Measure -- System Center Cube

You can use custom measures to aggregate and display data based on numeric attributes from dimensions. Service Manager does not support custom measures based on facts. Continuing with the example of he Named Calculation above, Service Manager defines a custom measure on IncidentsPastTargetResolutionTime as the following:

<Measure ID="IncidentsPastTargetResolutionTimeCount" Target="IncidentDW!IncidentDim" Type="Sum" Property="IncidentsPastTargetResolutionTime"/>

Reviewing this XML code, the target of the measure is the IncidentDimension and the specific property is IncidentsPastTargetResolutionTime. This is the custom property that was defined previously. Custom measures can target either native or calculated properties in the dimension.

Finally, the measure type is defined to be a sum. Possible values for a measure type include Sum and Count. Because of performance considerations, Service Manager Distinct Count measure types are not allowed. The following table describes measure attributes.

Attribute	Required	Values	Definition
ID	Yes	String	Name of the measure
Target	Yes	Management Pack Dimension	The target dimension for the measure
Property	Yes	String	The targeted dimension property
Type	No	(Count, Sum)	The type of the measure