ESSBASE and relational Integration in OBIEE

Hi,
Currently I am trying to do ESSBASE and Relation DB integration in OBIEE. Is it possible to join a dimension of essbase to another dimension in relational table. E.g I have name of a person in Essbase, Can I get his attributes like phone number from the dimension in Relational table. I have proper join condition among these dimensions. If possible how to do that.
Thanks in advance for the help.
Many Thanks
RS

Hi,
Thanks a lot for the help.
I am currently facing following issues in integration.
1. In my Essbase outline , the child level has some aliases. So when I import in OBIEE, I am getting the alias value instead of the actual. How to get the actual data in OBIEE?
2. If I am using external data for only one dimension, I am getting the report generated,but all the measures like sales returns no value. But If I am using the sales and some existing cube dimension column, I am getting the values
3. Inorder to use the other dimension, I followed the creation of total level and added the dummy fact. Still I am getting error 'Unable to navigate requested expression'
Thanks in advance,
Many Thanks,
RS

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