Terry Smith
Yes, "ultimately somebody needs to know what these numbers mean." That is why I'm trying to format the user interface correctly! Contrary to your reply, when looking at values on a chart knowing whether they are amounts or percentages is NOT "only a small portion of such semantic". It's a requirement to build a chart accurately, and any competent programmer would cringe at the thought of parsing a format string to arrive as such metadata. The whole point of OLAP is to interpret data. Having available such basic metadata about that data is not too much to ask. If it's the user's sole responsibility to understand the semantics of data, then why not just give them a text-file dump of the SQL tables
Furthermore, you need to start listening to your users. This applies to every user question and complaint on this forum which you just dismiss in your response out of arrogance. There are a lot of holes in your application and virtually no documentation. You should stop telling everyone they don't know what they're doing, don't need a particular feature, or are obviously doing something wrong.
Thanks for you help and have a happy President's Day,
Terry