Consolidation Frequency

Due to business reasons  consolidation is required on quarterly basis only. Added the 0CALQUARTER infoobject for this purpose to BCS cube. All BCS task need to be executed on quarterly basis only.
Now what is the role to assigned to this infoobject, since our consolidation task has to be executed using this infoobject.  The role period is already assigned to month.
Appreciate to share your experience/thoughts,

Hi Eugene,
Thanks for the details. We already have the derivation in BI cube to derive the calquarter details.
But since we have the 0CALQUARTER in the BCS totals cube and need to assign the role in 'Cons area'.
What is the role to assign? The monthly period is already assigned the role?
Should we give the role of subassignment to 0calquarter?.
Since all our consolidation process is based on quarter as frequency, shall we assign the period role to quarter and give the subassignment to month? Does it work this way?
Please let me know your opinion on role.
Edited by: Gokul on Jun 24, 2008 6:07 AM

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