Drill Through Parameters

Hello,
Our organization would like to take advantage of the Drill Through functionality that is built into BPC for NetWeaver 7.5. In both the How To Guide and several blog/forum posts, the examples shown for the parameterized URL call state that the values passed as parameters must be at the base level of the dimension. This is an unrealistic expectation for our business case.
We have a custom Drill Through developed for our implementation of BPC for Microsoft 7.0. The report we execute the Drill Through from is a financial cost report. Rows(Account) and columns(Time) are rarely displayed at the base value-level. In addition we have EvDRE filters for Company, Profit Center, and Cost Center that are usually set at the "All" level (but not always). Business users drill through a specific cell to see all detail transaction data corresponding to the cell value.
In order to "explode" each dimension, we developed custom user-defined functions in SQL Server. A dimension value is passed to the function, the function "explodes" through the dimension and returns a list of all base level values related to the passed value. The tables returned from each function (account, time, company, cost center, profit center) are then used to filter transaction detail via a SQL Server stored procedure.
It must be possible to develop this same sort of "dimension explosion" logic within the BPC for NetWeaver 7.5 environment. The question is how can it be accomplished? We've come up with some possible alternatives:
1) Develop a transaction which can be accessed through the ITS. The transaction would read the BPC dimensions as stored in the BW, perform the "dimension explosion" logic, then pass the value lists for each dimension as filters to a custom ABAP report or Bex Query,
2) Develop logic in .ASPX/C# to execute a Microsoft SSIS package that pulls data from the dimensions using the SAP BI connection manager. The resulting value lists are then passed to a parameterized WebI or Crystal Report.
3) Develop a custom menu selection, calling macro logic created within our cost report. The macro logic would perform the "dimension explosion" logic, then somehow store the resulting value lists so they can be consumed by the drill through executed via a call to mnu_ETOOLS_DRILLTHOUGH_RUN.
We're not sure how feasible each of these alternatives are, and hope some of you out there can share your thoughts.
Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help!
Wendell Giedeman

Wendell,
It seems that you've thought this through pretty thoroughly!
One other option to consider would be regularly synchronizing BPC and BW versions of your hierarchy, and then doing a lookup on the BW side without directly referencing the BPC dimension data. Yet another option would be loading your detailed data into BPC and then doing the "explosion" by using EVHOT to jump to a report on the detailed application.
Ethan

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