Non standard members of Time dimension

Colleagues,
I have created a Time Dimension which consists of 16 periods instead of normal 12 periods in a year.
When I attach YYYY.P13,YYYY.P14,YYYY.P15,YYYY.P16 to YYYY.TOTAL and send data for the respective periods, the input schedule saves successfully. However, on refreshing the schedule doesnt show any value ofr YYYY.P16 and YYYY.TOTAL figures doesnt seem to include the same. However, when I checked in BW; I did find values sent for YYYY.P16.
Regards,
Shrini

Hello Shrini,
Can you post a screenshot of what your time dimension looks like with these? (With all the properties if possible)
My guess is the properties may be incorrect or the hierarchy may be off a little bit.
It should be something like (using 2014 for example:
ID
BASE_PERIOD
LEVEL
PERIOD
YEAR
TIMEID
PARENTH1
2014.P01
001
MONTH
P01
2014
20140100
2014.TOTAL
2014.P02
002
MONTH
P02
2014
20140200
2014.TOTAL
2014.P03
003
MONTH
P03
2014
20140300
2014.TOTAL
2014.P04
004
MONTH
P04
2014
20140400
2014.TOTAL
2014.P05
005
MONTH
P05
2014
20140500
2014.TOTAL
2014.P06
006
MONTH
P06
2014
20140600
2014.TOTAL
2014.P07
007
MONTH
P07
2014
20140700
2014.TOTAL
2014.P08
008
MONTH
P08
2014
20140800
2014.TOTAL
2014.P09
009
MONTH
P09
2014
20140900
2014.TOTAL
2014.P10
010
MONTH
P10
2014
20141000
2014.TOTAL
2014.P11
011
MONTH
P11
2014
20141100
2014.TOTAL
2014.P12
012
MONTH
P12
2014
20141200
2014.TOTAL
2014.P13
013
MONTH
P13
2014
20141300
2014.TOTAL
2014.P14
014
MONTH
P14
2014
20141400
2014.TOTAL
2014.P15
015
MONTH
P15
2014
20141500
2014.TOTAL
2014.P16
016
MONTH
P16
2014
20141600
2014.TOTAL
2014.TOTAL
012
YEAR
TOTAL
2014
20140001
Check your Time dimension properties, if it isn't that, then I'm not sure. I'm guessing something is different for your Period 16 and your Total properties and that is why it's not displaying correctly on your report.
Thanks,
Alexander

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