Essbase Date Measures in OBIEE

Dose Essbase Date Measures supported by OBIEE. Can we have a Essbase Date Measures display as a DATE in OBIEE?
Thanks

Hi Nilaksha,
I thought you might say that, I think this is because Essbase doesn't use data types as such, all data is stored as a value and characteristics of that data or how it is treated are more like meta data. This certainly rings true for the time dimensions I have seen. I think your best bet is to look at how you can format the numbers in the columns to make them appear in the format you require.
Regards
Ed

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Essbase Date Measures as DATE in OBIEE

Hi,
We have created an ASO Cube in Essbase 11.1.1 with a Date Measure member call "Maturity Date" in Measure dimension (Tagged as Accounts).
Once we create the Physical layer Administrator tool on OBIEE this member refers as a double data type. And also when we create a criteria on Answers and displays the result it is shown as a number.
But on excel (with essbase add-on) data shows as a date. (Ex: 2009-09-20)
Can anyone tell what has to be changed to display a Date Measures as Date type on OBIEE or suggest another alternate.
Thanks!
Nilaksha.

Hi Nilaksha,
I thought you might say that, I think this is because Essbase doesn't use data types as such, all data is stored as a value and characteristics of that data or how it is treated are more like meta data. This certainly rings true for the time dimensions I have seen. I think your best bet is to look at how you can format the numbers in the columns to make them appear in the format you require.
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Ed

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I am looking for documentation/link for how to configure Essbase data source in OBIEE 11g on UNIX system.
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First You need "BI Administrator Client Tool" cause you need to make changes with in RPD (repository) BUT "BI Administrator Client Tool" for Unix is not Available.
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Hi All,
I am facing a problem in OBIEE as I am getting error messages for measure columns with Time series functions(Ago,ToDate and PeriodRolling) in both RPD and Answers.
Error is "Target database does not support Ago operation".
But I am aware of OBIEE supports Time Series functions for Essbase data source.
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is because the time series function are not supported for the framentation content, see the content of the oracle support:
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2. What is the impact if I remove it from the physical layer? (Note: I tried this, so far no error, but not sure if later on I will encounter error because of this)There shudn't be any future problem incase you wanna delete it during developemet BUT think of a situation during Incremental Essbase Cube Import to OBIEE which was not possible in 10g (straight Forwardly).
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I have an essbase cube integration with OBIEE. Now, I have dates as measure in Essbase. When I fetch those dates in OBIEE, they appear to be in numeric format. How to show those dates as date format? Any idea?
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