content and
characteristics of the slice are placed on the pivot
panels. You can set the panels' layout the way you
like. To drag a panel to a different location, you
need to capture and drag its header with the mouse.
At that, all the possible locations, where it can be
dropped to, will be highlighted. You can detach a
panel from the component, it will, then, be
displayed as a float window.
 Instrumental panels
can be:
- attached to any side of the component;
- placed into any existing panel;
- displayed as bookmarks on any panel;
- set as auto-hidden panels;
- used as float windows.
You can change the view of the slice by
relocating measures and hierarchies within the
environment panel. When you start dragging an
element, all the possible locations, where it can be
dropped to, will be highlighted. Most elements have
context menus that duplicate the mouse actions and
provide additional control functions for managing
the slices' view.
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OLAP Grid panel
The OLAP Grid control is comprised of a
multi-dimensional table with expandable nodes. These
nodes group and display data according to the
hierarchies used to define the measures and
dimensions upon which the underlying data has been
organized. Unique features of control allows for
building the OLAP-reports of the exceptional level
of complexity. In tandem with the OLAP Chart, the
OLAP Grid provides an ideal means of clearly
conveying data to the user.
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OLAP Chart panel
While RadarCube Grid allows working with numbers,
the OLAP Chart allows representing the helpdesk data
graphically. This gives technicians and managers a
unique opportunity to analyze their business data
visually, dealing with charts rather than numbers,
which is much easier to perceive.

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Cube structure panel
The panel contains the Cube structure - measures and
hierarchies as a tree. The measures are grouped in
the set, displayed in the branch. All the rest of
the tree nodes are the dimensions that contain
hierarchies. To select a measure for display you
need to drag-n-drop it to the Measures panel or the
data area. To select a hierarchy for display –
drag-n-drop it to the hierarchy area or the pivot
panel (rows or columns area).
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Pivoting panels
A pivot table lets user design the report online by
dragging and dropping measures, dimensions and
levels into the pivoting panels. Note that the column panel may
contain no more than one (!) measure. Panel elements
can be dragged with the mouse to other panels. To
filter elements, press the Filter button (see Pivot
panel view) or use the appropriate items from the
context menu.

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Measure panel
Measure panel consists of groups of measures that
make up the charts' vertical axes (see Measure panel
components). Each group of measures corresponds to a
set of charts in the data area. Groups of measures
are situated in the main part of the panel.

You can drag measures from one group to
another, or extract measures from groups
to delete them. To create a new group,
you need to drag a measure to a place on
the panel not occupied by another group
or to the
<drop an item to create a new group>
panel.
Clicking a mouse button on measures will
call the context menu. From here, you
can move a measure to one of the pivot
panels or to the modifiers axis, or
assign a measure filter. Also, you can
assign the marker type of a chart point
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Filters, Groups, and Sorting
The statistical tool allows for easy selection on
what data you want to see and what you don’t. You
can apply powerful filters to anything including
hierarchy members, and measure values, thus leaving
out the unimportant data. You can sort the data to
see, for example, the top 10 values and then you can
gather the rest values into a single group, so you
only have what you really need.
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The panel is applicable
for quick filtering of elements. You can
filter just one hierarchy or one measure
at once. To assign a quick filter, use
the context menu. Quick filtering of a
hierarchy is a simplified version of the
Hierarchy filtering editor. You can show
or hide hierarchy members, while
selecting them from the Hierarchy tree.
All the changes will be displayed in the
Grid upon checking the "Preview" button.
If a non-empty filter is assigned, it
will be shown in the Filter panel. To
delete a filter, select the "All
Members" node and choose the "Delete
filter" command on the Filter panel.
Quick filtering of measures is a fine
way to hide some of the values in the
Chart. It doesn't mean you create a
measure filter in the Filter area.
Repositioning of the trackbar sliders
will be reflected with a slight delay
(~0.4 second), you can set its threshold
values in the input boxes. To clear a
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Filter panel
The filtered elements (hierarchies and measures) are
automatically transferred to the Filter panel. To
assign a filter, you have to move an element to the
Filter panel. If the element hasn't been filtered
the appropriate editor will be called (Hierarchy
Filter Editor for hierarchies and Measure Filter
Editor for measures). In the Filter panel, you can
call the Filtered Element Editor individually for
each element.
On the hierarchy levels' captions area panels you
can find the Hierarchy Editor buttons . If the
button looks like this , it means that there are
hidden members in the hierarchy. Pressing the button
calls the Hierarchy Editor.

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Working Area
The OLAP-slice data is displayed in working area. In
its upper part there is a menu for the quick access
to the frequently used commands˛. The rest is
occupied by the current OLAP-slice and consists of
the following parts - Cube Axis headers, Cube
Axes, Data Axes, Data Axis headers, Chart Panes

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Reports
The reports panel is located on the extreme left (treeview)
and houses both pre-defined and user customized
reports. Pre-defined reports are available under
Assets, Cases, Callers, Date/Time, Problems,
Technicians nodes, where as the user saved reports
are listed under 'User-Defined Reports' node.
Clicking one of child node report loads the
statistical analysis of that report, the resultant
of which will be displayed in the Grid or Chart
(depending on the current active view).
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