AGO functions with diferent time attibutes

i have problem! i have too columns Year ago and month ago. When i take these columns with Month i can see only results from Month Ago (Year ago is no results), but when i take year and year ago i can see results from year ago. How can ia see year ago results with month column?????
My Ago functions :
Month ago: Ago("RU"."FSG fact - Budget"."Budget sum" , "RU"."WH Dim - TimeDim"."period" , 1) period is like (2008.01; 2010.02; ....)
Year ago: Ago("RU"."FSG fact - Budget"."Budget sum" , "RU"."WH Dim - TimeDim"."Year" , 1) year is like (2008; 2010;....)
please help !!!!!

For Month_Ago column i set level Period and for Year_Ago level Year! but i still get problem - when i take fact column with MonthAgo and YearAgo columns and Month column from time dimension, MonthAgo works fine, but YearAgo shows '0' in all months and in the end of table after last moth shows all sum by year !
and i have also Time dimension made from 2 Logical source tables!
when i use grand total level i get error massege:
State: HY000. Code: 10058. [NQODBC] [SQL_STATE: HY000] [nQSError: 10058] A general error has occurred. [nQSError: 43113] Message returned from OBIS. [nQSError: 22047] The Dimension used in Ago function must be referenced in the query. (HY000)

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Hi,
you can not do it in Administration tool but you can set agregation for that field in Answers (fx->Agregation rule->Sum) and effect should be the same. Note that it may not work properly on Oracle 10g as generated SQL is not 100% recognized, on 11g everything is OK (at least in my case).
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