Dimension members -Question???

Is it possible to add dimension members using script logic?

Thanks for your reply.
i am working on TOP down allocation..since we cannot write data to a parent member, i want to create a dummy base member for an entity to store the total and then do the allocation.
how to do this? currently i manually updated the entity dimension by adding a dummy base member.
is there anyother way to do this?

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Automatic creation of new dimension members

Hello all,
Bit of a long post so please bear with me.
I am about to embark on only my third BPC project after having spent several years implementing solutions using BusinessObjects Planning (formerly SRC software), and am still struggling to come up with an elegant solution to the fact that I cannot save data to dimension elements unless they are already explicitly defined in the dimension member list (presumably due to cube architecture).
Those of you who have used BOP/SRC will remember this as unvalidated dimensions.
I find having to first go to admin and pre create members before being able to use an input schedule to save data against them is very restrictive.
I'm hoping one of you guys can help me improve on the workaround I currently use.
For example I have a 'bid submission' input schedule that is used by the user to submit bids for increased budget, capital or revenue, capturing basic costs and commentary. The user selects a bid number from a combo box which is populated by using an EVLST formula to read in pre created dimension members. I have to save a flag to the db which I then use to exclude already used numbers when feeding the combo box on future submissions.
Which works ok but if I have a hierarchy on bid number based on say, cost centre, how do I get around the fact that number ranges have to be pre-assigned to cost centre, Cost Centre A = 1 to 1000, Cost Centre B = 1001 to 2000 etc. What happens if I go over the 1000 on Cost centre A? I then get non contiguous ranges per cost centre.
Is it possible for the bid number to be dictated by the user when they start to fill in the bid submission? Or give the impression that they are?
Or if the client has a bid number format that cannot be pre created? Eg incorporating things like year or person etc. This information could be save separately but not within the bid number. Is it possible to save data to dimension property columns from an input schedule?
Hope you guys can help
Many thanks
Phil

Philip,
few questions.
Which versio of BPC.
What is your data Source
there are few post on the below link you may find helpful
Please list your Question in short with the tings you want.
Re: AdminTask_MakeDim.dts
Thanks

Import Comments data and Dimension Members from csv file via Data Manager

Dear Experts,
I have two questions regarding the data manager.
Q1.Is it possible to import "Comments" from the csv file via Data Manager?
We'd like to import the amount with "Comments".
My image of csv file is like below;
ACCOUNT,CATEGORY,TIME,ENTITY,INPUTCURRENCY,AMOUNT,COMMENTS
1100000,ACTUAL,2010/06,LC,30000,This is comment
Q2.Is it possible to import the dimension "members" from the csv file via Data Manager?
We have a user-defined dimension named "Project"
and would like to import the members, instead of maintaining them in BPC administration manually.
I found an online help information which says "Import Master Data from a Data File Example",
but I could not find any relevant sample package for this.
(I tried to import the members by using "Import" package, but it failed...)
reference:http://help.sap.com/saphelp_bpc75/helpdata/en/86/8b1bfc12c94fb0b585cca70d6f1b61/content.htm
Thanks in advance for your help.
Fumi

Hi Fumi,
In this case, I would suggest you to create a customized SSIS package which will fill-in the "Comment<APP>" table, according to the csv file you have. I do not know any standard package that allows you to import comment the way you would like...
Best Regards,
Patrick

Changes in hierarchy dimension members causes EVDRE Errors retrieving data

Hi everybody,
I am facing the problem while retrieving the data in Evdre this is the following situacion:
1. BPC 7.5 NW SP 08 is used.
2. Suppose that you have a template where you defined SELF,DEP for an account dimension, you expand and refresh normally, and retrieved data OK.
3. Your business case makes that you have to move one of the dependant member of the hierarchy to another parent
then you go to mantain dimension member and change the parent of the member in question, finally you process dimension, and put available set status.
4. Yo re-open Template or refresh dimension members from the server in order to see update hierarchy in account dimension
5. After expanding and refreshing the evdre, shows and error "...while retrieving the data.. "
6. I suppose the way to fix it is to reverse the change in dimension member, so I change for initial parenth but error continue.
What do you recommend for fix it? is there any note which solve it?

Hi Sabine,
Hi Sabine,
Thanks for your answer, we followed all the steps you suggested, but the problem continue,
Could you confirm us what is the the path of that XML file of dimension thought BW - UJFS?
The only thing that correct problem is doing the following but not should be the best way:
1. Supress Account dimension in application
2. Delete dimension
3. Recreate Dimension and process it
4. insert dimension into application
5. Refresh Evdre and then works fine!
Is there any Sap note about it or something else to check?
Thanks For your help

Number of dimension members

Hi! :) Can anyone advise on what are recommendations on the max number of dimension members for each HP dimension taking into account that the cube can be alone and can be partitioned? Thanx! :-)
Edited by: user10129034 on 29.05.2009 0:24

I will take a stab at this...just went to Essbase boot camp and the question you ask is a loaded question.
Because of its multi-dimensional architecture and its data storage in 'blocks'...the answer is 'it depends'.
One of the critical issue with dimensions and its members is 'Is the dimension Spare or Dense'?
Best practices is to have minimal amount of Dense dimensions (which makes up your block size) than of Spare dimensions (which determines the amount of blocks you have)
In my training this question was asked from a DBA used to transactional database and asked what the max is.
The instructor indicated there really isn't a limit, clearly defined.
I thought I saw something in the essbase admin but I am unable to find it if someone could add it would be great
so if you have several dimensions or dimensions with several members you need to determine their density which in turn dictates the system performance and functionality.
JTS
Edited by: jts on May 29, 2009 7:18 AM

Deleting dimension members

We have an AW with cubes refreshing every day. Fast solve of these cubes with incremental set of data finishes usually within an hour or two.
Our recent requirement needs for us to remove some old facts as well as a few dimension members. The facts can be cleared but we noticed that deleting dimension members (using synch load) is causing a full cube solve due to changed relations. With the amount of data existing in this AW, full solve takes about 2 days to complete. Deleting dimension members for which we never ever loaded any facts also causes the same result as above.
I was wondering if there is any way we can delete these dimension members without triggering a full cube solve.
Another question is if it is possible to update dimension primary keys inside of the AW?
Any help is really appreciated.
Database Version 11.2.0.3

These types of questions have been answered in the past by David Greenfield.
There are two ways to delete a dimension member through commands.
(1). OLAP dml command "REMOVE_DIMENSION_MEMBER" explained here: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/olap.112/e17122/dml_commands_2042.htm#OLADM2692
OR
(2). dbms_cube.build command:
exec dbms_cube.build(q'! "TIME" USING (DELETE FROM DIMENSION WHERE MEMBER = 'APR-2011') !');
Take a look at this old post, where David Greenfield explained it.
https://forums.oracle.com/message/9426946
There is no way to rename a dimension member in a standard-form analytical workspace. There is "MAINTAIN RENAME" olap dml command, but it will not work with dimensions created through AWM. You can add the new dimension member, then copy cube data associated with old/existing member to the new member and then delete the old member.
For cube copy data example, take a look at these old (15-Feb-2011, 16-Feb-2011 and 17-Feb-2011) posts by David Greenfield:
https://forums.oracle.com/thread/2176409

Page Dimension Members & Security

I have cost centers dimension in my page view on a data form. My question is that will the cost center dimension members be displayed as per security/access permissions when users click the drop down menu ? In other words, if a user only has access to costcenters a,b & c - is that all they will see ?
Version is 11.1.2.

Roles can be assigned to a user (via HSS):
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17236_01/epm.1112/hss_admin/ch09s04s05.html
Once you have created a user and assigned him roles as per your requirement, below link will help you in assigning access to the members.
How to assign access to members in Hyperion Planning:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17236_01/epm.1112/hp_admin/acc_mem.html
Cheers...!!!

Filtering Dimension Members

Hi,
Is it possible in OLAP DML to filter dimension members based on dimension attribute ?
For example show customers where gender is male ?

Thanks, it works.
One more question
I want to use the same condition in a QDR expression. i-e Retrieve the sales of male customers. The statement
report sales(gender_rel, 'MALE') --- ( Does not work because gender_rel is not a dimension)
Could you please tell me how can I achieve this ?

How can I manage access to dimension members in a layout?

Hello,
I have a dimension member list of materials (400) on a "material" dimension. But some people have access to one portion of the whole group and others may have access to other groups. But the materials can be shared between groups so I cannot group them in differents hierarchies.
The problem is in the layout you need to select a hierachy to show various rows (the whole group of materiales). The layout shows all the list of materials. Even if the user only have access to 10 of them. I don't know how is the best way for presenting this to the user? It should presents only the 10 rows corresponding to his materials.
One way that I found (but I don't find it acceptable because of the hard effort that represents the maintenance) is to create differents member access profiles and denied the access to each material (dimension member - 390) that the user cannot modified. Then in excel I have to run a macro that hides all the rows that have an empty description in the cell of the material name.
How can I achive this?
Is there a function in BPC to see if a user have access or not to a dimension member?
The only way to show in a layout various rows is to set in the view a hierarchy?
Thanks & Regards
SU

hi
pl. verify whether this will suit your requirements:
Material           UG1           UG2
MAT1               Y
MAT2                                 Y
MAT3               Y
MAT4                                 Y
MAT5               Y               Y
Now UG1,UG2 diff user groups and property in Material. Assignment of Y is one time job.
At the time of accessing the dimension members can restrict on the basis of UG1="Y" or UG2="Y" property
Here MAT5 is common in both UG1 and UG2
(Hardly may have 3-4 set of users: Accordingly can have UG1,UG2,UG3,UG4 etc.)
sri

Using intersection of dimension members in a SINGLE column/row name

I need help understanding how a single row/column name in a report can be populated with an intersection of two different dimension members of an Essbase cube (ASO). For example, suppose I have two dimensions members in my cube - Sales and Qtr1. Now I want to create a single column-name in my Smartview or FR report called "Sales in Qtr1" that would store values for Qtr1->Sales. Also, i want to have a single column name such as (Qtr1->Sales % Qtr2->Sales).
Is this done via a report script or some other method?
My report would look as follows:
Sales in Qtr1 | Sales in Qtr2 | Qtr1 Sales as a percent of Qtr2 Sales
Region1 100 | 200 | 50%
Region2 25 | 100 | 25%
Would appreciate any guidance.
Thanks.
Axe

Getting the data the way you've described is really easy, just nest the dimensions in Excel (or whatever reporting tool), one dimension over the other.
It's the same for rows as it is columns (okay, in rows instead of columns).
Essbase is very good about doing asymmetrical reports. Take a look at the DBAG and scroll down for the section labelled "Generating Symmetric Reports" -- the second example shows a asymmetric report.
Making the label one cell? A bit hard in Excel -- you'd have to create separate retrieve ranges and report ranges or play a game with hiding rows. Very easy indeed in Financial Reports -- you basically hide a row and put whatever custom label you want in the dimension that remains (technically speaking you could hide both rows and do this with a text row -- whatever you prefer -- but I've generally seen this with the former technique.
Regards,
Cameron Lackpour

SSRS with calculated dimension members SSAS

Hello everybody,
I have an interesting scenario involving a SSRS report with a matrix connected to a SSAS cube containing calculated dimension members.
One of the parameters is "Reference Week". Based on that parameter, I need the measures for the previous 5 weeks.
So I created an anchor dimension "Analysis Weeks" with the members "Week -1" to "Week -5".
Everything is working fine. The only problem is the names of the columns on the report.
Currently I have "Current Week", "Week -1", etc. as column names, I'd like to show the real dates.
For example, if I choose "2014-02-15" as the reference week, I want the first column to show "2014-02-15" instead of "Current Week". The second would show "2014-02-08" instead of "Week -1", etc.
I tried to get the current column position in the matrix, which I could use the with @ReferenceWeek parameter, but I can't access that property.
Any suggestion?
Thanks

If I understand correctly, your column group is on "Analysis Weeks", is that right? If so just get the value of that field and use it to get the dates.
=DateAdd("d",-1*CInt(Right(Fields!AnalysisWeeks.Value,1))*7,Fields!ReferenceWeek.Value)
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Error while transporting Dimension Members from Dev to Quality

Hi all,
I am having issue while I am transporting dimension members from dev to QA, The error log is as below; i am not sure what could be wrong;
Start of the after-import method UJT_TLOGO_AFTER_IMPORT for object type(s) AAPS,AMBR ( )
Member formula expanded for imported master data
Start of data checker messages for Appset XXXX
Possible Dead File/Dir:
Possible Dead File/Dir:
Possible Dead File/Dir:
Possible Dead File/Dir:
Error occurs when checking member formula use on other dimensions
No access to environment 'XXXX'
No access to environment 'XXXX'
BPF: Error reading master data
No access to environment 'XXXX'
Errors occurred during post-handling UJT_AFTER_IMPORT for AAPS L
UJT_AFTER_IMPORT belongs to package UJT
The errors affect the following components:
EPM-BPC-NW-TRA (Transport)
please advise.
Thanks.
Ambika

hi Raju,
i tried after giving full access but again same error:-
please see the error log below:-
Start of the after-import method UJT_TLOGO_AFTER_IMPORT for object type(s) AAPS,AMBR ( )
Member formula expanded for imported master data
Start of data checker messages for Appset PETFAS
Possible Dead File/Dir:
Possible Dead File/Dir:
Possible Dead File/Dir:
Possible Dead File/Dir:
Error occurs when checking member formula use on other dimensions
No access to environment 'PETFAS'
No access to environment 'PETFAS'
No access to environment 'PETFAS'
No access to environment 'PETFAS'
No access to environment 'PETFAS'
No access to environment 'PETFAS'
No access to environment 'PETFAS'
No access to environment 'PETFAS'
No access to environment 'PETFAS'
No access to environment 'PETFAS'
No access to environment 'PETFAS'
InfoObject catalog /CPMB/PETFAS_CHAR is not available in version A
BPF: Error reading master data
No access to environment 'PETFAS'
End of data checker messages for Appset PETFAS
End of after import methode UJT_TLOGO_AFTER_IMPORT (Aktivierungsmodus) - runtime: 00:00:
Starting after import method UJT_TLOGO_AFTER_IMPORT for object type(s) AAPS,AMBR in dele
End of after import methode UJT_TLOGO_AFTER_IMPORT (Löschmodus) - runtime: 00:00:00
Errors occurred during post-handling UJT_AFTER_IMPORT for AAPS L
UJT_AFTER_IMPORT belongs to package UJT
The errors affect the following components:
EPM-BPC-NW-TRA (Transport)
any suggestion..
thanks,
Ambika

How to auto-update of script logics after adding new dimension members?

Hi Experts,
Just wanna ask if BPC has a functionality that would automatically update/validate and save my script logic whenever I add new dimension members. I've added new PL accounts but they are not automatically added to my calculated BS Net Income. I had to re-validate and save my logic for it to be included in my logic and for the amounts to be computed correctly.
Thanks,
Marvin

Hi Marvin,
There is no functionality as such. we need to configure the script as and when we make any changes in the dimension members.
Regards
Raman

Cannot maintain dimension members in SAP BPC

Hello, Masters in BPC
I have just create mention and want to input data, I used maintain dimension members CUSTOMER in SAP BPC but It seem not effect although I press Process dimension already and I open excel and paste data also saved them already. When I open other dimension and reopen CUSTOMER but nothing is shown.
Please give me a advice to resolve the problem.
Thanks you so much.
Best Regards
Chinh

Dear Raju,
Yes, I did it some times but nothing is happen,
I maintain dimension members, I did it as below:
- Choose maintain dimension members
- copy data from excel file and paste into the dimension
- click process dimension
Show a dialog
- Uncheck Take system offine
This task is successful.
but I go to dimension ACCOUNT in order to insert data,
I came back maintain dimension members : CUSTOMER but I see no data is displayed.
It is the same for ACCOUNT when I want to see data on that dimension
when I try one more time , I click save to server, The Error message show that : Dump Error
I reinstall BPC client and its patch but nothing to change
How can I do???
Thanks

Attribute Dimension members in Planning Data form

Hi All,
Can we see Attribute dimension members in Planning data form ? Pls. help

Yes it is possible in 11.1.1.3, for example in your row select a dimension that has attributes associated with it. select dimension properties next to the down drop.
Tick "Enable custom attribute display (setting applies to all dimensions with associated attributes): "
Select the attribute dimension
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John
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