Duplicate member names in member formulae

How do you reference duplicate member names in a member formulae? In Excel or dimension building you say i.e. [TEST].[test1]. That format doesn't work in member formulae. Is anyone using duplicate name? If you do, maybe you have an answer.

In System 9 databases, you can use a "duplicate member name" outline, in which case when you have the same member name more than once in an outline, Essbase automatically tells them apart. For example, you could have a Gen3 member named "New York" with a child named "New York", or many different states with children named "Springfield", for example. Or you could have a product code named "100" and also a customer code named "100". You don't have any control over how the names are constructed, and unfortunately the automatically-generated name for a member may change if a duplicate for it is introduced in the outline, so you really don't want to use the "unique name" values returned from API calls. You can always refer to them by using a full ancestor path, like this: [Geography].[East].[New York].[New York] I don't know for sure but I would imagine the same is true in calc scripts and non-MDX member formulas: "Geography"."East"."New York"."New York" HTH

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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?
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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

Duplicate member names allowed dimension build

I have turned on allow duplicate members in a current ASO essbase cube to test how much rework this will require to allow duplicate aliases. After I switched the property on, I was recieving errors when attempting to associate an attribute to a dimension through a dimension build rule. I realized that I needed to use qualified member names in the load file. Here is an example of the file in Parent Child AttributeValue format
[Domestic-PD].[Test_Comm-PD]     [Test_Comm-PD].[0001-PD]      [Test_Attr-MD].[Test1-MD]
So I want to associate the attribue Test1-MD to product 0001-PD below.
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It ended up working in a different format. I changed the data file to like below. I also started over, recopying the outline, turning duplicate members on, so it is possible that there was just something off with the outline earlier.
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When I clicked "Preview Data" it altered "duplicate member names within data preview are not currently supported".
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Duplicate member names 9.3.1

The planning documentation seems to suggest that duplicate member names can occur in Planning 9.3.1 although I have seen a post ~(Nov 2007) on here that states that this won't be available until 9.5.
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Cheers

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Hyperion Planning Smart View issue with Member Names & Aliases

Hi,
Im using Smart View "Essbase" Connection to a Hyperion Planning Application, ver 11.1.1.3, however with the essbase connection i am not able to select at the smart view options to see aliases, members or both. I change the setting ( Duplicate member names allowed =true) directly at the properties of the outline in EAS, and now i am able to see the aliases, however if time I refresh using web planning/workspace this setting is undone. Furthermore i dont thing i should use it with planning. Any comments?
Kind Regards

First of all I hope you have not changed the properties of the outline in EAS for a planning application.
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http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

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I created a metaoutline in EIS to load an ASO cube.
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When i checked the cube from Essbase Admin console, i can see that the outline has been created but the member names are not visible in the outline - the weirder thing is that the aliases and formulae of members are visible in the outline.
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Hi,
Do you guys have an idea as to why this could be happening? I'm trying to tune some BSO cubes which run for hours together and trying to convert them to ASO but am stuck at this point!
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Cannot change from member name to alias description in Smartview

I am connected to an Essbase datasource using version 11.1.1.3 of Smartview and Excel 2007. I click on the Hyperion tab, the Options button on the ribbon, go to then the Display tab and all of the Member Name Display options window is greyed out. Member name only is selected by default but I cannot change it (because all options are greyed out). I haven't seen this before.
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Member Name Display Options will only be enabled if you connect to a database that has an outline containing duplicate members.
If your Essbase system permits the use of duplicate member names, you can choose whether to display member names with or without their descriptions or aliases.
To check if your Outline does allow duplicate members, follow these steps:
1. Open the outline in edit mode.
2. Go to the Properties tab.
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1. Open Connection Manager.
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3. Right click on the link of your application.
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6. Click OK.
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Dimension Name = Member Name?

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ICP: [NONE] [-1]
C1: [MISSING_VALUE] [-1]
C2: [NONE] [0]
C3: [NONE] [0]
C4: [NONE] [0]
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Err = Invalid Member Name In Lookup ({|0|}) value in ID indicates invalid member)
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Entity: MUMBAI [7]
Parent Entity: MUMBAI [7]
Value: ENTITY CURRENCY [-1]
Account: TOTALLIABILITIES [-1]
ICP: [NONE] [-1]
C1: [MISSING_VALUE] [-1]
C2: [NONE] [0]
C3: [NONE] [0]
C4: [NONE] [0]
Also we could see in the Expression after lookup substitution (scratch pad): we are getting 0-0=0.
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I have not looked closely, but C1 is showing as "Missing Value". Have you checked to see if [None] is a valid member for the account you have selected (TotalLiabilities)?

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