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Extend the Period Entity

The Period target entity requires special mapping requirements in the IDE. The entity contains time and date related mapping and can only connect to date related sources and dimensions, for example START_TIME.

When you connect to a data source that has a Period entity, the data source consistently changes depending on configurations. Therefore you can only map to date-related entities and dimensions.