Financial Reporting Studio: Query returns number instead of text !?

Hi All,
I have built a CAPEX report for a client querying new asset requests. Report is completed with no errors, however the problem is that the values returned for members of type text such as 'Asset Description', 'Justification'...etc are numbers (ex: 6, 9, 12). On the other hand, values returned for memebrs of type number are returned correctly such as 'Basic Cost' and 'Salvage value'. Even the value returned for 'CAR #' which stored as a text is a 1 digit number.
I have checked the data in the front end/application and it is there and represented correctly. I have also checked the type of the dimension members themself and it is set as text.
Has anyone come accross this problem? Can anyone please provide a solution for this?
Your help is highly appreciated.
Regards,
Mokhtar
Edited by: user10583002 on Jun 25, 2012 1:44 PM

Hi Mokhtar
Is it a big report as that seems a long time?
In my experience the things that have made the most difference to report performance are:
1. Don't have a lot of members in the Page, in order to be able to switch pages quickly all of the data is retrieved at run time so it can take a long time to open the report. I prefer to use the report POV to switch the view
2. Try not to stack dynamic calcs, e.g. be careful if you are using attribute dimensions in reports as these are dynamic and if used along with dynamic accounts, and dynamic time periods can slow retrieval
Hope this helps
Stuart

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