External Hierarchies

Guys,
Can someone tell me what people mean when they says "loading external hierarchies"? An example would be perfect.
Thanks,
RG

Hi Ram,
BW allows you to determine multiple external hierarchies for a characteristic. External hierarchies can be used for characteristics in the dimension tables and for activated navigational attributes for query navigation.
Example:
Consider a simple external hierarchy for the characteristic country. Country is a member of the customer dimension table but it could instead, or additionally, be a navigational attribute in the customer master data table. The nodes are of a textual nature. If continent was an InfoObject of type characteristic we could use this InfoObject to define the nodes using its characteristic values like Europe
Regards,
Lakshman Kumar Ghattamaneni

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I'm just wondering if there is a way of bringing BW/BI Hierarchies into Microstrategy reporting.
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Can some one let me know
1. When should we use hierarchies, pls. explain with a scenario ?
2. What is the concept behind hierarchies ?
3. How to create a hierarchy - step by step ?
4. Are there any varieties in hierarchy ?
5. what are the components of hierarchy ?
KINDLY NOTE: Pls. dont give me any links to any forums or any std. docs.
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Hierarchies in general are essential structures for
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sequence of parent-child relationships, obviously
involves hierarchies. But as the real world is sometimes
irregular, so are hierarchies. In BW there are essentially three possibilities for modeling hierarchies:
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 as a hierarchy of attributes attached to a characteristic
 as an external hierarchy
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A typical example of a hierarchy of this type is a time
hierarchy with levels such as millenium century
decade year month day hour etc. Another typical
example is a geographic hierarchy with levels such as
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Hierarchies within a master data table of a characteristic
This case is very similar to the one discussed in section
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realignment facilities) that comes with navigational
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number of levels. However, changes to that hierarchy
(i.e. changes to attribute values) can be easily applied
to facts that are already loaded into a cube.
A typical example is the hierarchy of sales office
sales group sales person. This hierarchy has a fixed
number of levels but is frequently reorganized.
In terms of performance, this is the least attractive of the hierarchy modeling techniques.
External Hierarchies
This is the ideal type if a hierarchy
 frequently changes
 has no fixed number of levels (sometimes referred to as a "ragged" or unbalanced hierarchy).
A typical example is a cost center hierarchy in which
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which itself belong to another cost center and so on.
Such a hierarchy has no fixed number of levels as cost
centers usually correspond to departments or groups
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HAve you tried to map this hierarchy to attributes of Org Structure?
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Hi Sabine,
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