Members in Essbase outline but not Planning outline

We currently use Planning v3.5 and Esssbase v6.5.5 We want to add a member only to Essbase. It would not exist in Planning. Here are the specifics: We have a 3 generation outline and want to insert a member between generation 2 & 3 only in Essbase. The result would be that Essbase would have a 4 generation outline and Planning would have a 3 generation outline. We've tested this and done a refresh with no problem. Do you know of any problems with this approach? Also, we plan on upgrading to version 4.x in the near future. Would this be a problem if we upgraded? Ex. Current Outline: CONS_GAAP 00004 00004DIST 00004TRANS Essbase outline after change: CONS_GAAP 00004 00004TOT - add this member only in Essbase 00004DIST 00004TRANS Planning outline after change: CONS_GAAP 00004 00004DIST 00004TRANS

Okay two things if 00004TOT is going to be a parent to 00004DIST/TRANS in Essbase, then absolutely not. If 00004TOT is going to be on the same level as 00004DIST/TRANS (in other words also a level 0 member) then in theory you could do it, but it would not be considered best practice or a supported solution. The problem is when you refresh planning you would run the risk of losing the member, having the database corupt, etc.. If this was somehting you really wanted to do, you would have to thinking it through and build a lot of preocedures around it, so that after every Planning refresh an Essbase dim build would kick in and add the memebr, then relaod your data, yada, yada, yada. You really don't want to go down this road. Either add the member in Planning or let the users do the math in Excel/Report writer. Don't forget Planning does support alternate rollups with shared members. So you can create an alternate roll up with 00004DIST and 00004TRANS as shared members that roll up into 00004TOT. That would be the supported/best practice solution to your problem. HTH

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