User lists are one of the filtering tools available to you in this application. Lists are a convenient way to pre-define a group of members that can then be used for filtering purposes over and over again in different views. For example, a Product Manager could set up her own personal user list of members from the Product Groups that she is responsible for managing. She can filter views by that list when she wants to see data specific to her management focus. Administrators can create global user lists that can be used by all users in many different views. User lists save you the step of setting up a member list each time you want to see a specific group of members in various views.
Lists also provide administrators the ability to secure a dimension by using a security user list as a means of controlling access to the dimension members. The same security user list can be applied to multiple roles. To use a list in this manner, an administrator needs to enable a Security User List property when they are creating the list. See also When to Create Security User Lists.
Another layer of convenience offered by user lists is the option to create dynamic or static user lists.
Dynamic - The members in a dynamic user list meet one or more business conditions and are continually updated based on the most current set of master file data. An expression defined for the list is evaluated against the master data, and only members that meet the expression criteria will populate the list. For example, you could create a dynamic user list on the Product level that returns Product members with values in the range of 954023 through 954622. See also Example Dynamic User List Expressions.
Static - When your filtering needs are more fixed, you can set up static user lists and choose specific members for the list. For example, you could create a static user list on the ABC Classification level and choose the A and B members for it. The members in a static user list only change when you manually edit the list.
An administrator creates a global user list containing 5 members of the Product Brand level. The list is then applied as a filter in a view that has the RepBroker and Product Brand levels in the grid.
Here is the view, showing just the members specified by the user list filter.
