Level-based Hierarchy

Level-based hierarchy is the first type of hierarchy in OBIEE.

Consists of an ordered set of two or more levels. For example, a Time hierarchy might have three levels for Year, Quarter, and Month. Level-based hierarchies can also contain parent-child relationships.

Dimension hierarchy levels allow :

* to perform aggregate navigation,

* to configure level-based measure calculations,

* users from Dashboard and Answers to drill down from one parent to a child level.

Special type of level-based dimension are supported:

* Unbalanced (or ragged) and Skip-level hierarchy

* time dimension to provides special functionality for modeling time series data.