SampleSales.RPD Customer Dimension Questions

Hello, I am trying to figure out how SampleSale.rpd was built. I am stepping through data element from the physical layer all the way to the presentation layer and am confused about the following:
Question for "Sample Sales" section
- When i expand "H1 Customer Dimension", i see "Total" level and a number of revenue / qty members listed under it. I trace them back to physical layer fact columns and i also see them present in the presentation layer fact section. However, how can i get this attribute (which looks like a fact attribute) to show up under "h1 customer --> Total" level? I see the formula to for each but i am confused how to get this into inside the dimension.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Regards,

You leave them in place in the Logical Fact.
What you see at the dimension levels are just UI "pointers" to the Logical Fact columns, you can set level based measures manually in the content tab of that measure if you dont fancy dragging (or scrolling) up to the dimension levels themselves.
P.s Suggest you use a splitter in the fact table, just like Sample Sales to make it easy on the eye. Typical splits might be :
-----Measures------
a
b
c
---- Time Based----
a MAGO,
a YAGO,
b MAGO,
b YAGO
---- Level Based----
a (Year)
a (Channel)
etc etc.
--- Derived----
Profit %
Profit £
You can then choose to expose the splitte in the presentation catalog, or use nested Fact tables with appropriate names (see "nesting presentation tables")
Hope this helps !

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