Create hierarchy based on multiple characteristics

Hello,
I am working on a very non-standard income statement report in BI and am trying to come up with a good way to maintain it. Each line item in the income statement is based on different characteristics. For instance, the first line item might be a range of account numbers using 0GL_ACCOUNT and a single order using 0COORDER. The second line item may be a particular Cost Center using 0COSTCENTER and a particular GL Account. Right now, I am using a structure within the BEx query that defines each of the 1000+ lines. The big problem is that this structure is used in multiple reports with slight variations. Any time there is a change to the structure, I have to go to 8 different places to change it because the same structure is on multiple info providers.
For other reports, we have set up hierarchies on certain characteristics (0GL_ACCOUNT, 0COSTCENTER, 0COORDER). Would it be somehow possible to create an entirely custom hierarchy that would use mixed characteristics to come up with each value? If this is not possible, can someone think of a way to have only one structure/hierarchy instead of 8?
Thanks.
Derrick

Hi Samunder,
       There is a concept called Linking of universes which allow you to link two universes and the final universe acts as if it was a single universe.
       You can get more details on linking universes in the Designer guide. But, this method is not suggested as there are many limitations and performance issues.
       But if the user wants a single universe rather than two universes you can go for this.
Regards,
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- Detail Department Level containing: Department Code (defined as Logical level key) and Department (defined as Drill level key).
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When I create a report in Answers and select both 'All Departments' and 'Sales' I get the correct result. When I try to drill to the next level I get a different ODBC error:
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Hello Robert,
Your suggestions were known to me but I still wanted to combine the two physical dimension tables in one logical dimension. So I've played around a bit more and found the solution: In my original setup I had two seperate logical table sources (one for each physical dimension table). The solution was to combine the two logical table sources in one logical table source. I achieved that by logical joining the DIM_DEPT table to the FACT_SALES table and subsequently to the DIM_ORG within the 1 LTS and using inner joins.
Then I created the logical table key (a combination of org_detail_code & dept_detail_code). After that I could create the hierarchy with no problem.
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Thank you.
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