On this page you will find the specifications regarding the Model: Production Performance and Dimension Table: REQUIRED DATE.
This model dimension represents a time dimension supporting required date and is based on the IFS Cloud dimension DIM_BI_TIME. All models that refers to this dimension will have the attributes and hierarchies as described below.
NOTE that current year and month are defined by the date when the transfer was done to the data warehouse.
| Attribute | Description (where applicable) |
| Required Date | The date converted to string according to the format 'YYYY-MM-DD' |
| Required Date String | Date as string, fixed format, not NLS dependent |
| Required Month | Represents the name of the month with respect to Required Date. |
| Required Month No | Represents the month of the year with respect to Required Date. |
| Required Month Short | Represents the short name of the month (MMM) of the year with respect to Required Date. |
| Required Quarter | Represents the quarter of the year with respect to Required Date. |
| Required Week No | Represents the ISO week number with respect to Required Date. |
| Required Weekday | Represents the name of the day with respect to Required Date. |
| Required Weekday No | Represents the number of a day in a the week with respect to Required Date. |
| Required Year | Represents the year with respect to Required Date. |
| Required Year Month | Represents a combination of YEAR and MONTH_OF_YEAR in the format "YYYYMM" |
| Year (Week based) | Year, NLS dependent |
| Current Month Flag | Represents a flag that is set to 1 if the date represents the current month. Else the value is 0. |
| Current Year Flag | Represents a flag that is set to 1 if the date represents the current year. Else the value is 0. |
| Previous Month Flag | Represents a flag that is set to 1 if the date represents the previous month, Else the value is 0. |
| Previous Year Flag | Represents a flag that is set to 1 if the date represents the previous year, Else the value is 0. |
| Last 12 Months Flag | Represents a flag that is set to 1 if the date represents one of the last completed 12 months. Else the value is 0. If transfer date is 15 Nov 2012, then last 12 months means the range Nov 2011 until Oct 2012. |
| Last 24 Months Flag | Represents a flag that is set to 1 if the date represents one of the last completed 24 months. Else the value is 0. If transfer date is 15 Nov 2012, then last 24 months means the range Nov 2010 until Oct 2012. |
| Required Day of Month |
| Hierarchy | Level |
| ReqDateMSHy | |
| Required Year | |
| Required Quarter | |
| Required Month | |
| ReqDateMFHy | |
| Required Year | |
| Required Quarter | |
| Required Month | |
| Required Date | |
| ReqDateWSHy | |
| Year (Week based) | |
| Required Week No | |
| ReqDateWFHy | |
| Year (Week based) | |
| Required Week No | |
| Required Date |
| Model Name |
| Production Performance |
The data source for this object is defined using IFS Developer Tool. Further Transformations are done using Power BI.
Additional information can be found in the online documentation of Information Sources.
| Model Table | BI Access View | Referenced Information Source | Recommended Access Type |
| REQUIRED DATE | DIM_BI_TIME_BI | DIM_BI_TIME | On Line |