MDX select dimension member by name

Hi, I run this query no problem in SSMS.
select [Measures].[Promo sold value] on columns
, [Promotions].[Promotion].&[1922] on rows
from [Rmis]
But I got nothing when I replace the key 1922 with the name of the member :
select [Measures].[Promo sold value] on columns
, [Promotions].[Promotion].&[somename] on rows
from [Rmis]
What's the correct way to do this?

you need to use STRTOSET function for that
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Hi AL_T,
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Hi,
I'm working on an input schedule which has fixed rows and column structure.
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Hi,
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I am connecting a cube to another reporting system and i need to show the id of member resulting of a query.My first thought was to use this kind of code (bellow) however when i do the same thing with many dimension (many cross join ),it slow down a lot
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In your query, you use CrossJoin in it. Crossjoin function will cause the performance issue if there are a lot of properties that need to be displayed. If you cross-join medium-sized or large-sized sets (e.g., sets that contain more than 100 items each),
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Need to change dimension member in context based on the member property

Hi,
When i select the one particular entity i.e. E_1100 , it having the currency property is INR, this currency has to change the RPTCURRENCY dimension member i.e. INR. in the context member.
Context is locked for the users.
for example:
In context i have Entity dimension, RPTcurrency dimension
E_1100 INR.
In report user having the select parameter for the Entity Dimension. Now he has selected the E_1200 in the report , but it has currency property is USD
now the RPT Currency dimension should have to display the USD in the Context.
Please anybody help me.
Regards.
Surya

Hi Surya,
you can achieve this using simple VBA code. Use below vba code for overriding the context member. assign this code to button. it will change the context member.
Copy paste below code in one module and assign this code to the button.
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Dim CONNE As String
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epm.RefreshActiveWorkBook
End Sub
where CURRENCY==> use your dimension name whose context want to change
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How to further restrict the task profile 'dimension' to selected dimensions

Hi All,
We have a dimension which we require users to maintain their own master data. We have used the secondary admin task profile which provides default access to the task 'dimension'. THis allows that user access to the BPC Admin console and also to the dimension to maintain dimension members. However, we wish to limit their access to only certain defined dimensions & not give them access to all dimensions. I have tested using this task profile together with a member access profile to limit the secure dimensions for an application, however my understanding is that member access profiles will not restrict access once a user has logged into the BPC Admin Client...i.e the member access profile restricts the ability to read/write to 'facts'/sign data from a BPC front end tool, EG excel.
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Hi,
As you said for maintaining dimension members, you had to assign a task to the task profile. However, assigning this task will allow the user to modify any of the dimensions.
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The window to select dimensions simply does not appear and I can't move forward, due to variables exit in the report

Dear experts,
I am having an issue when I try to create a WEBI document using Bex query through OLAP connection (Bics).
Due to variables exit, it is not possible to open query pannel in webi to choose wich dimensions to add to the webi document.
The window to select dimensions simply does not appear and I can't move forward!
In RSRT ou Bex Analyzer, the query is running fine without errors.
CMOD code is like this (I believe there is not any error as it is working flawless on other reports for other variable names):
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*      wa2-low = |{ v_year_h }12|.
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*        wa1-low = wa2-low.
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         wa1-sign = 'I'.
         APPEND wa1 TO e_t_range.
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     IF i_step = 2.
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       IF sy-subrc EQ 0.
*        wa2-low = |{ v_year_h }12|.
         v_year_h = wa2-low(4) - 1.
         CONCATENATE v_year_h '12' INTO wa1-low.
         wa1-opt = 'EQ'.
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I solved it.
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André Oliveira

ORA-35563: Multiple values exist for an attribute of this dimension member

After following the tutorial Building OLAP Cubes I was trying to make a cube with aggregation down to the day instead of down to the month.
I created a times table pretty similar to the one used in the tutorial:
CREATE TABLE EVENT_TIMES (
        HOUR_KEY        DATE NOT NULL,
        DAY_ID          VARCHAR2(10),
        DAY_NAME        VARCHAR2(10),
        DAY_END_DATE    DATE,
        DAY_TIME_SPAN   NUMBER,
        MONTH_ID        VARCHAR2(30) NOT NULL,
        MONTH_NAME      VARCHAR2(40),
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        MONTH_TIME_SPAN NUMBER,
        YEAR_ID         VARCHAR2(30) NOT NULL,
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        YEAR_END_DATE   DATE,
        YEAR_TIME_SPAN NUMBER
As you can see, instead of a DAY_KEY like in the tutorial, I now use an HOUR_KEY.
This is a sample of the data I inserted in this table:
select to_char(hour_key,'YYYYMMDDHH24MISS'),DAY_ID,DAY_NAME,DAY_END_DATE,DAY_TIME_SPAN,MONTH_ID,MONTH_NAME,MONTH_END_DATE,MONTH_TIME_SPAN,YEAR_ID,YEAR_NAME,YEAR_END_DATE,YEAR_TIME_SPAN from event_times;
TO_CHAR(HOUR_KEY,'YYYYMMDDHH24MISS') DAY_ID     DAY_NAME   DAY_END_DATE DAY_TIME_SPAN MONTH_ID                       MONTH_NAME                               MONTH_END_DATE MONTH_TIME_SPAN YEAR_ID                        YEAR_NAME                                YEAR_END_DATE YEAR_TIME_SPAN
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20140104060000                       Y2014M1D4 Y2014M1D4 04-JAN-14                1 Y2014M1                        Y2014M1                                  31-JAN-14                   31 Y2014                          Y2014                                    31-DEC-14                365
I then created my TIME dimension with DAY as the lowest level.
When I try the maintain cube option it fails at the 'LOAD NO SYNCH' step with the rejected records having an error message that says:
ORA-35563: (XSRWLD17) Multiple values exist for an attribute of this dimension member.
To me, this is a very cryptic message and the only explanation I find online is:
Cause
Multiple source table rows containing different values for a dimension attribute were found. Only the first of the multiple rows has been loaded.
Action
Fix the mapping or remove the rows with conflicting attribute values..
This confuses me. In the tutorial the lowest level was day and the TIMES table contained 1 record for each day.
In my example, the lowest level is hour and the TIMES table contains 1 record for each hour.
Which attribute has multiple values? And which values?
The rejected records (101) are not very clear:
ALIAS_1 = 'MONTH_Y2014M1' AND ALIAS_3 = to_date('31JAN14') AND ALIAS_4 = 31 AND ALIAS_5 = 'Y2014M1' AND ALIAS_6 = 'Y2014M1' AND ALIAS_7 = 'YEAR_Y2014'
If anyone can help point me in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated.

I have seen this recently. The issue is with the dimension load itself. You have a hour level record table but the rules relating to hierarchy/attribute values etc are checked/reinforced during the load and this error comes up sometimes.
I would guess that the issue seems to be with your month level information present in the higher level month columns. There are many records corresponding to a single month in ur case, month of Y2014M1. Information relating to Month level member Jan 2014 or member MONTH_Y2014M1 is present in these records: 31 (days) *24 (hours) = 744 records. The data in these 744 records for columns - MONTH_ID, MONTH_NAME, MONTH_END_DATE, MONTH_TIME_SPAN need to be exactly the same in order for the single member MONTH_Y2014M1 to have month attributes loaded with valid values.
For e.g: if records #1 to #743 contain month_timespan=31 but for some unknown reason record #744 contains month_timespan=30 then this error will come up. OLAP does not know which value to load (31 or 30), and only 1 value can be loaded onto the month level member corresponding to month Y2014M1.
A quick check of the data should give you the answer. Typically there may be some mistake/invalid assumptions made with the boundary records (in your case, check for values for records corresponding to hour=0 or hour=23/24) which is causing the issue.
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When we query OLAP cubes via Excel Add-in by default for each dimension member we see the Long description. So example the for business unit we see the description - HEDGE_FUNDS instead of the member ID e.g. 13408 in this case.
We have option to display either Short or long description in report but there is no such option to select member_id instead of long description during querying.
So for example while querying we want to select Member ID and see Member ID's in dimension selection instead of Long description? Is anybody aware if this is a feature available in Excel addin. We are using version 10.1.2.3

You should load the member id as long description to display it. I dont think** there is any other way.
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