Rapid application development tutorial 2 Contents

Financial transactions
you need to know the amount of 
transactions. Hence, only one resource of 
Number
type named 
Amount
is 
required. 
Dimensions
refer to slices of information that is required to be obtained 
from the register. It is unlikely that you will be interested only in the overall 
balance. For example, to create a finance flowchart you may be interested 
in which events or people bring you most of the money, or which consume 
the most. To track this, you will need to have two dimensions 
Event
and 
Person
.
Attributes
keep additional information that accompanies each record in the 
register. For 
Financial transactions
you will not use attributes. However, 
nothing prevents you from adding them to the register in future and 
then keeping any auxiliary information there. 
Add mentioned above dimension and resources. To add them, right-click 
the 
Dimensions
and the 
Resources
groups of the accumulation register, 
and in the context menu click 
Add
(Ins). 
Now, add a dimension. 

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Figure 5-5. Adding a dimension 
In 
the 
Properties
window, 
define that the 
Name
of 
the new 
dimension is 
Event
, and its 
Type
is 
CatalogRef.Events
. 
Figure 5-6. The Event dimension properties 
Add a second dimension, named 
Person
. Type is 
CatalogRef.People
. 
Figure 5-7. The Person dimension properties 
Now add the 
Amount
resource. Accept default values of