Essbase aliases used in OBIEE

Reporting against Essbase, I noticed that dimension level "aliases" as defined in Essbase are brought over to OBIEE (and not the original non-alias values). Apart from removing aliases within your Essbases layout, is there a setting or option somewhere in OBIEE that would allow you to import the original value (and not the alias)?

Nope. The rule is: if there's an Alias, the alias comes over if there isn't, the original values. You can't influence this.
Cheers,
C.

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