Adding budget Facts at higher levels to other Facts

Hi,
Hoping someone can advise.
I have a table of budget figures at the week and vessel level and I need to incorporate them into my business model but not sure how to do it. I have a time dimension year - period - week - day and a corridor dimension seacorridor - corridor - vessel - route. I want the budget figure to be able to sum up to the levels above where it is available.
I have tried setting the measure with the levels being at vessel and week but it doesn't seem to be working.
I would appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks
Patricia

Pete,
Thanks a million you have been extremely helpful - this has worked. I just have a couple of queries in relation that you might be able to help with.
1) I have a report that uses some Journey facts plus budget facts i.e. 'No of Car Journies' (from JourneyFacts) with 'Car Volume' ( from budgetFacts) I need to filter my 'No of Car Journies' to just checked in Journies - the field checked in is in a Journey Details dimension table with no hierarchy associated. If I add this to the report the 'Car Volume' budget figures become null. Can you help ? Perhaps I need to add a checked in Flag to my budget table and join this to the journey details table ? I can add this filter to the actual columns in the report or at the BMM layer but this would involve a bit work on my part as I have quite a few facts and there would be other variations of filters. Just thought you might know another way
2) I have an ago function using yearweek level ( I needed this so that I can compare week numbers as oppposed to week date ranges which is how the year ago function works). If I have a total on year or period in my pivot table I get the below error -
State: HY000. Code: 10058. [NQODBC] [SQL_STATE: HY000] [nQSError: 10058] A general error has occurred. [nQSError: 22036] Level in AGO function (YearWeek) must be a rollup of (or equivalent to) the measure level (Year). (HY000)
3) If I use period in my report it defaults back to the previous wrong answers ( i.e. multiplies by number of days) and in my NQQuery log I can see if picking this up from the normal calendar. If I used yearperiod (which is the Chronological Key) it works fine. Therefore I have to use YearPeriod for my drilldown. This ins't really a big deal - it is just for display purposes it would be nice to use period.
Thanks again for you time,
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