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Sergey
Contributor III
9 months ago

Why is there no "View" dimension in Data Buffer ?

Dear community, I am working on some Data Buffer and I noticed something : As you can see (if it's not too small ...), the Data Buffer is not taking into consideration the data units (that...
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JackLacava
Honored Contributor
9 months ago

The View member is effectively a virtual dimension, since all numbers in the database are YTD - they just get dynamically converted to other formats on request. Hence we don't keep any reference to it in DataBuffer objects, since they are largely meant to be low-level raw objects.

If you work with non-YTD formats, you will have to keep track of that yourself.