Essbase UDAs with Financial Reporting

Hi All,
I am suggesting client to use Reports with Essbase and the application is built with extensive use of UDAs. My question was whether Reports can be easily designed using UDAs on Financial Reporting.
THanx in Advance
Cheers

Yes, Financial Reports can be designed around UDAs:
Under the Select members dialog Window, Click the Function tab, then add the Property function, here is where you select UDA.
For example, we use the following to restrict members: Children of Sales Group AND UDA = Group_B
We use more substitution variables in reports than UDAs, is there are particular problem you are looking to solve?

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