Sorting Attribute dimension members

Other then reloading attribute dimension members in a different order. Is there a possbility with ODI or the SortMember.cmd utility to perform such a task?
I ask since I know presently while reloading the attribute dimension with ODI it drops the latest member to the bottom. This is not the order I need it in. I tried to mess with the load in ODI and still no fix. I tried to use the SortMember and it only appears to work on all dimension but currency, period, and years as it reads in the planning admin guide. This is for 11.1.2.1.
Does anybody have any input? If so please reply.
Thanks,
DjSmeadly

It is one area that has never been addressed so sorting attribute members is not so easy, as far as I aware the sortmember utility does not work on attribute dimensions.
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

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Hi All,
Can we see Attribute dimension members in Planning data form ? Pls. help

Yes it is possible in 11.1.1.3, for example in your row select a dimension that has attributes associated with it. select dimension properties next to the down drop.
Tick "Enable custom attribute display (setting applies to all dimensions with associated attributes): "
Select the attribute dimension
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

Attribute Dimension and association with multi level base members

I am trying to associate attribute dimension members with base members that can be at different levels (level 0 or level 1 or level 2 ).
First question - Is that possible ? Second how do I do that.
I am building the dimensions(base and attribute) members first and then trying to associate.
I get the following error message :
Base member (xxxxxxx) association level does not match base dimension association level
The base dimension looks like
Supplier
|-----Supplier Group
|---------Supplier ID (Associate this member to an attrbiute dimension)
|---------------Invoice Number
Sometimes the Supplier ID may not have a Supplier Group or an Invoice Number (hence it can be a level 0 or directly under the dimension name - Gen2)
The Attrbute Dimension looks like
Supplier Value
|---High
|---Medium
|---Low
Edited by: 816875 on 30-Nov-2010 07:01

First to clarify, base mambers by definition would all be level 0 members, but to your question, attributres can only be associated to a single level within a dimension. your problem is sometimes the supplier is level 0 and other times level 1. This can't be done.

Attribute dimension in the planning Web form

Hi All,
Is there any option to populate attribute dimension as a drop down in the Planning web form, I see option to show attribute dimension in the Other Properties page in the web form, But attribute dimension is not showing in the drop downs. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
KGP

I don't think there's anything specific one does to make the attribute dimension show up on the form.
When I look at the Member Selection Entity window on my form, in the upper left hand side I see a box labelled "Members in Entity".
Directly below that is another box labelled "Attributes".
Are you sure that you really have the attributes assigned?
You can check in Classic Planning, by managing dimensions, selecting Entity, and then clicking on the Custom Attributes button. You should then see the attribute dimensions/members assigned to Entity.
You can also check in EAS.
I believe the association also appears in EPMA but it's been a while since I looked at it.
Regards,
Cameron Lackpour

Drill through for Attribute dimensions

Hi,
How to enable drill thrus for Attribute dimension members. I have included the Attribute dimension in Drill thru intersections, but still I am not able to do drill thrus on Attribute dimension members. Is there any other settings I need to do in Metaoutline?
Thanks
Kannan.

Yep, this is a limitation. I suggest you create two reports one that takes your "optional" dimension out and a second one that has it in. if they don't need the dimension, select the first report and if they need the filter then the second. I m always a little leery with recursive hierarchies and Gen 2 or 3 sine they create a list of level 0 members under the selection in the query and there are limits to the number of members in an in clause and at high levels in the hierarchy it is easy to surpass it (In Oracle it is 1000 members)

'Allow Duplicate Members' not compatible with Attribute Dimensions

When setting the 'Allow Duplicate Members' option on there is a problem if the duplicate member is used as an Attribute. When attempting to apply the member filter to use the attribute Essbase throws an error: Cannot uniquely identify a member, the name [L] is duplicated.
In my case L is duplicated across two dimensions [L=LOCAL as a BOOK_CODE and L=LIABILITY as an ACCOUNT_TYPE].
The ACCOUNT_TYPE is an attribute dimension related to the ACCOUNTS dimension. Both the excel addin and Financial Reports have a problem as their member selection interfaces don't fully qualify the selection.
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Delete Attribute Dimension Using MAXL

Hi everyone,
Is there any option to delete attribute dimension using MAXL? Our requirement demands to delete and reload every night. Please suggest if anybody has did this before.
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A post of the same sort of topic area :- HOW can i delete the members in dim using MAXL
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http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

Deploying Essbase Text-Attribute Dimensions

Hello,
we have an Essbase-cube with a text-attribute dimension. All associations are fine, also the validation. The deployment fails with the error:
"Level zero members defined as dynamic calc must have a formula assigned to them"
As it is an attribute dimension, there is something wrong.
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Michael

Are you sure you don't have an Account or some other dimension's member that has been tagged as dynamic calc and yet does not have a formula?
That's the message you'll get when that happens.
The Planning refresh should (hopefully) show you which member is that way. Failing that you can go into Essbase and try doing outline validations -- I suspect the error will not have gone across but it may be worth a try. If the latter is the case, you are going to have to compare the two -- Planning and Essbase to find that dynamically calculated member without a formula.
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Cameron Lackpour
P.S. The message sort of makes sense, sort of -- attribute dimensions are dynamic, but I've never personally seen this error.

Error While Building Attribute Dimension in ASO Cube

Hi all,
Cuurently I'm trying to bulit an ASO application in Oracle EPM 11.1.1.3
When I'm building an attribute dimension "QSize" in ASO cube ,I'm Getting some Warnings
I'm using Flat file as my source AND MY RULE FILE IS
GEN2,QSIZE, ALIAS2,QSIZE
1, ">100"
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3, "250-499"
4, "500-1000"
5, "<1000"
I VALIDATED THE RULE FILES,
when i try to load the data into the essbase,Its giving me a warning stating that
Record #1 - Incorrect Syntax For Member <100 (3305)
*1 "<100"*
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I came know that Essbase doesn't allow ">" character at the beginning of Dimension Or Member Name
Please let me know if there is Any other way,where I can Assign the alias "<100"
Thx in Advance
Regards,
RSG
Edited by: SG on Jan 22, 2011 3:03 PM
Edited by: SG on Jan 22, 2011 3:04 PM
Edited by: SG on Jan 22, 2011 3:06 PM

Could you get away with an underscore? I think that works. You will have _<100 which is not ideal but might be worth a try.
Failing that, go with GT and LT. <--This is incredibly lame, but sometimes users go for the "computer is too stupid" answer. Which in this case, is sort of true.
Regards,
Cameron Lackpour

How to display single dimension members in Columns and rows

Item category on rows Item brand on columns, Different levels in the Item hierarchy , can it be presented as above in the pivot table ?
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|-- CAT-Beauty Products
| |-- SEG-Skin Care
| |-- BD-Andes
| -- CAT-Beverages
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Edited by: Swathi on Jun 7, 2011 11:42 PM

Sorry you can't do that. as a work around you could create attribute dimensions for the parent and the could cposstab them, or split the dim into two dimensions

How to design Flat file for loading attribute dimension in a planning application

Dear Gurus,
I have a requirement to extract attribute dimensions from an essbase application and load it to another planning application. I have a dimension called Program and two attribute dimensions Sales Manager, Accounts manager associated with Program dimension in Essbase application. I will Extract these dimensions using Essbase outline extractor. After Extracting the attribute dimensions I have to load these dimensions to planning applications using outline load utility. Kindly guide me how to design the flat file for loading attribute dimensions in planning application.
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How to hide the Attribute dimension from Planning webform

I am in Planning 9.3.1
We are using members in row section of webform w.r.t Attribut dimension
so when we are viewing the webform- it is displaying member name followed by Attribute dimension name .
any way to hide that Attribute dimension member from the webform.
KK

In the Dimension Properties for that dimension, select "Enable custom attribute display" but dont pull the attribute from Available Dimensions to Selected Dimensions. I've given the name of the property from 11.1.1.3 version, so not sure if its the same in 9.3.1 but it'll be somewhat similar.
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Hi everybody,
I run OBIEE reports on top of EssBase 9.3 ASO cube.
My cube has 8 regular dimensions and 10 attribute dimensions.
I am running a query based on:
- 3 dimensions (TIME, BATCH, MODEL),
- 2 attributes of BATCH ( SHIFT, SHIFT_STATUS )
- and one measure.
The query runs 3 minutes (!) and returns 190 rows.
If I remove the attributes, the query runs 4 seconds for the same number of result rows.
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With
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set [BATCHES] as '[DIM_BATCH_HEADERS].Generations(5).members'
set [SHIFT2] as '[SHIFT].Generations(2).members'
set [SHIFT_STATUS2] as '[SHIFT_STATUS].Generations(2).members'
set [MODEL2] as 'Filter([MODEL].Generations(2).members, ([MODEL].currentmember.MEMBER_ALIAS = "SNF_PCK" OR [MODEL].currentmember.MEMBER_Name = "SNF_PCK"))'
select
{[Accounts].[PROD_ACTUAL_QTY_KG]
} on columns,
NON EMPTY
{crossjoin ({[TIME7]},
crossjoin ({[BATCHES]},
crossjoin ({[SHIFT2]},
crossjoin ({[SHIFT_STATUS2]},{[MODEL2]}))))}
properties ANCESTOR_NAMES, GEN_NUMBER on rows
from [COP_MAAD.Cop_Maad]
Thank you in advance,
Alex
Edited by: AM_1 on Feb 26, 2009 6:35 AM
Edited by: AM_1 on Feb 26, 2009 7:03 AM

Hi Glenn,
I though that the reason might be the crossjoin with a very large set. The main dimension in this query has ~40000 members.
Is there in EssBase MDX some analog for NONEMPTYCROSSJOIN() function that exists in MSAS?
As these two attributes belong to the dimension that is used in the query, for every member of the dimension, there is one and only one member of each attribute. Therefore I though that Essbase should "know" how to behave.
Thanks for an idea. I will try to increase the space for aggregation - hope this will help...
Best Regards,
Alex

Calculation issue on attribute dimension

The issue that I'm facing with is as below. I have two pass calc on some of the measures in the outline. Since I'm not doing any calculation on the attribute dimension, when I drill down using this dimension it pops up an error message
"Two-pass calc skipped on member [X] in attribute calc"
Please advise on how to resolve this.
Thr formula has @CURRMBR. The DBAG says that If a member formula contains a run-time dependent function associated with an attribute member name, and the member with the formula is tagged as two-pass, calculation skips the member and issues a warning message.
It also says that Two-pass calculation member property is unavailable for attribute dimensions.
So does it mean that every two pass calc member is skipped?
I'm a bit confused.. how does it work?
Is there a resolution for my issue? Please confirm if there is a way to get this two pass calc done for the formula with @CURRMBR.
Thanks.
null
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Hello,
I will give it a try:
<< I assume you have the two-pass calc member on the accounts dimension and the associated dimension of the attribute dimension is not the accounts dimension either. >>
Attribute dimensios are calculated dynamically. They provide a different view on the members of the associated dimension which they belong to. There are 5 different calculation functions in the rollup of the members on the base dimension (sum, min, max, count, average).
So this is within the associated dimension (sparse) which is linked to the attribute dimension (virtual).
The accounts dimension is always involved in displaying figures. The attribute calculation e.g. sum is done last. So the dynamic calculations have to be done first. This message is likely a warning message that the value displayed is not the result of the two-pass calculation, but from the attribute calculation.
You might review the storage setting of the member. Often the @currmbr is also not necessary in the formula when considering the calculation order of the members.
Hope this helps a bit.
Regards,
Philip Hulsebosch
www.trexco.nl

Hierarchical attribute dimension with Essbase Studio

Hi everybody,
I need to load product dimension which is organized in a relational parent-child table like this:
(parent_code, member_code, member_alias, brand, consolidation, formula)
Every product has a brand and I need to load brand as attribute dimension. The thing is Brand is not flat but it has its own hierarchy. For Brand I have another relational table where data is organized parent-child like this:
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I need to do this load with Essbase Studio but I do not known how to create the Product hierarchy in cube schema in order to load the hierarchical parent-child attributes. Documentation and tutorials only show examples for flat attributes. I thought of these two ways but not sure if will work:
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case 2) Product hierarchy like this:
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Thank you,
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---member Code
Brand Parent
---Brand Code
-----Member Code.
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1. Remember to create the self join between Parent_code and Member code
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