Add Selection Dimension Members in package LoadInfoprovider

Hello,
I have a requirement where i have to add dimensions Entity and Time into standard package LoadInfoprovider.
I need to allow user to choose wich entity he wants to extract from Bw infocube into BPC infocube.
Using the transformation file to do this is not a option because my client has 200 entities and we don't have to maintan 200 files.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Regards,
Sílvia
Edited by: Sílvia Marques on Nov 24, 2009 7:48 PM

Sílvia,
This type of dynamic selection is not supported by the LoadInfoprovider process chain or the transformation file structure in the 7.0 version. The issue is that there is no delivered way to pass DM prompts through to the transformation file, so you have to preset the *SELECTION= option in the transformation file and then choose your selection based on your transformation file.
You have a few options:
1. Usually we try to create transformation files that correspond to the groups of entities our different user groups will be interested in. This cuts down on the multiple transformation file issue (200 entities down to the number of user groups).
2. Another option, which we have not had to use, is to use security or work status to protect entities that a particular user is not supposed to be able to write to. These records will then be rejected in the load. (You'll need to set your rejected record limit very high in the transformation file for this to work.)
3. A last option is to set up a load of all entities into the BPC application in a "load" datasource (or a staging application), then allow the user to bring entities over into the main reporting datasource using the Copy DM package, which allows a granular and dynamic selection.
Overall, I'd recommend attempting to design your application in such a way that users will not have to make the choice to load specific entities, so that you can avoid these workarounds.
Ethan

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