What is a Project Perspective?
When working on large projects in Jet Analytics, it can get difficult to manage and find specific objects. Project Perspectives in Jet Analytics help by allowing you to create focused views of your project, showing only the objects related to a specific task or area like Finance or Sales.
For example, a Finance Perspective might include only finance-related tables, cubes, and dimensions. This makes your project easier to manage and cleaner to work with.
Types of Perspectives
You can create two types of perspectives:
Static Perspective – You manually select each object you want to include.
Dynamic Perspective – You select one main object (like a cube), and all related objects are automatically included based on table relationships.
Dynamic perspectives save time and ensure all necessary dependencies are added.
How Relationships Work in Dynamic Perspectives
Jet Analytics uses table relationships to decide what to include in a dynamic perspective. It includes:
Tables with relationships marked as “error” or “error with physical relation”
These indicate strong relationships and are required for proper functionality.
It does not include tables with “warning” or “relation only” types, as these are weak links.
How to Add a New Perspective
Right-click the project name
If no perspectives exist yet: go toAdvanced → Project Perspectives
If perspectives already exist: right-clickProject Perspectives → Add/Edit Project PerspectivesClick “Add Perspective”
Name your perspective
Choose whether it’s Dynamic or Static
Expand OLAP servers, data warehouses, or business units
Select the objects (tables, cubes, dimensions) to include
In Dynamic mode, related objects are auto-included (marked with a shaded checkbox).
How to Activate a Perspective
Only one perspective can be active at a time. You can activate it in three ways:
Right-click the perspective in the Project Tree and select Use Project Perspective
From the Tools ribbon, use the Project Perspectives dropdown
From the Quick Access Toolbar, select the desired perspective
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How to Deactivate All Perspectives
To see the full project again:
Select “None” from the Project Perspectives dropdown in the ribbon or Quick Access Toolbar
Or, right-click the active perspective in the Project Tree and deselect Use Project Perspective
Note on Deployment Errors
Sometimes, when deploying a perspective, the last OLAP dimension may fail with the message:
“No dimension relationships exist within the measure group.”
This is due to the way Jet Analytics temporarily removes and reapplies dimensions during deployment.
Project Perspectives in Jet, make large Jet Analytics projects easier to manage by letting you focus on just the parts you need. Whether you’re working on finance, sales, or any other module, perspectives help keep your project clean, clear, and efficient.
