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Dimension hierarchy concepts
A dimension hierarchy is a data construct that groups data into bins based on value ranges. Dimension hierarchies are the basis for a variety of reports.
Working with dimension hierarchies
A dimension hierarchy is a data construct that groups data into bins based on value ranges. Dimension hierarchies are the basis for a variety of reports. Administrators can create and edit dimension hierarchies.
To update a dimension hierarchy
If the underlying data changes, you must manually update dimension hierarchies.

Administrator Guides
- Administrator Guide
  - Unica Campaign administration overview
    The Settings menu provides access to most of the tasks that Unica Campaign administrators typically perform.
  - Security in Unica Campaign
    Security policies control user access to the objects and features in Unica Campaign.
  - Database table administration
    Unica Campaign administrators must perform initial one-time tasks and routine administration tasks that pertain to database tables.
  - Customizing campaigns
    Administrators can customize campaigns by using custom campaign attributes, initiatives, and products.
  - Offer template concepts
    Before administrators perform offer template management tasks, there are several important concepts to understand.
  - About audience level administration
    Unica Campaign is delivered with a single audience level called Customer. You can define any additional audience levels that you need. Audience levels let flowchart designers target specific groups, such as Households, in marketing campaigns.
  - Before you begin working with contact history
    Contact history is stored in the Unica Campaign system database in separate tables by audience level. Therefore, you need to set up audience levels before you begin working with contact history.
  - Response history administration
    Before you begin working with response history, you should read the audience level administration topics and set up required audience levels.
  - Monitoring and controlling flowchart runs
    Choose Campaign > Monitoring and use the All monitored runs page to view the status of all active flowcharts and suspend, resume, or stop flowchart runs.
  - Dimension hierarchy concepts
    A dimension hierarchy is a data construct that groups data into bins based on value ranges. Dimension hierarchies are the basis for a variety of reports.
    - What is a dimension hierarchy?
      A dimension hierarchy is a data construct used to group data into bins based on value ranges. A dimension hierarchy can contain multiple levels, each of which has its own set of bins. The bins in each lower level must roll up neatly into bins in higher levels.
    - Why use dimension hierarchies?
      As the building blocks of cubes, dimension hierarchies are the basis for a variety of reports that can be used for data exploration, quick counts, or as a basis for targeting campaigns.
    - About dimension hierarchies and cubes
      You use dimension hierarchies to create dynamic data cubes, precalculated two- or three-dimensional aggregations of customer data built on a strategic segment.
    - About dimension hierarchies and database tables
      When you create a dimension hierarchy in Unica Campaign, you map it to a table in a database or a flat file.
    - Designing dimension hierarchies
      You should consider the following things when designing dimension hierarchies.
    - Working with dimension hierarchies
      A dimension hierarchy is a data construct that groups data into bins based on value ranges. Dimension hierarchies are the basis for a variety of reports. Administrators can create and edit dimension hierarchies.
      - To create a dimension hierarchy
        After you define a dimension hierarchy in an external table or flat file, you can create dimension hierarchies in Unica Campaign.
      - To load a stored dimension hierarchy
        Dimension hierarchies are stored in table catalogs with any other mapped tables in the flowchart.
      - To edit a dimension hierarchy
        You can change a dimension hierarchy name, description, levels, and table mapping.
      - To update a dimension hierarchy
        If the underlying data changes, you must manually update dimension hierarchies.
      - To remove a dimension hierarchy
        Removing a dimension hierarchy makes it no longer available to strategic segments. Any cubes based on the dimension hierarchy will become unconfigured if they use a deleted dimension hierarchy.
  - Triggers administration
    Unica Campaign allows you to define inbound and outbound triggers that can be used in all flowcharts in a partition.
  - Unica Campaign log files
    Unica Campaign records information in several different log files.
  - JVM Parameters
  - About codes in Unica Campaign
    Each campaign, cell, offer, and treatment in Unica Campaign has an identifying code that is generated by code generators, and conforms to a specified format.
  - Accessing the Advanced settings
    When a flowchart is open for editing, administrators can choose the Advanced settings option on the Admin menu to make administrative changes that affect only the current flowchart.
  - Unica Campaign integration with other products
    Unica Campaign optionally integrates with a number of other products.
  - Unica Campaign listeners
    The listener is a key component of Unica Campaign. It provides an interface between front-end clients and back-end analytical server processes.
  - Unica Campaign utilities
    Administrators use the Unica Campaign utilities to manage listeners, sessions, and flowcharts, and perform other important administrative tasks.
  - Configuring the ACOOptAdmin tool
    Configure the ACOOptAdmin tool to run Unica Optimize sessions from the command line.
  - Non-ASCII data in Unica Campaign
    Unica Campaign supports the use of localized data and non-United States locales, including multiple user-preferred locales within the same installation of the application.
  - Configuration properties for Unica Campaign
    The configuration properties of Unica Campaign are located at SettingsConfiguration. For more details on the configuration properties, see the Campaign Administrator Guide.
  - About special characters
    Some special characters are not supported in any Unica Campaign object names. In addition, some objects have specific naming restrictions.
  - Introduction to character encodings
    This section provides information on character encodings and language-sensitive database considerations, and lists the encodings supported by Unica Campaign.
  - About Unica Campaign Error Codes
    Unica Campaign notifies users of error events when they occur with error messages that consist of a code number and error text.
  - Troubleshooting
- System Tables

Updating dimension hierarchies

If the underlying data changes, you must manually update dimension hierarchies.

About this task

Unica Campaign does not support automatic updates of dimension hierarchies. If the underlying data changes, you must manually update your dimensions.

Note: Cubes are comprised of dimension hierarchies which are based on strategic segments, so you must update cubes whenever you update strategic segments.

Procedure

Use one of these methods to open the Dimension Hierarchies window:
- When editing a flowchart, open the Admin menu and select Dimension hierarchies.
- From the Campaign Settings page, click Manage dimension hierarchies.
You may need to load the dimension hierarchy that you want to edit.
Select the table catalog containing the dimension hierarchies that you want to update.
Click Update.

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