How to maintain the dimension member that had large amount (over 10K)

Question

Hi, all,
I am now doing a Project Planning using BPC and had some questions as follows:
1. the total amount of the project memeber is huge (exceeding 10K in total). it will be crazy for the Administrator to maintain it only by himself. Is it possible that we can find a workaround method to let the end user to do the restricted work of administrator. in another word, can we find a way that prevent the end user to enter the Administration interface but can add the member themselves through the front end. the process work can be done in shcedule or by manually by the administrator?  Anybody had the experience on this? Or do you have any alternative and workaround way to solve the problem?
2. the project memeber adding is not finished within one time. that means, in the first time, maybe only add the highest level. and later, adding the members under it. how can we manage it? Dynamic Hierachy or the others?
Thanks

Answer 1

You could also have the end user update a regular excel spreadsheet with the same column format as a membersheet.  Easiest would be to save off the membersheet in another location accessible to the end user.  Then it can be modified using excel.  Or have the end user maintain a delimited flat file containing all the information included in a membersheet.
Using the bpc makedim package as a starting point, you can create a custom version that takes the user updated document as input and updates the bpc sql mbr table for that dimension then process the dimension. As long as the member list does not exceed the excel limitations, I would also suggest updating the membersheet in bpc.  In previous implementations this has meant taking a copy of the membersheet, deleting it, coping a template with the correct columns, then adding the members into it.  Updating excel spreadsheets from SSIS can be challenging if you have to deal with deleted members.
Also if you have the potential of deleted members that might have associated facts, I have another post concerning that issue, but have not had time to try any of  the suggestions.
Now, the end user is responsible for updating the member list without having access to BPC Admin tool, but someone with access to run datamanager packages would have to execute the datamanager package to process the dimension.