Dimension Hierarchy Help

Guys,
We have a product hierarchy that goes like this:
Division, department, category, sub category, range, line, option
We have a logical dimension table that has 2 sources. One source table only goes down to the category level and the other contains the whole hierarchy. What we would like it to do is use the summary table until you go below category level. This sodesn't seem to happen. We have checked the log and if you extract Division in answers OBIEE still queries the detail table.
We have tried making the summary table the number one source but it doesn't help. It only works when you extract Division with Fact information.
This is causing us an issue with prompts which are taking too long as they are querying the detail table.
Does anybosy know how we can force OBI to use the summary table at the top levels?
(We have also looked in to forcing OBI to always use the summary table at certain levels but this doesn't work. The summary table links on a category code and the detail table links on a option code. If detailed fact tables tried to join to the summary table it wouldn't work.)
Thanks in advance,
Jim.

Jim,
Can you create an Alias of the product category table in the physical layer, perform joins as usual.
Now add this as an additional source to your existing logical table, but don't associate this logical table source with ANY levels.
The newly added logical table source must be your 1st source within your logical table.
Now check your SQL related to prompt containing all the levels above category.
neilwelling,
If your issue is same as Jim, give it a try.
let me know if this was helpful.
P.S don't forget to "relaod server metadata" & clear your cache for appropriate results.
-bifacts
http://www.obinotes.com
Edited by: bifacts on Oct 29, 2010 11:04 AM
Edited by: bifacts on Oct 29, 2010 11:06 AM

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