target entity for business purposes it represents an accumulator of either unit counts or quantities of a specific value such as times late or total purchases for character profiling an attribute can accumulate values regarding attitude punctuality reliability and other subjective factors that can be later portrayed in the profile in organizing the repertoire of relationship profiles the user would start by defining and categorizing the image or image range it expects to present and then associating the attributes and their values that align to that image and then to the events in the host operations that relate to those attributes the attribute master table 419 allows the user to specify ageing acceleration consolidation and retention rules that govern the impact that each attribute asserts on the resulting images in the multidimensional scene like its event master counterpart the attribute master may be active or retired but may not be deleted once used its four tier code structure section group class type relates directly to the value range of images within that code the u2018 group u2019 and u2018 section u2019 parent codes can define background and midground images for any spectrum of entity characteristics the transactions table 418 contains.