Custom fields in SSAS 2005 KPI's

Hi there,

What is the best way to get a custom field in a SSAS 2005 Cube KPI?
For example, what if the user wanted two target fields, or a budget field, or a contact person field for a KPI? (mostly static data, hard coded by the user).

Thanks.

You can use the Annotations property of KPIs (and other AS 2005 objects) to store custom information. The annotations is a property bag of name-value pairs and can contain most anything you like (including complex XML). If you set Visibility=SchemaRowset on an annotation, then the annotation will be available in the schema rowset and can be used by client applications. The down side to this approach is that off-the-shelf clients will generally ignore annotations and you'll probably need a custom client application to look for and use the annotations.