April 11, 2007 at 1:28 am
I've started playing with the ADAPT documentation tool for OLAP cubes (http://www.symcorp.com/tech_expertise_design.html). A couple of questions:
1. I've dropped the help file into \Prog files\Office\Visio11\1033 folder, but I can't find it anywhere in Visio help. I've restarted Visio.
2. How can I change the dimensions associated with a "cube"? That part seems to be locked.
April 11, 2007 at 11:05 am
Not sure on #2 (i need to go back and look at the vst again) but I think #1 is covered in the readme -> ensure the help is in the correct dir then click (maybe right click) on the Symmetry logo to get the help up.
Steve.
April 11, 2007 at 7:04 pm
I was able to extract the CHM file using Microsoft's HTML Help Workshop. I can see the help files and worked out number (2). Thanks Steve.
October 4, 2007 at 3:30 am
Please, could you give me a hint, what you did exactly with the help workshop ?
The readme wants me to save the .chm in the visio/helpfiles - folder, this seems to be visio11/1031 too, when using Visio 2003.
But when opening Visio, I can not open the chm at all. It shows only File not found - Content...
Do I need to discompile the chm and recompile it with other metadata ?
Thanks in advance,
Stefan
October 4, 2007 at 4:08 am
OK, I found now a semi-solution: with the HTML Help Workshop from MS I decompiled the chm and defined
a new (the visio11/1031...) Folder, and complied it again. Now I found there a running chm-file.
BUT: If I click on the ?-Button on the ADAPT-Logo-Shape in the Stencil, no help occurs...
But using the chm 'manually' is working now...
So far... 😉
Stefan
October 10, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Sorry Stefan, it's been a long time and I honestly can't remember what I did.
I've since stopped using ADAPT and started using BI Documenter http://www.bidocumenter.com/. It is retrospective (documents an existing cube) but the documentation is automated and far more comprehensive. That said, it doesn't really document the logical structure of the cube but more the physical structure. That said, after developing a few cubes I'm still trying to work out the difference between the two.
ADAPT doesn't fit in really well with AS 2005 either, I think, because it focusses on the idea of having a single measure group in each cube. Maybe that's just my (incorrect) interpretation.
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