Query regarding Level Based Measure on Reports

Hi All,
I am facing an issue in OBIEE while using aggregate measures.
Scenario
My Report has the following columns. There is security applied on the report ie an Employee who logs in gets to see only his/her data.
1) Employee
2) Month
3) Monthly Sales
4) Org Sales(Aggregate Sales at Organization Level)
My Issue is that even when an Employee does not have any Monthly Sales for a Month (no entry for the employee in the dimension table) it displays results for Org Sales. So I have a report that looks like given below.
Please note - There is no entry for this employee in the Dimension table for this month.
Employee
Month
Monthly Sales
Org Sales
12000
I do not want the report to display any value when there is no monthly Sales for the Employee. From the back end, I can see that there are 2 separate queries generated for this report. 1 for the fetching the Monthly Sales for the Employee and 1 for fetching the Org Sales. If I apply a condition saying Employee IS NOT NULL, it gets applied on the first query.
Is there some workaround to make sure that the report does not come up or show some message when Employee data is not returned by the first query
Thanks
X

hi Devarasu,
Thanks mate.
I know how level based measure works.
But in my case The Hierarchy is bit different The UDA is part of Product hierarchy but its not the Child of Subdivision,
I think problem is occurring because of that only but i am not sure
anyone have any idea about this kind of hierarchy and level based measures?
Thanks

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[http://gerardnico.com/wiki/dat/obiee/measure_level_based]
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All
-Region
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Yes he wants "sales by store"/"total country sales" when a store is in the report and "sales by country"/"total region sales" when country is in the report, but he also wants to "sales by lowest level of detail" / "sales by lowest + 2 level of detail" when store is in the report and this using the same logical column.
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Gurus,
We have a requirement which we think complex to achieve at OBIEE level. Please help if anyone knows a solid solution for this problem.
Orders, Shipments and Revenue are the fact tables and we have common dimensions like customer, product, time and others. For each fact table there is a corresponding dimension to store the non metric columns like Order Number and Shipment Number.
Now the requirement from the customer is
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http://i.imgur.com/1CfXd.png
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http://i.imgur.com/KLgBg.png
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Hi all
Edited by: aharrab_be on Jan 19, 2009 7:23 AM
I've just understood the meaning of those level based measure and It's not very useful for this purpose
Sorry
Edited by: aharrab_be on Jan 19, 2009 7:24 AM

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Hi experts
I have a geography dimension with the following hierarchy WW/Country/store.
I created 2 level based measures using as source a measure called 'sales':
level based measure 1: store sales share of WW (it shows for every store his contribution in the World Wide)
level based measure 2: store sales share of country(it shows for every store his contribution in the country he belongs to)
when I test the measures separately they are working perfectly:
report 1: at country level
country------------store name--------------level based measure 1
country1----------store 1-------------------------------30%--------------/
country1----------store 2-------------------------------30%--------------/
country1----------store 3-------------------------------40%--------------/
report 2: at WW level
country------------store name--------------level based measure 2
country1----------store 1-------------------------------2%--------------/
country1----------store 2-------------------------------3%--------------/
country1----------store 3-------------------------------4%--------------/
country2----------store 1-------------------------------1%--------------/
country2----------store 2-------------------------------2%--------------/
country2----------store 3-------------------------------2%--------------/
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country10-------store5----------------------------------1%--------------/
and the issue I have is when create the following report for a specific store
country------------store name--------------level based measure 1--------------level based measure 2
country1----------store 1-------------------------------30%---------------------------2%
NULL----------------NULL---------------------------------NULL-------------------------NULL
NULL----------------NULL---------------------------------NULL-------------------------NULL
NULL----------------NULL---------------------------------NULL-------------------------NULL
NULL----------------NULL---------------------------------NULL-------------------------NULL
NULL----------------NULL---------------------------------NULL-------------------------NULL
NULL----------------NULL---------------------------------NULL-------------------------NULL
NULL----------------NULL---------------------------------NULL-------------------------NULL
NULL----------------NULL---------------------------------NULL-------------------------NULL
NULL----------------NULL---------------------------------NULL-------------------------NULL
NULL----------------NULL---------------------------------NULL-------------------------NULL
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