Authorities
and privilegesUse the Subject Area notebook to define a subject area, which identifies and groups processes that relate to a logical area of the business.
For example, if you are warehousing sales and marketing data, you define a Sales subject area and a Marketing subject area. You then add the processes relating to the sales data to the Data Warehouse Center tree under the Sales subject area. Similarly, you add the definitions relating to the marketing data under the Marketing subject area.
You must define a subject area before you create a process. Any user can define or edit a subject area.
After you define a subject area, it is displayed under the Subject Areas folder in the Data Warehouse Center tree. You can edit the subject area to change its properties.
To edit a subject:
Make any modifications you want to make.
Click OK to update the subject area's properties.
To create a subject:
In the Name field, type a business name for this object.
The name must have the following attributes:
It must be unique within the Data Warehouse Center.
It can be up to 80 characters long and is case sensitive.
It must start with an alphanumeric character.
It cannot start with & in English.
Optional: In the Administrator field, type the name of a contact for this item, for example, your database administrator.
The name can be up to 80 characters long and is case sensitive. The first character of the name must be alphanumeric.
Optional: In the Description field, type a description of the object.
You can type up to 255 characters.
Optional: In the Notes field, type additional information about the object.
You can type up to 32,000 characters.
Click OK to define the subject area in the Data Warehouse Center tree.
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