Attributes while we design infocube

Hi Experts,
when we design an IC we add charateristics to it. Is it good practice to add just an attribue as an characteristic ignoring the masterdata.
Say for expamle i want to query on an infocube which has just material color and not material master assigned to it..so when i query on this infocube, can i get the values for that field in the query..
Thanks
dave
Message was edited by: Dave Marcus

Hi,
We are not really giving all histrorical changes by taking the attribute in the Dimension itself. So I can say this partial Histrical changes are meaning less.
Assume that the company has 4 years of data, and assume we are starting BW implementation today. So We cannot give all histrorical changes of this attribute which were occured in the past to today. Only we can give istrorical changes of this attribute which will occur in the comming future from today.
With rgds,
Anil Kumar Sharma .P

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