Ranking and Date dimensions

Hello everyone,
I am trying to sort some values descending in order with addtional time dimensions so i can prompt them on my dashboard.
I can get it to rank correctly when I omit the Date fields (Year,Qtr,Month) however, if these are present then i get the ranking based on smaller values due to the dates because OBIEE is breaking it down to the month
which have different costs associated to that date.
Example:
Field1 | Value(desc) | Rank
1001     $3,654      1
1400 $1,520      2
3501     $1,511      3
3508     $1,200      4
1601     $958     5
1401     $608     6
1602     $200     7
So when Month is present for example, my amount is not 3,654 but rather 2 rows that sum up to 3,654. I do not want that to happen, but i still want to have the fields so i can filter.
Field1 | Value(desc) | Rank | Month
1001     $1,830      1 Jan-2009
1001     $1,824      2 Feb-2009
Does anyone know how to display as the first table with the additional Date fields on affecting the row result?

Hi Darren,
According to your description, there a day and hour granularity in your fact table, so you want to a hierarchy like Hour - Day - Week - Month - Year, right?
In your scenario, you created a time table that only contains a surrogate key (INTEGER) and actual time in hours (VARCHAR). We cannot create a Hour - Day - Week - Month - Year hierarchy without ant relationship between date table and time table. As per my understanding,
you need create a foreigner key in time table, and join those table in the data source view, then you can create such a hierarchy. Here are some links about create time dimension, please see:
http://www.ssas-info.com/analysis-services-articles/59-time-dimension/1224-date-and-time-dimensions-template
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/25852/Creating-Time-Dimension-in-Microsoft-Analysis-Serv
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Charlie Liao
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