A geek’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a blog post for?

With extensive apologies to Rabbie Burns aka the Bard of Ayrshire aka the Ploughman Poet (I hope that every lit prof I had in school is now beyond happy that I can remember a line from Andrea del Sarto – see, I did pay attention, sometimes) I had high hopes that I could cover the entire OneStream dimension build process from thinking about it to building and editing it manually to loading and editing it from external sources. Whew. And that’s not even counting applying said dimension to a cube. Double whew.

It’s simply too much to cover in a single blog post so I’ll disappoint you bitterly relieve you and me considerably by reducing scope as splitting this into multiple posts is the only way to reasonably approach the subject.

Along the way I’ll try to explain as much of the architecture and philosophy behind OSXF’s (I’m too lazy to write out OneStream XF more than once per post) metadata management but there will be much that I shan’t and can’t cover yet. There’s a lot going on and a lot of functionality that isn’t …