Joins Between Metrics

Setting the metric join type allows you to define the default action for joining the metric to other metrics. This setting is used for the metric on any report the metric is placed on. However, you can override this metric join setting for a particular report. For information on setting metric join types at a report-specific level, see the Analyzing Data chapter of the Basic Reporting Help.

The Metric Join Type option is accessed from the Tools menu of the Metric Editor. The metric join types are as follows:

The Metric Join Type option is a shortcut to the Metric Join Type VLDB property located under Advanced Options in the same menu.

• Default uses the default value.
• Inner includes only information contained by all the elements.
• Outer keeps all the information in all the elements.