analysis-services-scripting-language-assl-for-xmla.md

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Analysis Services Scripting Language (ASSL for XMLA)

Applications communicate with [!INCLUDEmsCoName] [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] [!INCLUDEssASnoversion] using XML commands and object descriptions. Analysis Services Scripting Language (ASSL) represents the object definition language portion of this XML dialect.

This reference section contains syntax and usage information for each element in the ASSL schema.

Administrators and developers can refer to this reference section for help in understanding the scripts generated by [!INCLUDEssManStudioFull], [!INCLUDEssBIDevStudioFull], Analysis Management Objects (AMO), and other applications, or for help in creating or modifying scripts for their own purposes.

In This Section

Topic	Description
Analysis Services Scripting Language XML Element Hierarchy (ASSL)	A detailed diagram of the hierarchy of elements in ASSL.
Analysis Services Scripting Language XML Data Type Hierarchy (ASSL)	A detailed diagram of the inheritance hierarchy of data types in ASSL.
Analysis Services Scripting Language XML Elements (ASSL)	Syntax reference for each element in the ASSL schema.
Analysis Services Scripting Language XML Data Types (ASSL)	Syntax reference for each data type in the ASSL schema.

See Also

Developing with Analysis Services Scripting Language (ASSL)
Developing with Analysis Management Objects (AMO)