Replacement Path and Aggregation

Question

I need to use a characteristic in a formula so I used the replacement path trick that I found using these forums. Thanks! I have an issue though. In order for the replacement path to work it seems like I have to have the characteristic in my "rows" section. I don't want to see the characteristic in my result set so I have it flagged as "no display". Now the data doesn't summarize correctly.
My data is showing up like:
ABC,123
ABC,234
DEF,123
DEF,234
I want it to show as:
ABC,357
DEF,357
I know the reason ABC and DEF are showing multiple times in the first example is because there are two different values for the hidden replacement path characteristic, but I don't want multiple rows. Is there a way around having hidden characteristics preventing summarization?

Answer 1

Let me give you a better example...
We sell paint. I have an infocube that is at the cans sold grain. If I were to do a query on Color and Cans sold it would return
ColorSold, CansSold
Red, 1
Green, 1
Blue, 3
Orange, 2
Yellow, 3
We don't really have green and orange on stock, we make it upon request by blending the two primary colors. We don't have the data at that level though, only cans sold level. The customer wants to have the data summarized by the base stock colors sold. I know the components though, so I created a table that looks like this...
ColorSold, ColorStock, ColorFactor
Red, Red, 1
Blue, Blue, 1
Yellow, Yellow, 1
Green, Blue, .5
Green, Yellow, .5
Orange, Red, .5
Orange, Yellow, .5
I made a data store out of the table and joined it to my infocube using an InfoSet. I need to be able to do a left outer join, but that isn't really important. Even though ColorFactor is a number, I made it a characteristic because it always tried to aggregate improperly.
My new data set would look something like this. Notice if you were to total it up, you would get double the cans sold for the blends...
ColorSold, ColorStock, ColorFactor, CansSold
Red, Red, 1, 1
Green, Blue, .5, 1
Green, Yellow, .5, 1
Blue, Blue, 1, 3
Orange, Red, .5, 2
Orange, Yellow, .5, 2
Yellow, Yellow, 1, 3
I made a formula variable with a replacement path of ColorFactor called ColorFactor% and made a caculated key figure from multiplying CansSold * ColorFactor% and named it AdjustedCansSold
ColorSold, ColorStock, ColorFactor, AdjustedCansSold
Red, Red, 1, 1
Green, Blue, .5, .5
Green, Yellow, .5, .5
Blue, Blue, 1, 3
Orange, Red, .5, 1
Orange, Yellow, .5, 1
Yellow, Yellow, 1, 3
What I want to end up with is...
ColorStock, AdjustedCansSold
Red, 2
Blue, 3.5
Yellow, 4.5
The problem is, when I simply hide ColorFactor it yeilds.... because it is still in the characteristics.
ColorStock, ColorFactor, AdjustedCansSold
Red, 1
Blue, .5
Yellow, .5
Blue, 3
Red, 1
Yellow, 1
Yellow, 3
When I pull it out completely it hoses up the calculated key figure.
So I either need to be able to remove ColorFactor from the characteristics or figure out a different way to get to the end state that the customer needs. Hopefully this helps. I appreciate your responses thus far.