Can we please get a more user friendly version of cubes? Setting up a simple graph is more complicated than it should be. I feel like we could greatly benefit from having the UI/UX team having a look at cubes and think of a more refined way of creating cubes and graphs.
Maybe adding a wizard to guide you through the creation process would be very helpful.
A more user-friendly version of cubes
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Hi Erwin,
We do offer the Create cube task to quickly turn a table/view into a functioning Cube/Chart, does that task suffice? What parts are the most challenging?
In the (hopefully) near future we intend to have a WYSIWYG GUI editor so you can set-up the cube from the end poruct and write the configuration back to the Software Factory. Would that solve this idea?
Things I think could be improved:
The automatic mapping of the time designations is faulty. Sometimes weeks get mapped to months or days to weeks.
The cube replaces the table instead of creating a seperate entity.
The naming of the cube sections (rows etc) do not match names in the gui.
Somehow you can only get a horizontal grouping if you add a vertical axis.
The relationship between the cube view and the cube itself is very confusing.
There is no preview in the sf so a lot of switching between sf/gui is involved.
There seems to be a lot of bugs in cube. Setting a column to show in data, and somehow it will end up in filters for example.
Creating a simple chart that would take me 1 minute in excel can quickly take up to an hour to create in a cube.
Creating the cube/graph from the front end would help but it would still need you to set up the totals, the views, the labels etc. So I think it would not be the end all but more a start to a cube 2.0. So for now I would vote to leave this idea intact to see if there are more developers struggling with the cube/graphs.