Model Structure

In the previous chapters, we introduced report elements. There are six kinds of them (Concept, Abstract, Line Items, Hypercube, Dimension and Member).

In a component, the report elements are glued together in a meaningful way. This allows:

• the retrieval of the facts associated with the components, as a fact table.
• the correct, and possibly even fancy display of these facts, as a spreadsheet.

Fact tables and Spreadsheets are described in further chapters.

The model structure of a component is nothing else than a hierarchy organizing its report elements.

API Reference

We provide a complete reference to the REST API for model structures.

Spreadsheet analogy

In a spreadsheet, the model structure corresponds to how a table looks like: where the header cells are located, how the rows are organized and the headers indented.