Maximum number of Dimensions you can pass into an Extension?

[justin_morley]

Hi,

What's the maximum number of dimensions I can pass into an extension object?

I feel I must have exceeded the maximum - I have created 38 Dimensions and 2 Expressions in my Definition.xml, but running the following javascript:

 alert (_this.Data.Rows [0].length );

gives me a message box saying "20"

Have I reached the hard maximum number of dimensions?

Why do I want to pass so many dimensions? Because I'm preparing a table of data for export into statistical and modelling tools.

As with the last question I asked on this forum, it would be more useful to be able to reach the base data without using dimensions/expressions at all. Is the data exposed to the extension object in any hidden way. The documentation I've been able to find is light on this information.

Thanks,

Justin

[rbecher · Accepted solution]

Hi Justin,

I think 20 is the max. standard page width (amount of columns) for an extension. But you can set this in Definition.xml (PageHight for max. amount of rows):

<ExtensionObject ...

PageHeight="2000"

PageWidth="42"

>

- Ralf

[justin_morley]

Thanks Ralf,

That works an absolute treat.

Much appreciated

Justin