Dynamic members in time dimension

Hi All, In my outline, time dimension is sparse. and i kept certainhigher level members as dynamic calc. But, when I checked thedatabase information, it shows that all members in time dimensionas stored, even though some of them are dynamic calc. Any Idea? Thanks in advance,

OK...I poked around and found this in our Support database:In the database statistics, a sparse dynamic calcmember will be counted as a stored member, whilst a dense dynamiccalc member will not be counted as stored. This is normalbehavior.Although Dynamic Calc members are calculated on dataretrieval, they are considered stored members because new blocksare created upon their retrieval.An implicit or explicit shared member would not qualify as astored member because they share data and calculated values fromthe original member.This is a publicly accessible database for our customers onsupport, so you can contact them for access if desired.

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Non standard members of Time dimension

Colleagues,
I have created a Time Dimension which consists of 16 periods instead of normal 12 periods in a year.
When I attach YYYY.P13,YYYY.P14,YYYY.P15,YYYY.P16 to YYYY.TOTAL and send data for the respective periods, the input schedule saves successfully. However, on refreshing the schedule doesnt show any value ofr YYYY.P16 and YYYY.TOTAL figures doesnt seem to include the same. However, when I checked in BW; I did find values sent for YYYY.P16.
Regards,
Shrini

Hello Shrini,
Can you post a screenshot of what your time dimension looks like with these? (With all the properties if possible)
My guess is the properties may be incorrect or the hierarchy may be off a little bit.
It should be something like (using 2014 for example:
ID
BASE_PERIOD
LEVEL
PERIOD
YEAR
TIMEID
PARENTH1
2014.P01
001
MONTH
P01
2014
20140100
2014.TOTAL
2014.P02
002
MONTH
P02
2014
20140200
2014.TOTAL
2014.P03
003
MONTH
P03
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2014.P04
004
MONTH
P04
2014
20140400
2014.TOTAL
2014.P05
005
MONTH
P05
2014
20140500
2014.TOTAL
2014.P06
006
MONTH
P06
2014
20140600
2014.TOTAL
2014.P07
007
MONTH
P07
2014
20140700
2014.TOTAL
2014.P08
008
MONTH
P08
2014
20140800
2014.TOTAL
2014.P09
009
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P09
2014
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2014.P10
010
MONTH
P10
2014
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2014.TOTAL
2014.P11
011
MONTH
P11
2014
20141100
2014.TOTAL
2014.P12
012
MONTH
P12
2014
20141200
2014.TOTAL
2014.P13
013
MONTH
P13
2014
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2014.TOTAL
2014.P14
014
MONTH
P14
2014
20141400
2014.TOTAL
2014.P15
015
MONTH
P15
2014
20141500
2014.TOTAL
2014.P16
016
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P16
2014
20141600
2014.TOTAL
2014.TOTAL
012
YEAR
TOTAL
2014
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Check your Time dimension properties, if it isn't that, then I'm not sure. I'm guessing something is different for your Period 16 and your Total properties and that is why it's not displaying correctly on your report.
Thanks,
Alexander

How to know on which time dimension level we are ?

Hello,
I would like to know is there a variable or a mean to know dynamically on which time dimension level we are in order to use that in a CASE WHEN clause ?
By using a sort of aggregation tables in which one of the column contains the name of the level, I could know on which level I am but I can't use that for drill down. What I mean :
Tab1 :
'Year' as typelevel, year
Tab2 :
'Month' as typelevel, year, month
In BMM, I have made one logical table with as Source tab1 and tab2 and as columns typelevel, year and month.
tab1 has in content column the year level
tab2 has in content column the month level.
So when in Answers I retrieve
typelevel, year
the result is : 'Year', 2008
and when I request : typelevel, year, month
the result is : 'Month', 2008, 1
But if I want to drill from year to month in order to have :
'Year', 2008
and then after drill
'Month', 2008, 1
it is impossible as a filter on typelevel='Year' is added on the month level, so it retrieves 0 columns.
If someone has an idea on how to do that it would be very great.
Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi Supriya,
OOTB I think you can use SharePoint designer, but I would suggest custom code to iterate to all pages, and get the lists that are associated with these pages.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/633633/sharepoint-how-can-i-find-all-the-pages-that-host-a-particular-web-part
another one would be if those lists were never used and you can check for list with empty data.
I would use Get-SPLists to get all of the lists to check for zero items.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2010/09/15/use-windows-powershell-to-manage-lists-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx
http://sharepointrelated.com/2011/11/28/get-all-sharepoint-lists-by-using-powershell/
Hope this helps!
Ram - SharePoint Architect
Blog - SharePointDeveloper.in
Please vote or mark your question answered, if my reply helps you

EXPAND INTERMEDIATE NODE OF TIME DIMENSION

Hello!
Can anybody help me? we created members for time dimension like this:
2010.TOTAL
___2010.JAN
______2010.JAN.Q1
______2010.JAN.Q2
If we try to expand, like a column, this dimension in a Report, adding the ID in the "MemberSet", it's only possible for the TOTAL and the Q1 or Q2. But It's not possible for de month directly. In that case we have an EVDRE error "invalid member in <memberset>"
Anybody know what can I do to expand the intermediate node of the tree?
Thank you very much!!
Elena

Hi Elena,
In one of the empty cells, type the below formula
=EVPRO($B$3,$B$23,"YEAR")&".JAN.F1,"&EVPRO($B$3,$B$23,"YEAR")&".JAN.F2,"&EVPRO($B$3,$B$23,"YEAR")&".FEB.F1,"&EVPRO($B$3,$B$23,"YEAR")&".FEB.F2,"&EVPRO($B$3,$B$23,"YEAR")&".MAR,"&EVPRO($B$3,$B$23,"YEAR")&".APR,"&EVPRO($B$3,$B$23,"YEAR")&".MAY,"&EVPRO($B$3,$B$23,"YEAR")&".JUN"
Where B3 is the cell with the application name
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EVPRO($B$3,$B$23,"YEAR") is going to fetch the year from the member in the cell B23
Once you have entered the above formula in an empty cell, and if you have 2010.JAN in the cell B23, then your cell should display the value as
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In the memberset of the time dimension, refer to the cell in which you have entered the above formula.
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Bpc on Hana Time dimension

Dear Experts,
I have some problems with the creation of dummy members in time dimension.
For examples I have created this member:
2012.TOT
2012 Total Year
013
MONTH
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TOTAL
2012
Bpc permit to save data on this item, but in the Excel report I can't see it.
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I work with SAP BPC NW powered by HANA 10.0 SP13
Any idea?
Thanks in advance
Vale

Have you tested with 3 level dummy members? Please read also this discussion:
Re: Time and Measure Dimension Conflict
Vadim

Time dimension member selection via MDX

Hello everybody.
I'm working with SAP BW via XMLA-interface and select members of standard dimension with select expressions like this one:
SELECT [GPTU_CA].Members DIMENSION PROPERTIES [GPTU_CA].[2CA_NAM], [GPTU_CA].[1CA_INN] ON 0 FROM [$GPTU_CA]
where GPTU_CA is dimension.
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Problem solved. The method getMemberData() is what ia needed.

How to build dynamic time series for the time dimension

I am planning to build dynamic time series using rule file instead of manually.Please let me know if there is any property need to assign to enable DTS property for TIME dimension.
Edited by: 844104 on Mar 14, 2011 3:37 AM

In the load rule in the dimension build settings you would need to go to the tab dimension definition, choose the time dimension and right click on it. Select Edit properties. If you have not done so, set the dimension to be the time dimension. Then go to the generations/levels tab and set the generation names you need. For example if you want YTD, you would set the generation name to Year, if you want QTD set it to Quarter. You would set the number to the generation number that coorisponds to the generation. The DBAG has the list of names for all of the DTS members.

Dynamic Time Dimension

Hi,
I've a problem during the set up of the Time Dimension of my Planning Application.
The structure of this dimension is the following:
Year
Months (grouped in 4 different quartes)
Days (grouped in different weeks per month).
My purpose is in having a dynamic dimension time which cross year dimension and update
days and weeks in relation to the year.
Can anyone help me?

It's been quite awhile since i personally created a planning app. but from what I remember, I believe there were essentially 3 options.
I believe there was a 52 week option, and a monthly app, and also a custom. (I dont remember there being a 'day' selection, someone please correct me if i am wrong).
Create an app with a custom # of periods, and enter 366 (includes leap years)
Your periods are going to be numbered P01-P365. So you will have to rename these.
Go ahead and then add the structure you want (in weeks, months and quarters), by adding members via planning web, You wont be able to move the level 0 members, so you have to create the upper level members and group them manually by specifying what time periods encompass each week/month/quarter.
Its a lot of manual work up front. I could be mistaken in the options which create days/weeks/months/quarters rollup, because its been awhile but even if that doesn;t exist just create a custom time dimension and put the structure around the level 0 members which it creates for you.
keep in mind that with a time dimension 366/367 members large, your block size is going to be massive, and will slow down performance.

How can I modify Time dimension to create a Top member above year members ?

Hi experts,
I would like to modify Time dimension to add a Top member above year members.
I already did a test:
I added a member in Time dimension which is the parent of all year members. I granted it these property values:
- ID = TOTAL
- EVDESCRIPTION = Total
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- HLEVEL = 1 (and I added 1 to all the other members)
- TIMEID = 10000001
All other properties were left blank for this member.
I processed the dimension. It went well. But when I tried an evdre in BPC excel it failed.
Any idea of something missing ?
I am working on SAP BPC MS 7 SP4
Thanks for your help
Ludovic

Hi Petar,
Thanks for your answer. No doubt that we could solve the issue using on of the way you suggested.
However, even though I had the evdre issue right after applying time dimension modifications, it occurs that the evdre issue was not due to time dimension modifications. I tested it better and I can tell that using "total" as a level works.
Best regards,
Ludovic

Time Dimension in Dynamic Reporting

When creating a report that compares a current period (for example 2015.FEB) to the same period in the prior year (2014.FEB), what is the best logic to use in a report? Do I use a local member formula to perform this? I am willing to build in a property within the Time Dimension table if necessary.
I will probably have the same need to compare current period (2015.FEB) to prior period (2015.JAN) in the same report.
The average user isn't very knowledgeable working with reports besides picking from the context drop down so it needs to be where they pick the current month (2015.FEB) and the report does the rest.
***It should also be noted that we recently switched from a calendar year to fiscal year so it will not work to reference for example Period 2 in each year since 2014.FEB is period 2 and 2015.FEB is period 11 in each year respectively.
Thanks for the help.
Steve

Shrikant,
See attached 4 screenshots of all of the properties that I have in the time dimension.
We only have one hierarchy for time. As you can see its a little complex going from a calendar year reporting structure to a fiscal reporting structure. 2014 was a "short" year because of the change.
Thanks in advance,
Steve

Having issues when creating alternate hierarchy in time dimension

Hi Everyone
I used How to guide of MS version 7.5 to build 2 hierarchies in time dimension.
It worked in MS version.7.5
But when i copied the same dimension members to NW version the alternate hierarchy (parenth2) doesn't work.
I mentioned all the required properties for both roll ups (like parenth2,timeid,usertimeid,ISBEGINNING).
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thanks
reddy

"This sounds confusing to me as to how a stored hierarchy can contain a shared member from a dynamic hierarchy"
You just need to understand how things are stored in ASO for this to make sense.
A level 0 member with no formula, even though it is in a dynamic hierarchy is still a stored member.
-- All level 0 members that do not have formulas are stored in ASO.
Upper level members are all "dynamically calculated".
-- Upper level members of dynamic hierarchies are pure dynamic.
-- Upper level members of stored hierarchies are candidates to have their values pre-aggregated and stored in a view.

MDX query performance on ASO cube with dynamic members

We have an ASO cube and we are using MDX queries to extract data from that cube. We are doing some performance testing on the MDX data extract.
Recently we made around 15-20 account dimension members dynamic in the ASO cube, and it is taking around 1 and a half hour for the query to run on an empty cube. Earlier the query was running in 1 minute on the empty cube when there were no dynamic members in the cube.
Am not clear why it takes so much time to extract data from MDX on an empty cube when there is nothing to extract. The performance has also degraded while extracting data on the cube with data in it.
Does dynamic members in the outline affect the MDX performance? Is there a way to exclude dynamic members from the MDX extract?
I appreciate any insights on this issue.

I guess it depends on what the formulas of those members in the dynamic hierarchy are doing.
As an extreme example, I can write a member formula to count every unique member combination in the cube and assign it to multiple members, regardless if I have any data in the database or not, that function is going to resolve itself when you query it and it is going to take a lot of time. You are probably somewhere in between there and a simple function that doesn't require any over head. So without seeing the MDX it is hard to say what about it might be causing an issue.
As far as excluding members there are various function in MDX to narrow down the set you are querying
Filter(), Contains(), Except(), Is(), Subset(), UDA(), etc.
Keep in mind you did not make members dynamic, you made a hierarchy dynamic, that is not the same thing and it does impact the way Essbase internally optimizes the database based on Stored vs dynamic hierarchies. So that alone can have an impact as well.

Time Dimension as Sparse

Hi All
Thought I would ask for some feedback on a change i am checking on.
Currently have a cube with Accounts and Time set as dense. But this creates a block size of around 400k.
I have created a test app and changed time dim to sparse and the block size has dropped to around 40k. Its a very new cube so there arent a lot of calculations currently written for it.
My test calc ran for 3 hours on the cube prior to changing the Time dimension and after changing the Time dimension to sparse, now completes in 12 seconds. The aggregated numbers look good.
What are the Cons to implementing Time as sparse?
Simon

You didn't state if you planned on using DTS for your time dimension. If so, the dynamic members would need to grab multiple blocks in order to calculate your QTD or YTD members. It's not a huge deal if your hardware is up to the task, but the users may experience a little slowness when pulling those members. If you are not using DTS, don't flag the time dimension as "Time" at all because that will affect how the default calc will work (Accounts, Time, Dense members, Sparse members). Most people don't use the default calc anyways, but if you're not using DTS, there is no reason to flag the time dim as "Time".

Clear data in ASO - Dynamic Members

Folks,
I've been trying to clear partial data in my ASO cube but encountered this error -
ERROR 1013358 - Dynamic members are not allowed in data clear region specification
There are few dimensions which are tagged as Dynamic and few members have formulas on them. Is it possible to exclude those members in the Maxl script or any better way of doing it?
I read a post where Glenn mentioned he used an exclude clause but I'm not familiar with the usage.
Thank you!
gugler

Why do you want to clear dynamic members? Clear out the members that you dynamic member is based off.

Setup time dimension in some different fiscal calendars

I have the different fiscal calendars.
Then, I wanna compare the current month fiscal amount and the previous month fiscal amount with AGO function.
The calendars are like below.
Calendar A : fiscal month start April
Calendar B : fiscal month start January
In this case, how should I define the chronological key in the time dimension?
For example, I try the below setup in the calendar period hierarchy.
Year 2008
Half 1H 2H
Quarter 1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q
Month 1Q = {Apr-08 in CAL_A, May-08 in CAL_A, Jul-08 in CAL_A, Jan-08 in CAL_B, Feb-08 in CAL_B, Mar-08 in CAL_B}
and some.
In this examle, the number of MONTH level members are 24.
Then I make a column for sort.
The sort number is below.
For CAL_A
Month SortNo.
Apr-08 1
May-08 2
Jun-08 3
Jul-08 4
Aug-08 5
Sep-08 6
Oct-08 7
Nor-08 8
Dec-08 9
Jan-09 10
Feb-09 11
Mar-09 12
For CAL_B
Month SortNo.
Jan-09 13
Feb-09 14
Mar-09 15
Apr-08 16
May-08 17
Jun-08 18
Jul-08 19
Aug-08 20
Sep-08 21
Oct-08 22
Nor-08 23
Dec-08 24
In this case, if I try to get the previous month of Jan-09 in CAL_B with AGO function, the system get Mar-09 for CAL_A. Because the record of Mar-09 for CAL_A is 12 in SortNo. column.
As far as possible, I wanna use AGO function.
Does anyone have good ider for this problem?
Edited by: user3532462 on 2008/08/28 2:57

Hi,
I guess it's easier to setup two different time dimensions; one for calendar A and one for calendar B. Use aliases in the Physical Layer.
Good Luck,
Daan Bakboord

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