How to Print aliases in the report

Question

Hi,
I have a scenario where i need to print the alias names for one dimension and member names for the other, Here I am trying to generate a level 0 extract with the help of report script.
when i specify the function {OUTALTNAMES} for printing the aliases for that particular dimension. it prints the aliases for all the dimensions specified in the report script. here is my report script
<ROW (Time, Employee, JobCodes, Products, Branch, Accounts)
{NOINDENTGEN}
{SUPPAGEHEADING}
//{SUPCOLHEADING}
{SUPMISSINGROWS}
{SUPCOMMAS}
//{SUPZEROROWS}
{SUPBRACKETS}
{TABDELIMIT}
{ROWREPEAT}
//{MISSINGTEXT "#MI"}
{DECIMAL VARIABLE}
<SYM
<SUPSHARE
//"STRAT_LOAD"
//{OUTMBRNAMES}
"2007 - JAN"
//{OUTMBRNAMES}
<LINK (<LEV("Employee",0) )
//{OUTMBRNAMES}
<LINK (<LEV("JobCodes",0) )
//{OUTMBRNAMES}
<LINK (<LEV("Products",0) )
{ OUTALTNAMES }
<LINK (<LEV("Branch",0) )
"Actual_Units"
"Actual_$"
"Points_Units"
"Points_$"
Above i need to print the alias name of all the branches and the member names for employees,jobcodes and products. some how the outaltnames is not working. pls advice
Thnx

Answer 1

Hi,
this is a bug. It seems that once you select {OUTALTNAMES} you can't go back to {OUTMBRNAMES}.
The workaround I have used is to incorporate using the <OUTALTSELECT "Alias table name". This allows you to select from more than 1 alias table. So where I need to use the member name, I select an alias table that has no aliases defined for that dimension.
To incorporate this workaround, define {OUTALTNAMES} at the top (or even above each dimension), then put the <OUTALTSELECT "Alias Table Name" above the dimension in the script.
Robert