OLAP Universe and Voyager connection on BW Queries

Hi,
I have successfully created an OLAP Universe and Voyager Connections pointing to SAP BW Cubes. I want to do the same connecting to the SAP BW Queries. But when i get connected to the SAP BW system, I get a dispaly of just the Cubes and I am not able to see any Queries. We have created multiple queries in BW pointing the Cubes. But none of them are listed down.
Please let me know if this is an issue with the rights given to user which we use for logging into SAP system or some other reason.
Any suggestions and answers will be really helpful.
Thanks,
Suma

Hi Suma,
Please check if you have released the BW query for OLE DB for OLAP. Goto properties of the Query and on the Advanced tab see if the check box for "Allow External Access to this Query" is checked or not. If it is not checked then please check that box for the query to appear in your Universe Designer.
Regards,
Srikalyan

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