^ operator (Never Consolidate)

Hi All,
I'm using Hyperion Essbase 9.3.1.. I've used ^ (never consolidate) in some of my dimension members like rates so that they won't be added across dimensions. Am I right? It worked before. It just returned 0 for the totals which was my expected result. But now, I noticed that it wasn't working anymore. The rates add-up even after setting its consolidation operator to ^. I don't have any idea why. Does anyone know how to resolve this? Btw, its storage type is store only.
Thanks in advance.
Sam

sam wrote:
Hi All,
I'm using Hyperion Essbase 9.3.1.. I've used ^ (never consolidate) in some of my dimension members like rates so that they won't be added across dimensions. Am I right? It worked before. It just returned 0 for the totals which was my expected result. But now, I noticed that it wasn't working anymore. The rates add-up even after setting its consolidation operator to ^. I don't have any idea why. Does anyone know how to resolve this? Btw, its storage type is store only.
Thanks in advance.
SamHi Sam,
Please use tiled operation (~) to ignore the consolidation of a member.....after changed please reload the data and check..
Regards,
Prabhas

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I started by importing my iPhoto library. It's 10k pictures, many if
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"iPhoto Edited" ones. Unfortunately that operation never completed
after hours. I tried selecting just 3 of the images to unstack, and
that took 10 minutes. I tried 10 images at once and that never
completed after an hour. I had to Force Quit the application many
times.
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and then perform all your operations in that album. I gave that a
try. It took about 10 minutes to set up that album because of the
slowness of the system, but once in that album I found I was able to
unstack images much faster: still hundreds of times too slow, but
still much better. 2 hours later I had them all unstacked, and had
deleted the iPhoto Edited images.
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if that would help. No difference.
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imported when I imported my iPhoto library one directory at a time,
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bones and it's not going to get fixed soon. I hope I can get my money
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Consideration #1:
          It would seem that one way around this problem is to merge all 48 events. I will not do this since this function moves the events rather than copies them. Additionally, I’m not even sure if I have enough space to consolidate all 48 events anywhere available to me.
Consideration #2:
          This leaves only one other option which is to rename the source media files and relink all of them across all events.
Questions:
          1.          Why can’t FCP (internally) qualify the media file names that it imports with the event name? i.e why is it left up to the user to insure that all of the media file names are unique across all events used by a project?
          2.          If it doesn’t do #1, then why were we not warned of this before starting. I find out about this when I’m done with my project and trying to archive. Now it’s a huge task to rename and relink.
Thoughts:
          Regardless of whether there is work-around to this problem, the fact that FCP has a “feature” such as events and allows projects to use more than one event but does not manage them properly reveals a weakness and flaw. If such is the case, then it would be less painful, in this situation, to force a project to use only one event.
I wish that others would speak to this problem. Or let us know what the answer to this is.
Thanks.

Major issues with Google services on both my macs, not on XP machine

Hi,
Since a couple of weeks (latest OSX update?), I am having major problems publishing on my Blogger (Blogspot) blogs, accessing Gmail and even posting in Google's help forums. The worst behavior occurs in Blogspot: only (extremely!) rarely do posts publish at all. The behavior is not consistent:
Most times I can’t even log in to my Google / Blogger account (page ‘hangs on loading’) and/or use any Google related services, including (f.i.) Gmail, help forums et cetera.
Sometimes I can log in (yeehaw), but when I try to add a post and/or alter an existing one, I get the “Could not contact Blogger. Saving and publishing might fail. Retrying” (top of my head) message. Again and again and again. Additionaly, GMail is slow at best.
This behavior occurs on both my Macs (iMac and brand new MacBook), latest OS X (10.5.7) with every conceivable update installed. All other internet sites (including https, Wordpress et cetera) function flawlessly. Only Google – related pages seem affected.
I have tried resetting the (Sitecom) modem, restarting my AirportExtreme, flushing all caches (Leopard Cache Cleaner), ran every possible maintenance script I could think of, disabled the firewall and uninstalled PeerGuardian.
Additionally, I tried Firefox (both stable and beta releases), Safari (including 4), Opera (never able to even get to my account details) and even installed Internet Explorer through CrossOver. Still: no dice. I have, however, been able to publish ONE post (today), which led me to believe the situation might be resolved. Alas, it isn’t, because when I tried to edit it (or post a new post), I encountered the same problems. In the past, this problem never occurred on either Mac. Also, I hooked up an ancient Windows based machine and all Google-sites functioned perfectly.
If there is anyone out there, who is experiencing similar problems and/or found a solution, feedback would be very much appreciated.
Erwin
Message was edited by: erwinvee

PS. Am I supposed to mark each response as 'helpful'? I consider all responses helpful, so I'd gladly do so.
Generally, if a suggestion moves your troubleshooting forward (by eliminating possible problems, pointing out new avenues of investigation, etc) you could mark those as "helpful". Mark a suggestion with a green star if that suggestion actually helped solve your problem.
Getting back to your problem, do you happen to have a VM (like Fusion) on one of your Macs? Just curious if an XP guest OS running on the Mac has a problem or not.
Another test could be to use a browser that doesn't go through the same software layers that the other browsers do. For example, a command-line browser like "links". Note that this doesn't come with OS X, but can be installed. I use MacPorts, so it's as simple as running "sudo port install links" from the Terminal. If you're not familiar with the Terminal/command line, then this test is probably more hassle than it's worth...

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