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Enable Automatic Attribute Capturing on Subject Area Date Columns

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Request is to enable functionality in OAC to automatically derive date attributes (i.e. YEAR, MONTH, QUARTER) from DATE and TIMESTAMP type values in Subject Areas.

This functionality exists in Datasets and similar objects in OAC, but does NOT work natively against Subject Areas.

If possible, it would be beneficial to also ensure that this functionality also allows for organization-specific date mappings as well (i.e. Fiscal Year, Quarters, etc.)

Business Value:
Reduced development time for Subject Areas.
Consistent user experience building reports in OAC.
Additional functionality available in Subject Areas to simplify report development in OAC.

To replicate this, Subject Area developers have to manually create this logic inside the code for every single DATE type column, which leads to maintenance, additional time in development, and more complexity/less friendliness for users inside the OAC application.

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  • Rank 2 - Community Beginner

    We would want the functionality promoted in the March Release to be enabled for Subject Area date values: Use date columns as keys for Custom Knowledge - YouTube

  • Rank 6 - Analytics Lead

    Agree , it should be extended to SAs as well.

    But unfortunately, March update functionality is not usable for now because It is buggy,

    • If we add two date columns, in a table, it is not working correctly.
    • It is not working for "Use as Filters".

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