Custom Interval Dimension

Hi there,
I'm looking for recommendations on a best practise here.
I have a requirement where on a given day I must have an arbitrary number of intervals (think buckets of time which are composed of transactions) where I can have at most N intervals per day. These intervals are like time but can be arbitrary lengths i.e. some are seconds, others are minutes.
How the intervals should be formed is based on my source data. On any given day, we always start with interval 1 and it is unknown the total number of intervals we will have by EOD, each interval is defined by a fixed number of transactions. For every interval I am going to need to know the end time as well.
What is the best approach here? Should I be bucketing my fact table and connecting to a standard hour/minute/second dimension or should I be using my transactional data to be making a dimension that accomidates it.

Hi,
You can very much add new infoobject to the existing time dimension of the infocube.
so i dont see any problem with that.
thanks and regards,
Rajib Debbarma

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