Planning Shared dimension in EPMA

Hi All,
We are currently exploring LCM to do application migration from one environment to another. I have managed to restore the LCM extract (Application Metadata) successfully and deployed a Planning application. However, all of my Shared dimension in EPMA for the Planning app seemed are changed to Local. If I tried to manually change the Local dimension to Shared using Share dimension option, all the properties got overwritten. For instance, when I changed my Year dimension from Local to Share, all the Start Year and End Year properties for the Scenario dimensions were blanked out. Does anyone have any ideas on how to preserve the Shared dimension in LCM imports? Thanks.
Regards,
Gerd

Once the EPMA has been migrated just convert the Local dimension to shared.
*"1 Edit the application in the EPMA Dimension Library*
*2 Right-click on the Local dimension in the application > Share Dimension*
*In the options screen, choose to "create a new shared dimension" if the dimension does not already exist in the Shared Library. Choose to "merge as shared" if the dimension already exist in the Shared Library and you want to merge it with the newly imported dimension. Choose to "replace" if you want to replace the dimension in the Shared Library with the newly imported dimension."*
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

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