Horizontal Federation of relational and Essbase source in OBIEE 11g

Hi,
I have created physical, business model and presentation layer for Essbase and relational sources. Works OK.
Now I need to create business model which is horizontal federation of these both sources. I need to have measures from Essbase and relational sources in one logical table.
Let's say that relational source has physical table MyFacts with columns MyValues NUMBER (measure) and D_Product_ID NUMBER(relation to dimension) and table D_PRODUCT with columns ID NUMBER, NAME VARCHAR2
Essbase cube has measure EbValues with dimension EbDimProduct
After import I've converted measure dimension into flat measures.
What requirements are for building hybrid federation?
How Essbase/relational dimensions should be built. How to create logical table with measures MyValues and EbValues? Should I build relations between relational and essbase tables in Physical layer?
Any link to example of horizontal federation will be appreciated :)
Regards,
Tatatoshi

Hi,
I hope this is what you are looking for. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-enterprise-edition/overview/obiee-essbase-modeling-guide-130897.pdf
Hope this helps.
Thank you,
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