New Object dialog box: MDX Sources tab

When you create a new report or a new Intelligent Cube, the New Grid or New Intelligent Cube dialog box opens. The MDX Sources tab allows you to use an MDX cube source to create your report or Intelligent Cube.

MDX cube reports provide most of the same data display and analysis functionality as standard reports. Rather than reporting on data from a relational data warehouse, however, MDX cube reports report on data from MDX cube sources.

The MDX Sources tab lists any database instances that are connected to an MDX cube source. Select a database instance and click OK to begin creating the MDX cube report or Intelligent Cube. For detailed steps, see Creating an MDX cube report or Creating Intelligent Cubes based on MDX cubes; for background information on MDX cubes in general, see Reporting on MDX cubes.

You can create a connection to an MDX cube source by clicking New MDX Source. The Database Instances dialog box opens. For instructions to create a new database instance that connects to an MDX cube source, see Connecting to MDX Cube Sources in the MDX Cube Reporting Help.

The New Object dialog box is not displayed if any of the following are true:

• No object templates have been created for reports, and the empty object template for reports has been disabled.

• You have chosen not to display the dialog box for reports.

• You have disabled object templates for reports.

For instructions to enable object templates, see Enabling object templates. This fixes the last two items in the list above. For instructions to create object templates, see Creating an object template. For instructions to show or disable the empty object template, see Object templates at the project level.