Concatenate within Cross Dimensional Reference

I am trying to write a calc script in Essbase 7.1.3. I am trying to assign a value to one dimension based on a cross dimensional reference. In the CDR, I want to make it dynamic. I am trying the following. The syntax will not check. What am I doing wrong? I have checked other posts and can't find a solution. I can't make this a member property, it has to be a calc. Thanks for any help!<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif" border="0">

No typo. I slimmed down the calc a bit so it would be more discussion board friendly. We have input currencies and reporting currencies. The data is loaded to input and translated into the reporting currencies. For example CR_Loc = CR_Loc_Input + (CR_USD_Input*USD Rate) where USD rate is found using the range formula above Real world example: A Japan user input 100000 yen for a data point as well as 100 USD for the same data point. If we create a pure local currency view the math would be 100,000 Yen + (100 USD * 100 Yen/USD) so CR_LOC = 110,000 We use the range formula to retrieve the currency rate as stored in the data intersection for the account (1 oer currency) and the CR_USD reporting currency. So 100 is stored in CR_USD->AC_JPY_Rate. I know this is probably far more detail than you needed but thought it might be useful for others if they encounter the same problem.

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Alternatives for 250+ cross-dimensional operators

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I have done this with cross dimensional operators:
For example product A is made by department 1 and 2. I made two formulas in the product dimension ProdAdep1 and ProdAdep2:
Member formulas:
ProdAdep1 = Product A -> Department 1;
ProdAdep2 = Product A -> Department 2;
Product A is now made ~ and ProdAdep1,ProdBdep1, ProdCdep1 count up to Total products department 1.
I made all these formulas dynamic calc. Both the product and department dimension are sparse. There are now 250+ formulas and the caculation of the database became very slow. In my Essbase bible 'Look smarter than you are with Essbase 11' I found that the usage of a lot of cross dimensional operators is unseemly and slow.
So I figured out an alternative, a calcscript with a fix.
FIX("Product A")
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ENDFIX
But this doens't work either. Can anyone help me to think out the best solution?

Thank you Steve, its a bit more complicated.
Departments roll up to regions, products also roll up to regions, but we also have shared (central) products.
For example department 1 in region X (department dimension) can have product A (product dimension) and department 2 in region Y (department dimension) can have product A (product dimension) also. The wish is to report on products and have a full view of the regions within the product dimension.
How it is now:
Department dimension:
Total Region X
|- Department 1
|- Department 3
Total region Y
|- Department 2
|- Department 4
Product dimension:
Total Region X
|-Product C
|-Product D
Total Region Y
|- Product E
|- Product F
Central Products
|- Product A
The Wish:
Department dimension:
Total Region X
|- Department 1
|- Department 3
Total region Y
|- Department 2
|- Department 4
Product dimension:
Total Region X
|-Product C
|-Product D
|-Product A (for region X based on department)
Total Region Y
|- Product E
|- Product F
|- Product A (for region Y based on department)
Central Products
|- Product A ~
It isnt possible to add a dimension, because the problem occurs on level 0.

Optimisation of cross dimensional calculations

Hi,
Here's a script which should not take too long to run. However, this script runs for hours. Any suggestions would be great. I have added some more details about the dimensions involved.
Outline of the script:
/*Script Begins*/
SET UPDATECALC OFF;
SET CREATENONMISSINGBLK ON;
SET CACHE ALL;
SET CALCPARALLEL 5;
SET CALCTASKDIMS 2;
SET NOTICE LOW;
SET MSG SUMMARY;
FIX (@ATTRIBUTE("Existing"),@Relative("Location",0),@RELATIVE("Entity",0),&pln_scenario,"BU Budget",&plan1_yr,@RELATIVE("BOM",0), @RELATIVE("YearTotal",0))
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Dimension details: Evaluation Order which has been thought through.
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Period 35 Dense
Version 3 Sparse
Scenario 8 Sparse
Location 7 Sparse
Year 9 Sparse
Entity 20 Sparse
Product 416 Sparse
BOM 938 Sparse

Are you sure that changing the cross-dimensional order of members makes a difference?
"location wise Sales Volume"->"UBOM" * "RMQ per Unit SKU"->"YearAgg"->"All locations";instead of
"location wise Sales Volume"->"UBOM" * "RMQ per Unit SKU"->"All locations"->"YearAgg"really improves how Essbase reads its index and page files?
It seems to me that Essbase is pointing to the same block, no matter the order of the dimension combinations.
The same goes for a FIX: I can't see how the dimension order within a single FIX statement is going to cause Essbase to touch blocks differently as it will be the same list of blocks (and cells) however it's combined.
Have you benchmarked the cross-dimensional member order? I'd be really interested to hear re any differences in performance.
Regards,
Cameron Lackpour

Creating a static library with XCode cross-project references.

I have a project and am trying to move a lot of the code into a static shared library, and added a cross project reference to this library in my app.
However, when I moved a file from my app to the library (removing the reference in my app and moving the file to the library's project directory), and try building my app, I get compiler error messages as if the file I have moved doesn't exist.
When I build my library project, it says the build has succeeded, but the library.a file remains red. It is also red in the my referencing app project.
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7. I click-dragged the library.a file under the library project so that it was under the Link Binary With Library sub folder of my app's target.
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I managed to fix the problem. The steps above seem to be correct. The problem seems to be related to the source trees that are defined...
I was previously using an absolute path for the source tree which pointed at the folder containing the library project. I changed this to a relative path to the same folder (relative from the calling project) and this seems to fix it.
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Substitution variable in a cross-dimensional operator

All,
Essbase doesn't like this:
"Jan"(
("Actuals"->"2011"->"001"->"abc") = ("Run1"->"2011"->"000"->&varAP);
can I have a substitution variable inside a cross-dimensional operator?

The basic construct works for me in Sample.Basic. When you say Essbase doesn't like it, what exactly happens - fails syntax check, errors on execution or just doesn't produce the right results?
Sometimes it's necessary to include quotes in the subvar value itself, e.g. setting your subvar to *"X Y Z"* including the quotes rather than X Y Z.
I would guess you've already tried this, but does the script validate and run successfully if you replace the subvar with the value of the subvar?

Local variables with cross dimensional operator

Hi,
I have a business rule, which has the following calculation :
VAR TOTPROD;
TOTPROD = "Prod1"+"Prod2"+"Prod3";
"MBR1" = "MBR2"->"Jan"->TOTPROD/"MBR2"->"YearTotal"->"TotalProducts";
The above statement does not run for obvious reasons that TOTPROD is not a member name.
Is there a way to use a local variable in a cross dimensional operator statement?
I want to use the local variable in order to avoid making an alternate hierarchy.
I am using Essbase / HPB 11.1.2.2
Please help.
Thanks.

Hi
As you state, I dont think the approach that you have is going to work.
What about either
a. Creating a dummy product member in your outline and place your result on it (or use an existing 'dummy' product member)
b. Re-write your code to handle what you wish to do....something like (assuming you are adding Prod1, 2 and 3):
"MBR1" = ("MBR2"->"Jan"-> "Prod1"+"MBR2"->"Jan"-> "Prod2"+"MBR2"->"Jan"-> "Prod3")/"MBR2"->"YearTotal"->"TotalProducts";
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Hi. it is possible to be used with members dynamically in cross dimensional???

If you are asking can the cross dimensional calc operator (->) be successfully used in a dynamic calc member formula, the answer is yes. If you are asking a different question, please clarify.Todd

Cross Dimensional Security in Planning

Got a scenario where the customer is asking for cross dimension security in planning and not sure if it's possible
Simple Example
Assume 2 dimensions. Account and Entity
Entity has 2 members E1234 and E1235
Account has 2 members Axxx1 and Axxx2
User is User1
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One way to get around this issue is to physically merge the dimensions where you need cross-dimensional security. It's not a great solution, and with large dimensions can be completely impractical due to the number of potential combinations. But if one of your dimensions is small, it can work.
In our case, we wanted cross-dimensional security on Entities and Departments. We didn't have to create a member for every combination of Entity/Department, because not all combinations were valid (or had data), so we were able to limit the combined dimension's size somewhat.
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Cross dimensional analysis

Hi,
I'm not sure if this is possible or not so bear with me.
We've got quite a complex cube used for sales reporting and the users want to be able to extract some additional data.
To simplify it down, assume we have a number of products sold through a number of channels and sold by a number of different companies.
For the set of companies that a product can be sold through, this is dependent on the relationship between product and channel.
For example
Product 100 + Channel A = Company Z
Product 100 + Channel B = Company X
Product 200 + Channel C = Company Z
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The difficulty is that there is no pattern to say that every product 100 or everything in Channel A is sold through Company Z.
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I next looked at whether I could set up a Company dimension and use the cross dimension operator (->) within a member formula to calculate the values. This didn't seem to work very well.
Is there some other way of doing this that I'm not aware of or is it even possible?

Hi GlennS,
I can see that your suggestion should work in the situation where a product or channel both have a unique mapping to a company ie. Product 100 maps to company Z no matter which channels its sold through and everything sold through Channel B goes to Company X no matter which products.
The mapping to company in my example is at the combined relationship between Product and Channel. So for Product 100, if sold through Channel A then that could be Company Z, however if sold through Channel B then that might be Company X.
For Product 200 it might be that sales through Channel A go to Company Y, while sales through Channel B go to company Z.
In your example I would have to mark Product 100 as being either Company X or Z, when it reality it could be sold through either company depending on which channel its sold through.
Don't ask me why our sales structures are so complicated!?!
I guess if I think to how I would do something like this in excel, for each data value I would probably concatenate the product and channel together to get a unique reference. I could then test this reference using a lookup table of some sort to determine which company it relates to.
Does that make sense?
It's something that feels possible in Essbase but perhaps its a bit too complex to try and implement fully...

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Hi,
With reference to discussion (Re: Setting Application Items across APEX Applications) , I would like to know if we can pass values from one application's global item to another application?
The above mentioned discussion didn't seem to reach to any conclusion.
Scenario is -
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2. There is a link between App 1 and App 2, where it is expected to receive values for G_USER_ATTR1 from App 1 to App 2, when you navigate from App 1 to App 2, where authentication is handled by cookie.
3. On App 2, the value for G_USER_ATTR1 does not get fetched.
Am I missing something here?
Also, when what is the preocess flow on page 101 when a user gets authenticated by cookie while navigating from App 1 to App 2?
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Farhan Siddiqui wrote:
1. Application 1 has a global item G_USER_ATTR1 which gets fetched with certain attributes when user logs into the application, at page 101.
2. There is a link between App 1 and App 2, where it is expected to receive values for G_USER_ATTR1 from App 1 to App 2, when you navigate from App 1 to App 2, where authentication is handled by cookie.
3. On App 2, the value for G_USER_ATTR1 does not get fetched.
First check whether Application Item name in both application is same and
set scope of application item in both application set to global.
Farhan Siddiqui wrote:
Am I missing something here?
Also, when what is the preocess flow on page 101 when a user gets authenticated by cookie while navigating from App 1 to App 2?
I used a page process to fetch the values again in the item on App 2's page 101's post processing pl sql block. But it didn't solve my problem. Please help.
No need to write plsql block for set value of Application item in application 2.
simply refer or use :G_USER_ATTR1 as value in Application 2.

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This table is linked to SQL, so I could also write a SQL view or function if that makes a difference.
I'm using Access 2010. Thanks!
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So I guess my follow up question to this is: is there any reason I SHOULDN'T do this? Will there be any issues with existing records in the table whose values will no longer show up in the constraining dropdown subquery?
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I might not be using the right terminology. I have a lot of experience with SQL Server, relatively little with Access. I am doing this for a client who is used to entering data directly into the table, and wants minimal changes. However, the dropdown literally
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- Change the Row Source to a query, in my case, 'SELECT * FROM LinkedSQLView'
- Format the list as you want it displayed; in my case, the actual ID# is hidden in the first column, and the other ten columns are displayed.
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I have a data form with divisions and cost centers as separate dimensions in the page view. Certain combinations of divisions and cost centers are not valid for e.g. Division 7,Cost Center 13. How do I prevent users from selecting invalid combinations?

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FDM Cross Dimensional Scripting problem

Hi,
The below script isn't working. I'm trying to get just the 812 & 813 to map to 10145. I usually never use this many variables, so not sure why this isn't mapping correctly. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
JF
StrAccount=Ucase(VarValues(14))
StrLid=Ucase(VarValues(25))
StrCC=Ucase(VarValues(23))
Select case StrAccount
Case "9999", "7455", "6464", "7665", "6466"
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Case "ALLO"
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Result="10145"
Case Else
Result="10144"
End if
End Select
End Select

Actually, since your End If seems to be in the wrong place, maybe the If statement should be contained on a single line?:
If StrCC = "812" Or StrCC = "813" Then Result="10145"
In all, I'm guessing that your code should look like this:
StrAccount=Ucase(VarValues(14))
StrLid=Ucase(VarValues(25))
StrCC=Ucase(VarValues(23))
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