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Perspective Class

Definition

Defines a logical view over the Model and is a child of a Model object. It allows hiding Tables, Columns, Measures, and Hierarchies so that end users can look at a smaller subset of the large data model.

public sealed class Perspective : Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Tabular.NamedMetadataObject
type Perspective = class
    inherit NamedMetadataObject
Public NotInheritable Class Perspective
Inherits NamedMetadataObject
Inheritance

Constructors

Perspective()

Create a new instance of the Perspective class with default settings.

Properties

Annotations

Gets the collection object of all annotations in the current Perspective.

Description

The description of the perspective, visible to developers at design time and to administrators in management tools, such as SQL Server Management Studio.

ExtendedProperties

Gets the collection object of all extendedproperties in the current Perspective.

IsRemoved

A Boolean specifying whether this object was removed from an object tree.

(Inherited from MetadataObject)
Model

Gets the Tabular model that contains this object.

(Inherited from MetadataObject)
ModifiedTime

The time that the object was last modified.

Name

Gets or Sets the Name of this object.

ObjectType

Gets the type of the object.

Parent

Parent object, null for Model objects.

PerspectiveTables

Gets the collection object of all perspectivetables in the current Perspective.

Methods

Clone()

Creates a new, full copy of a Perspective object.

CopyFrom(Perspective)
Obsolete.

Deprecated. Use CopyTo method instead.

CopyTo(Perspective)

Copies a Perspective object to the specified object.

Rename(String)
Obsolete.

Deprecated. Use RequestRename method instead.

RequestRename(String)

Request rename of this object.

Validate()

This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Microsoft Internal Use Only.

(Inherited from MetadataObject)

Applies to