OBIEE 10G - Repository Documentation

Hi all,
When I am generating RPD Documentation for my OBIEE 10G RPD, there are few presentation columns for which there are no physical columns.
These measures are not calculated columns, and when I check the relevant physical columns it directs to correct physical tables and columns.
Since my RPD is very large i tried removing other subject areas as well but still not help..
Any help would be appreciated.
thanks

There might be few columns in BMM with expression as '' or any these may not have direct physical sources. Other than these I dont think any case for that. can you double check by opening document file in Excel?
PS: Update your display name with name

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HI,
Just you can drag and drop the columns from physical layer to BMM layer.
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I've tried to search in the forum for problems similar to this one but didn't find any thread that answered my doubts.
I'll try to explain this well (without images it's complicated). Let's assume we have a schema with the following tables:
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Hi,
Follow these steps,
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Edited by: user10615659 on May 23, 2013 11:22 AM
Edited by: user10615659 on May 23, 2013 12:26 PM

Compound layout in View selector possible in OBIEE 10g but not in OBIEE 11

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