Difference between standard dimension and attribute dimension

Sno	Characteristics	Standard Dimension	Attribute Dimension
1	Definition	Standard dimension is tells about the core components of business plan	Attribute dimension is used to group and analyze standard dimension members based on their characteristics
2	Storage	Can be dense or sparse	Sparse only, attribute dimension must be associate with sparse standard dimension only
3	Formulas	Formulas can be associated with standard dimension members	Formulas cannot be associated with standard dimension members
4	Storage properties	Storage properties can be store data, dynamic calc & store, dynamic calc only, share, never share, label only	Storage property dynamic calc only
5	Consolidation properties	+,-,*,/,%,~,^	attribute calculations done through five default functions names sum, count, min, max, avg
6	Shared members	Allowed	Not allowed
7	UDA	Allowed	Not allowed
8	Two pass calculation member property	Allowed	Not allowed
9	Position	Position in the outline is a head of all attribute dimensions	Position in the outline is last
10	Member selection	A member can be text, Boolean, numeric and date	Text
11	Example	Account(Dense) Period(Dense) Product(Sparse) Market(Sparse)	Producttype Market region productcolor