Report Generation from Multiple Facts

I am looking at the options to generate reports based on facts with different grains. The requirement I present here is generic and Im exploring options on this.
Lets say we have two facts fact1 and fact2. The common column between these facts is named - common_column
Now as the grain is different at any point of time, the report generates the data based inline with following SQL
SELECT fact1.column_1, fact1.common_column , aggregate_fun(fact2.column_2 group by fact2.common_column ) from....
Options
*1. Creating a third fact* - A straight forward solution is to create a fact3 and store all the info the report needs
*2. Using fx in OBIEE report* - Use an expression to get the desired output using fx
Do you have any better options that you would suggest to meet this ?
Thanks

I understand what you are speaking about. Not sure if that would stop us down the name but as of now, my requirement is slightly different hence I believe it should work fine.
Did you refer any good article that shows us how to create logical tables and use it ?
I created a logical table with the two facts as the sources and try to save it. It fails with consistency check and My_Logical_Table. does not join to any other logical table.
Do I need to create two logical tables in my case one for the first fact and one the second fact and use them.. ?
Apparently I wasnted to create a single logical table with the sources as fact1 and fact2 so that it shows the segregated data in one logical view. Any thoughts ?

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Hi Vinod,
The scenario provided in the link above doesnt match to my issue.
We need to develop a report from multiple fact tables at different levels with conformed & non conformed dimension columns.
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