Duplicate member Name in same dimension in a Cube

Hi,
Can someone please let me know whether we can have same member name in a dimension for building a cube?
For Example:
I have one dimension Dim1 (Hierarchy) ,
Level2     Level1     Leaf     Leaf Code
L13 -      L11 -      L1 -      10
L13 -      L11 -      L2 -      11
L13 -      L12 -      L3 -      12
L13 -     L12 -      L4 -      13
L14 -      L11 -      L5 -      14
In this hierarchy, L11 is a member name in Level1 used under L13 and L14. Does Essbase cube support this?
I have one more dimension(Dim2) with four values like ('A','L','O','S').
I want build a cabe using these two dimension and expose that cube in OBIEE. And in OBIEE answer, I want to put a filter on 'Dim2' that means it will be a list of ('A','L','O','S'). Based on this selection I want select another dimension like for 'A' what is the value for L11 and for 'L' what is the value for L11?
Can someone please put some light on this?
Regards,
SS

user10275812 wrote:
Hi,
Can someone please let me know whether we can have same member name in a dimension for building a cube?
For Example:
I have one dimension Dim1 (Hierarchy) ,
Level2     Level1     Leaf     Leaf Code
L13 -      L11 -      L1 -      10
L13 -      L11 -      L2 -      11
L13 -      L12 -      L3 -      12
L13 -     L12 -      L4 -      13
L14 -      L11 -      L5 -      14
In this hierarchy, L11 is a member name in Level1 used under L13 and L14. Does Essbase cube support this?
Yes this is possible. You will have to enable the option for outline to allow duplicate members.
-Nra

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