Converting data through mapping table

Question

Member names of account dimension in our Essbase will be changed totally.In Excel we have a mapping table which tells how new accounts corresponds to old accounts. Number of accounts is about 800.How this conversion procedure should technically be done? Can I exploit Excel table?Thanks,Jussi

Answer 1

Here is what I would do. In general terms create a couble of dimension build rules and text load files from your spreadsheet. First create a rule to add new members, being the altered accounts, but with a formula that just makes them equal to the old account ("old account";). Use your conversion spreadsheet for the columns, however, you need to add a column in front that shows the parent of the account, so that it knows where to put it. Build the dimension and run a calc all calculation, to populate the new members.Change the input file to remove the formulae and rebuild the dimension.Create a new text file of the old accounts with a parent "to be deleted", making sure the rule "allow moves" and do a dimension build.You will see a new parent "to be deleted" with all the old accounts underneath it. Just delete it manually in application manager. You may have problems with shared members, formulae, and filters that reference them, but they can be cleaned up after.