Business Rule using Exclude

Question

I'm using Essbase 9.3.1, trying to make a business rule work with an exclusion. I can make the rule work with this:
(@Level_0_Descendants("GROSS EXPENSES")) AND NOT ("1447")
but I add more than one to the Exclude:
(@Level_0_Descendants("GROSS EXPENSES")) AND NOT ("1447", "0008")
The Business rule won't run, looking at the source code:
Error Code: LAN002
+Error Args: [Ljava.lang.Object;@43b884+
ClassName: com.hyperion.hbr.excp.LanguageException
Exception Encountered "," at line 1, column 148.
Was expecting one of:
+<RIGHTPARENTHESIS> ...+
+"and" ...+
+"or" ...+
ClassName: java.lang.Exception
Syntax error while parsing AFMIC ER&W 51667 - Geo Alloc - TEST.
Anybody had luck with more than one exclusion?

Answer 1

Well, I was able to replicate your issue in 11.1.1 -- I don't use the graphical editor very much so there may be something we're both doing incorrectly although I can't see what that issue might be. Maybe someone else can chime in.
I wonder if it's a known issue -- it's so easy (and obvious) to select more than one member down into that excluded box.
If it is a defect, it appears to be carried over to 11x.
Per Glenn's comment, to get around this, you are going to need to do this as a non-graphical BR.
If this is not the way you like to work, you might think about making the FIX..ENDFIX bits as two macros and then create yet another macro to contain the graphical code in between.
I am not a fan of the graphical editor because of its generally poor performance and would just write the entire thing as an Enhanced BR.
Regards,
Cameron Lackpour