Outputing member names & aliases from an outline

Is there a easy way to export member & alias info. If I open an outline, I can do a copy and paste, but only the member names themselves get copied, no alias info. Is there an easy way to do this.

I wrote an Excel utility workbook that works well for that issue (and some others).You can use it to do the following:1. Paste members you've copied from the Outline Editor into a single column. Admittedly, you can use Member Select for this...but when I wrote this, I was back and forth between Excel and App Manager so much that it was just easier.2. Using the highlighted range of member names or aliases, paste either member names, aliases, or both, into one or two columns. You can overwrite the original range or place the members/aliases in a different range.Other features include a "mini-cascade" with optional worksheet tab naming, and some Excel-specific functions, such as:Type a function and parameters, and the function will be applied to the highlighted range as values (great for quickly changing case of cells or extracting right, middle or left characters)....some other stuff, too. Anyone interested?Jared

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Hi,
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Kind Regards

First of all I hope you have not changed the properties of the outline in EAS for a planning application.
For more information on using aliases in smartview have a read of :- Smartview --- Display options --- to display alias names
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John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

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If your Essbase system permits the use of duplicate member names, you can choose whether to display member names with or without their descriptions or aliases.
To check if your Outline does allow duplicate members, follow these steps:
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The 'Defects Fixed' section of the release notes for 11.1.2 includes...
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I created a metaoutline in EIS to load an ASO cube.
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Thanks,
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Hi Paul
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