Excel Addin - Attribute dimension values

Hi all, I have an excel report which pulls data for our departments. Eachdepartment has a manager and the manager for the department istagged using attribute dimension. Now I want to get data for alldepartments and in second column along with it the name of themanager (i.e. the attribute dimension member name). I somehowcannot figure out a way to do this again. Any inputs into how this can be done?

Robert, Thanks for the suggestion.Our analysts already have the report templates setup which theyuse for retrival. I am not sure if they want to do something likethat. Sometimes there might not be data in the department forthat period and then that department would be suppressed but it isneeded in the report at times.I am guessing that I might have to do some VBA stuff in thereport to allow the analysts to have this. I was just hoping to seeif someone else has found a better way to do this. I say bettersince I was looking for some that the analysts might be able to doeasily but themselves.

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we have when I try to retrieve historical data from
the cube in the Excel since there is "BaseTimePeriod"
dimension before, the Excel report layout gets
affected and inserts a new row placing
"BaseTimePeriod" in that cell since this not yet
there before. And when I try to upload data through
Excel Add-in "lock/send" action, it did allow me
unless I put a member from the "BaseTimePeriod" to
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Edited by: user4592285 on 2012-10-18 上午6:48

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http://otn.oracle.com/obe/start/index.html
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http://otn.oracle.com/bibeans/903/help/
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