Essbase alias table problem

Hi,
I have a problem while importing a new alias table. I have a Time Dimension which has a child 200901, and which has qtr1,...qtr4, and each qtr has months, and months have dates(stored hierarchy)
like 20090101..so on,
and Time Dim has another child that is week, ,
weeks have childs as dates,(the dates here are shared members)
when i am trying to load new set of alias its getting properly loaded for stored members ,but not getting loaded for shared members.
could anyone sort out what the problem is?
Thanks,
Ram
Edited by: user8774295 on Sep 6, 2009 11:19 PM

HI Ram,
If your outline read like this
Time
     200901
          qtr1.
               20090101( alias: sample_alias)
          qtr2.
     week
          20090101( shared , alias : sample_alias)
Its possible, and I have tried at my end . The same alias would work for the shared member too.
It would actually not work with anyother stored member ,as the same alias name has been used already
Sandeep Reddy Enti
HCC
http://hyperionconsultancy.com/

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