Renaming Column Names in a single shot in Requests

Hi All,
We are having one issue while trying to rename the column in the requests.
Requirement:
We are having two presentation table "Fact Summary" and "Countries Dimension". Both of these tables contain one column "Country Description".
Presently in all the reports we have developed till now, we used "Fact Summary"."Country Description".
Now the users want us to replace "Fact Summary"."Country Description" with "Countries Dimension"."Country Description" and delete the "Country Description" from "Fact Summary" table.
Approach we followed:
Opened the Catalog Manager in Offline mode and used the XML Search and Replace option.
With this option we are able to replace column names that are selected in a request but not those just used as filters(is prompted).
Example:
Suppose we have one request with "States Dimension"."State" seleted and "Fact Summary"."Country Description" as filter, we are able to not able to replace "Fact Summary"."Country Description" with "Countries Dimension"."Country Description"
Can anyone please help me...Is there any alternative solution for this?
Thanks in Advance.....

Nope, I don't have a solution for this. You must never model descriptive columns in a fact table. Even when you have descriptive columns or textual content in one of your fact table columns, you should model them as part of a logical dimension table. Let this be a good lesson.
Regards,
Stijn

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