EVDESCRIPTION from BPC OLAP Connection

Hello All
We have an OLAP connection to IDT in BI4 for BPC MS 7.5
We had a problem getting the EVDESCRIPTION variable to show when creating WEBI reports so we created a measure for the account Dimension, which works a treat.
<EXPRESSION>[Account].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("EVDESCRIPTION")<EXPRESSION>
Although when we try to use the measure for a Hierachy dimension like our Legalentity dim which has three Hierarchies(H1,H2,H3) we get no results from the query in WEBI.
We did change the Syntax to read as follows
<EXPRESSION>[LegalEntity].[H1].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("EVDESCRIPTION")<EXPRESSION>
Although we get the desired results when running the query in SSAS we get a 0 when we use the measure in WEBI.
Hope some experts have an idea of what we can do the change our code or what we are doing wrong?
Thanks
Kind Regards
Perven

Hello
We have got passed this issue by creating it as a measure and using it in the query for the dimension.
We created the measure with the expression "[dim].currentmember.properties("EVDESCRIPTION")".
Works perfectly.
Hope this helps.
Regards
Perven

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