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Hi, I'm a long time BO user who is new to SAP integration, and I'm having some conceptual problems. Thius is in the area of timesheet management, if that makes a difference.
Given that I am basing my universe on a query that returns the following weeks and hours ...
12.2011     22.5
14.2011     42.5
15.2011     116
16.2011     62.5
17.2011     44.5
18.2011     7.5
19.2011     79
20.2011     37.5
21.2011     7.5
23.2011     47.5
... I assumed that the expression:
<EXPRESSION>([Measures].[4MJ6PVVXJKN124Y7VXIOETTA9],[0CALWEEK].prevmember)</EXPRESSION>
Would return a value of 47.5. However, it returns 0.0. Can anyone help me understand why?

I think that in the context of the business environment that would be an acceptable compromise -- as we have 6,000 people who are supposed to enter time every day we could probably rely on the maximum week in the cube representing the current one. The disadvantage of the method you suggest would be that we'd require one query, and hence one universe, for each of the following required situations: Unconstrained, "Last Month", "Last Week", "Last Six Weeks", and any others that are dreamed up.
So for the expression:
<EXPRESSION>(Measures.4MJ6PVVXJKN124Y7VXIOETTA9,0CALWEEK.lastsibling)</EXPRESSION>
Should that be returning the metric value for the highest member of 0CALWEEK? (I may be fuzzy on terminology here).
If the cube contains weeks up to 25.2011 query on which the universe is based contained a filter to limit the weeks to be returned to, for example, 21.2011, 22.2011, and 23.2011, then would the expression return the metric value for 23.2011?
If there was no value for the metric for 23.2011 then would it return 0?
Thanks for your patience.

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