As part of the user documentation a glossary is produced defining all the business terms and column names used in the data warehouse. This glossary is primarily based on the columns in the dimension and fact tables. Additional information can, however, be added via the 'Ws_Api_Glossary' procedure defined in the procedures chapter. This procedure allows the manual inclusion of glossary elements that will be stored in the metadata repository and added to the glossary whenever the documentation is recreated.

QAD Data Warehouse Designer includes the ability to document the data warehouse based on the information stored against the metadata for all the tables and columns in the data warehouse. In a larger environment, it may be a good idea to generate documentation in batch mode.

The following syntax chart illustrates the options available: