Query Designer - How to compare 2 non-numeric characteristics?

Hi,
In a BW query, I would like to display all materials sold for which the country of the sold-to is different of the country of the ship-to.
Both of these characteristics (countries) are available in the cube like navigation attributes. I cannot modify the modeling of the infocube.
Do you have a solution to solve my problem?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Samuel
PS: I work in BI7
Edited by: Samuel ROBELET on Jun 15, 2010 1:57 PM

Hi
Here my list of records in the infocube:
material |country of sold-to|country of ship-to|KF1|KF2
material1|                       FR |                        FR |KF11|KF12
material2|                       US |                       US |KF21|KF22
material3|                       FR |                       BE |KF31|KF32
material4|                       PT |                        FR |KF41|KF42
Expected result:
material |country of sold-to|country of ship-to|KF1|KF2
material1|                       FR |                        FR |KF11|KF12
material2|                       US |                       US KF21|KF22|
material3|                       FR |                       BE |KF31|KF32
material4|                       PT |                        FR |KF41|KF42
Samuel
Edited by: Samuel ROBELET on Jun 15, 2010 3:08 PM
Edited by: Samuel ROBELET on Jun 15, 2010 3:08 PM

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