EVDRE Measures Dimension Issue

Greetings,
Currently using Version 5.0.502. We are encountering an issue with EVDRE reports when the Measures dimension is included in the ColKeyRange. When Measures is included in the ColKeyRange, the EVDRE report will not retrive any values. When Measures is not included in the ColKeyRange, the EVDRE report will retrive values. Any ideas would be appreciated!
Regards,
GReg Lakin

Version 5.0.502 is BPC 5.1 SP3. There are several service packs following this release that you could take advantage of, or you should consider upgrading to the latest version 7.0 SP. The process, while appears to be a big step and does have many variables would be a recommended path, sinc the current version of 5 is coming off of SAP maintenance at the end of this month. SAP will take calls and support, but no additional changes will be built for version 5.1.

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-------------------- Query Status: Query Failed: Essbase Error: Unknown Member Scenario.Sales used in query
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Likewise with the two logical tables, he screws the query up completely and doens't even manage to resolve the column mappung against the logocal tables.
Has anyone ever tried to mix measure dimensions retrieved from Essbase? Using OBI EE it's very tricky to define the acutal measure containing data points in Essbase.
Cheers,
C.
Edited by: Christian Berg on Nov 10, 2008 2:58 PM
Edited by: Christian Berg on Nov 10, 2008 3:00 PM
Sorry for the reformatting...the forum doesn't like the square brackets in the BI server logs...

Solved. Takes some nibbling around in Answers, but doable with unioning and pivot tables.
Cheers,
C.

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Thnnks in advance,

Hi Swapna,
The rules for merged dimesions are that must match exactly i.e Same data type, same syntax etc.
One can avoid some of these issues if you use a common dimension table in the universe and both queries use this same dimesion.
To to a test on where you issue is, drag the dimensions in a report one-by-one and see which one is causing a duplicate. Sometimes dimensions can also have spaces i.e when one is of a data type varchar, and the other of char... here you can use the trim function in the report to eliminate any leading or trailing spaces.
Hope this helps
Jacques

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