Running Aggregate Functions, Attribute or Measure?

Hi Guys:
I wonder if this is a bug in BIEE 11g? I am using 11.1.1.6.
My requirement is quite simple, I have a measure, and I want to show this measure as a cumulative curve by month. For example, let's suppose there are three columns in Criteria:
Month, Amount, RSUM(Amount)
Then I plot a curve by RSUM(Amount) vs. Month. In BIEE 10, there is no problems. However in 11.1.1.6, I got an error. I look into the table and found that, after using running aggregate functions, like RSUM or MSUM, the column becames Attribute, instead of Measure. In other word, although I can see the RSUM(Amount) column in Criteria page shows a yellow icon, it turns into blue in Results page! Since it becames Attributes in Results page, I cannot drag RSUM(Amount) into Measures area in Line Graph. I can see the correct values in Table view, but got error in Line Graph view.
Why the column properties are different between Criteria and Results? And are there any workaround to plot a cumulative curve? I dont want Parete graph.
Thanks
Larry

Hi Larry,
I do not think this is any bug in .6 and I just gave a try successfully to confirm that too. My test case follows
1. Created an analysis with Period.Month and Measures.Value
2. Added another measure and changed the formula of Measures.Value as RSUM(Measures.Value) and still see it to be a measure as expected.
3. Navigated to results section and added all kind of graphs to notice that it is behaving as expected.
Can you let us know, what error are you hitting at in the graph?
Thank you,
Dhar

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Edited by: user12115038 on 26.10.2009 8:08

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