Displaying non-level determining dimension attributes in bibeans with cwm2

In the bibdemo example (defined using the CWM API), the attributes PROD_COLOR and PROD_SIZE are defined as dimension attributes of the Product dimension. They are then available to bibeans applications for use in the query editor/match condition (as where clauses e.g. where Size = LARGE).
When I define OLAP metadata objects using the CWM2 API, my non-level determining dimension attributes are not available in the bibeans query editor.
Has any one exprienced this problem? Is there a work-around or code fragment that explains how to get dimension attributes defined using CWM2 to work in bibeans apps.

basically there are list and hierarchical dimensions.
the first type doesnt have a hierarchy, so some sort of special case of the 2nd.
i used attributes on list dimensions successfully in the past.
the only thing i had to do is nevertheless define a "artificial" level.
let me know if you need more,
thomas

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Hi Greg,
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Some of the non-key attribute columns in the tabular model tables (mainly the tables which form dimensions) do not contain pretty names. So for the non-key attribute columns which I need to provide pretty names I renamed the columns to something else.
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Now here comes the fun part. For every table, inside the Tables node (Tabular SSAS Database > Tables) you can view the partition details. You have single partition per dimension table if you do not create extra partitions. I opened the partitions screen
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After that I created calculated columns (with a pretty name) for all the columns which complained and all the source columns to the calculated columns were hid from the client tools. I deployed the cube, processed the cube and performed a
syntax check. No errors and everything were perfect.
I ran the query which gave me trouble and guess what... it executed within 5 seconds. My problem is solved. I really do not know who did this improve the performance but the trick worked for me.
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