Different drill paths for a common Essbase Dimension with varied depth

Hi,
Need a solution to a problem that I have come across where in I have two Essbase cubes, In both the cubes there exists a dimension A, the dimension has different number of levels in each of the cubes. How do I associate the dimension drill path to match their existing structure in the respective cubes? I want to have only one dimension in the BMM Level.
An example scenario would be :
Cube 1: Product -> Product Category -> Product Sub-Category -> Product Name
Cube 2: Product -> Product Category
I want to have only one Product Dimension in the BMM layer and have multiple Hierarchies on it. My Problem is how do I associate the drill path specific to the cube on which it should work? The cubes are identical to each other in every other aspect other than this one difference.
Thanks and Regards,
jboy

@user3879025: No-one mentioned SAP and ragged hierarchies work perfectly fine for Essbase and MS Analysis server for example.
@jboy: Well ok, so you will have logical table and one hierarchy.
Physically, you will have to define a complex join (physical ones won't work...we discussed that lately here) where Cube1.Country = Cube2.Country.
The logical table will have four logical columns "World", "Region", "Country" and "City". You create those by starting off with the logical table from Cube1. The you pull Cube2.Country onto the Cube1.Country column to get a double mapping for that column. The you pull the Cube2.City column onto the Cube2 logical table source.
Now go through the LTS and columns and make sure they have the correct levels set. LTS for Cube1 will be at level "Country". LTS Cube2 will be "City".
For the hierarchy, you'll also start off with the one which has been created from Cube1.
Since there's now only one column called "Country" remaining, you're already in the green down to that level. Now add a new child which contains the "City" column. That's your hierarchy taken care of.
Now the thing missing is the measures of course. Here you will need to get the levels right again. Cube1.Measure1 and Cube1.Measure2 will be at content level "Country" while the Cube2 measures will be at level "City".
Best thing to do would be to confine that model in an own business model (at least an own presentation catalog) to eliminate problems coming from other (unconforming) dimensions that you will most likely have and hence potential errors thrown for users which are unaware of the actual structure in the background.
Hth,
C.

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