Expanding and collapsing hierarchies

You can expand and collapse hierarchies in the down and across dimensions of a template, or DataView, by clicking the plus and minus signs beside parent symbols.

However, you can also choose a menu command to expand a selected parent symbol to show every level of symbol detail within it. For example:

You can also choose a menu command to display one level of detail within each occurrence of a selected parent symbol.

For example, if you have two outer dimension symbols, each inner dimension symbol occurs twice. You can expand each occurrence of the same parent symbol in the down or across dimensions to show one level of detail below the selected parent. For example:

This section contains information on these main topics:

• "Expanding hierarchies"
• "Collapsing hierarchies"

Expanding hierarchies

To expand hierarchies in a template, or DataView, follow these steps.

1. Right-click a parent symbol. A pop-up menu appears.
2. Do one of the following:
   • Click the Expand All For Selected Symbol icon. The hierarchy expands to show all symbols within the selected parent symbol, but only for the selected occurrence of that parent symbol. Other occurrences of that parent symbol are not expanded.
   • Click the Expand One Level for All Occurrences icon. The hierarchy expands to only the first level of symbols under the selected parent symbol, for all the occurrences of that parent symbol.
   • In a template that includes an inner dimension, expand the inner dimension to display the symbols you want, and then right-click its corresponding symbol in the outer dimension and select Expand One - Match Inner Detail. This expands the outer dimension symbol one level down, and for each outer dimension child symbol, the inner dimension expands to match the inner dimension expansion of the parent symbol.
   • In a template that includes an inner dimension, expand the inner dimension to display the symbols you want, and then right-click in the outer dimension and select Expand All - Match Inner Detail. This expands all symbols visible in the outer dimension all levels down, and for each outer dimension child symbol, the inner dimension expands to match the inner dimension expansion of the parent symbol.
   • Click Expand All For All to expand all the symbols in all the dimensions in a given direction.

     Caution: Depending on the number of symbols in your template, the Expand All For All function has the potential to retrieve huge amounts of data, which may adversely affect the performance of your system. Use this function with caution.

Collapsing hierarchies

To collapse hierarchies in a template, or DataView, follow these steps.

1. Right-click a symbol. A pop-up menu appears.
2. Do one of the following:
   • To collapse all hierarchies in a dimension, right-click any symbol in that dimension, and click the Collapse All icon. All hierarchies in that dimension are collapsed.
   • To collapse the parent of a symbol, right-click the symbol whose parent you want to collapse and click the Collapse Parent icon. The parent is collapsed.