FX_METHOD in the Entity dimension?

Does anyone know what the FX_METHOD property is used for in the Entity dimension?
Is it required for certain applications?
I couldn't find any documentation on it, so I'm hoping someone can explain the usage of this property.
Thanks,
Michael

It may be used by the Legal Consolidation process, however, I have a sneaky suspision that you have a copy of the BPC Demo, where they had once placed several extra properties in the member sheet for purposes of building out the useable demo. I don't think it has a specific purpose in a standard reporting application, and most likely doesn't have a pupose in the Legal Consolidation process in BPC, but rather is part of one of our past designs.
Hope this helps.

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For EPMA then usually you would highlight your dimension, select the category of system in the properties window, update the dimension alias, click save, deploy.
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I’m working with Hyperion ESSBASE 11.1.1.3 and Hyperion Planning 11.1.1.3 and I have a problem related to create new users (without admin permissions) and assigning them security on the Entity dimension.
When I access with these users to a Dataform in Planning appears these message:
“Security and/or filtering has resulted in a required dimension not being represented on this data form”
I have followed these steps:
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Hi,
You will have to apply security to all the standard dimensions and not just entity, so that will be account, entity, scenario and version.
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John
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I have situation with a sales reporting application. Business rules have changed and any company can sell to any customer - this results in a problem with the fx stored in the entity dimension (currently Customer) as the companies have different currencies. I thought about adding a new entity dimension called Company (and calculating fx based on the company), and changing the existing Customer entity to be a user defined dimension.
Has anyone ever had to do anything like this before? This doesn't seem to be an easy change... I really don't want to rebuild the application and redo all security (neither of these dimensions are secured). Any ideas/thoughts would be very much appreciated.

I was able to figure out how to do this without rebuilding the application and redoing security. Steps are below in case anyone else runs into this problem:
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Hi,
I would really appreciate a solution to this. We are planning on implementing an IFRS consolidation using the SAP IFRS Starter Kit. We have created a copy of the IFRS Starter Kit, without any data. In order to customise it for our purposes, we have decided to keep the sample dimension members in Accounts, Flow and AuditID but delete the data in other dimensions. We have managed to delete the sample dimension members from the Time, Inter-company and Conoscope dimensions but are unable to do it for the Entity and RateEntity dimension.
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Before going into the BPFs, i am sure you would have already checked, I would do the following:
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- You would have done this. Double check for the transaction data.
- Regarding BPFs, its not easy to check this. we had this situation earlier. Please go into the backend and in se16 you will find all the BPF tables with UJB*
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Sreeni

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Morgan
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Gavin,
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Entity Dimension - Company Code + Profit Center

Dear experts,
I'm in a BPC project in NW, the project has two fronts, planning and consolidation, in specific I am with the initial concern of how to organize the dimensions, and is used by both sides.
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A
B     A
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Y     A
V     B
W    B
Z     B
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Alexandre

Alexandre,
I'm with the same doubt, do you get the answer ?
Please some one knows the answer ?
Best Regards

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By what tools I can dynamically build the Entity dimension in the Planning application, except ODI, DIM and EPMA?
Thanks.

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John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

Entity dimension error.

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Thank you,
Raju

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By taking with your points - Now I can able to see the dimension.
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Thanks as always,
yajepe

Hi,
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Error while processing ENTITY dimension

Hi Experts,
I am on BPC 7.5NW version.
I have 6 hierarchies defined for ENTITY dimension.
I have created the structure in an excel and now I am coping it into Entity dimension for each column one by one.
I copied ID, Description and PARENTH1 in ENTITY dimension and processed it. It worked fine.
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Regards,
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Hi Nilanjan,
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EMPORIOMALL     Emporio Mall     INDIAREG                              INR
TAJKRISHNA     Taj Krishna     INDIAREG                              INR
PALLADIUM     Palladium     INDIAREG                              INR
UBCITY     UB City     INDIAREG                              INR
BUREUROPWS     Burberry Europe Wholesale     L5WHOLE                              GBP
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MUKDIS     International Wholesale     BURUKWS                              GBP
MUKEUR     UK Europe Wholesale     BURUKWS                              GBP
MUKDFS     Duty Free Wholesale     BURUKWS                              GBP
MUKEM     Emerging Markets Wholesale     BURUKWS                              GBP
MUKSA     South America Wholesale     BURUKWS                              GBP
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Regards,
Rashmi

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Hi,
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Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

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