Metadata management for OLAP Universes

Hi,
How to manage the metadata management in universe?
Our project requirment is to maintain the Business Defination of Object(not the technical Information which automatically comes when connection is defined while designing), As of Now we have suggested to the client that we will manually include the Defination of each field/objects or class in the Description field of properties of Object while designing the universe in designer.
But this solution seems to be very time consuming and difficult to maintain (Having too many objects in Universe which is designed on SAP BW Query will consume lot of time for Developer and also to maintainance will also be a problem.)
Can any one suggest the way to incorporate the Business Defination of Objects in Universe?

Hi,
We have a product called Metadata Manager that keeps information of universes along the lifecycle of BI system.
By the way, when you genererate a universe on top of SAP BW data source, this universe contains hidden attributes per class / object / measure / filter.
Those attributes contain:
<ul><li>Unique name
<li>Unique definition
<li>Last update date
</ul>Those attributes are accessible (read/write) through Universe Designer SDK.
Didier

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Edited by: ramaks on Dec 11, 2009 11:02 PM

Hi,
Here is the list of feature we have added in SP2 for OLAP universes:
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2) Create a restriction for the object in the where clause:
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Any inputs are highly appreciated.
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Vivek.

Hi Ingo,
Thank you for the information. I will try doing that in the SAP BEx query end. However, I found some examples with the MDX which can filter the members based on their levels. One specific example of referring to a member is as follows:
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/people/erika.atencio2/blog/2011/04/14/creating-hyperlinks-between-webi-reports-in-infoview
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Hi Didier,
Thank you for your response. That was exactly my original design - but it has performance implications for us. Please see an earlier thread of mine.
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