Locked Dimensions and Cubes

Locked Dimensions and Cubes

Technically speaking this is not a bug but a feature of Jedox software. Jedox has the possibility to lock a specific area of the cube in order to disable additional data entering. The majority of the time users click on this functionality by accident and then owners of the application break the head what went wrong. When the cube is locked, elements cannot be added or deleted. Etls cannot run import as well. The error usually displays the following message "M_EL1 - dimension is locked: dimension is used in a locked cube" One reason for the error could be the Hold functionality is triggered by the user as follows: A similar thing is with Enable Undo functionality as well. Both of this information could be found in modeler under Cube properties. Once both of the actions are released, an error will not appear anymore. After that users could continue adding the data or working on the architecture of the database. In case you try...
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