Sanity check - Logical column named "Month"

Logical Table: Period
Logical Column: Month
Version: 10.1.3.3
- Can create a dashboard prompt on this column
- Can create a report filter on this column, but it only works for the month of September
- Logical SQL looks fine (WHERE Period."Month" = 'August')
Is this some sort of reserved word weirdness?
When I do the same report based on "Month Abbreviation" (Aug) I get data.
Thoughts?

I have this model and it works fine.
If you create a new condition based on that column, and click to generate a list of values to select one, are you seeing the value 'August' in there? Could there be a space at the end of the string? ie. 'August_'

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The consultant proved me wrong and showed me that in fact, when making a logical column that you can have it "map" to two physical column names
Since every minute with the consultant is $$$ I tried to google around to find out why and how is this so but havent been able to find anything
Could someone explain to me why this would be done?
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In this case equi join.
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When you use Fact,Table 1 and 2
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Like
Fact
dim 1
dim 2
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CMP : Table does not have a column named ...

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The table and field are present in the database, is there any way to debug whats wrong?
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This is almost always the case when using CMP and the schema hasn't been updated after adding the new column to the database. This has happened to me multiple times in the past month.
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Logical Column Aggregation

I have CurrentDollars and CurrentUnits in my measures table, and I"ve created PriorDollars and PriorUnits logical columns utilizing the AGO function. Since 'Use existing logical columns as the source' is checked, I don't have access to the Aggregation tab, and everything I've read leads me to believe that this is OBIEE's way of forcing inheritance of the aggregation rule of the 'source' column.
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Edited by: Tom G. on Aug 26, 2009 11:30 AM

Hi,
What is the source for AGO measures PriorDollars and PriorUnits?
AGO(CurrentUnits, '?',?)
AGO(CurrentDollars, '?',?)
Have you set up hierarchy correctly (because you said that the granularity in your fact table is at week grain) and it should be like this:
Fiscal Year > Fiscal Quarter > Fiscal Month > Fiscal Week
It depends on how did you define your TIME dimension.
Try maybe like this:
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and the same for
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Try it.
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http://obiee101.blogspot.com/2008/11/obiee-ago-and-todate-series.html
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Hello
Can someone shed some light that in what scenario ..defining a logical column in terms of other logical column is beneficial compared to defining logical column in terms of physical sources?
I found something on google that said defining in terms of logical columns is like one time thing. I dont understand, even if you define in terms of physical source that' too one time.
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Thank you

well logical columns from physical source, if in logical fact table you can set aggr rules. Logical columns based on other logical columns you can not. Logical columns based on other logical columns will inherit the aggr rules. So for instance, if you create col1 and col2. Both based off physical and both having sum aggr rule. If you create logical column col3 based off these two as such "col1"/"col2" it will produce the following sum(col1)/cum(col2). Now if you really wanted sum(col1/col2) then you should have made col3 based off physical as col1/col2 with aggr rule of sum.
Also of some note, all logical columns based off physical will be performed in the inner most query. So for my example above to get col3 where it is logical col1/logical col2 or sum(col1)/sum(col2) the physical query will be:
select D1.c1/D1.c2
from (
select sum(col1) as c1,
sum(col2) as c2
from tableA
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I hope this helps!

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Logical Columns - Running Sum & 3Month Rollover

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Need to build a logical column.
I have a column with number of units (count distinct) in RPD.
I need to build a new logical column in the REPOSITORY , such that it has running sum values.... sothat when i pick this #units column and months column in the ANSWERS...I need to get roll over of all previous values for first month.
Say Jan ---> XXXX units ( summation of all previous available units - few years)
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Based on this newly built column I need to build another column of " 3 months roll over " column.
Replies appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Hi user11939829m
So help me understand your new measures a little better. For the sake of this post, let's say your data is like so
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Jan 2010 -- 1
Feb 2010 -- 2
Mar 2010 -- 3
Apr 2010 -- 4
May 2010 -- 5
Jun 2010 -- 6Then let's say you have a report with the above columns and the new running sum columns.
Month Year -- Units -- Running Sum Units
Jan 2010 -- 1 -- 1
Feb 2010 -- 2 -- 3
Mar 2010 -- 3 -- 6
Apr 2010 -- 4 -- 10
May 2010 -- 5 -- 15
Jun 2010 -- 6 -- 21Now what exactly would your three months rollover be? Would the 3 month rolling sum = running sum for current month + running sum for last month + running sum for last last month?
i.e.
Month Year -- Units -- Running Sum Units -- 3 Month Rolling Sum
Jan 2010 -- 1 -- 1 -- 1
Feb 2010 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4
Mar 2010 -- 3 -- 6 -- 10
Apr 2010 -- 4 -- 10 -- 19
May 2010 -- 5 -- 15 -- 31
Jun 2010 -- 6 -- 21 -- 46Not sure what value such a measure would add. Or do you mean 3 month rolling sum would be the running sum for just the last three months (like below)? This makes more sense but in your description, you indicated that you'd build the 3 month rolling sum off of the running sum which confused me a bit.
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Jan 2010 -- 1 -- 1 -- 1
Feb 2010 -- 2 -- 3 -- 3
Mar 2010 -- 3 -- 6 -- 6
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Logical column levels and aggregation

Hi all,
In order to have reliable results, I had to specify a dimension level in a logical column properties.
As a consequence, the generated query includes this level in the query (that's great), but no aggregation is performed afterwards. Therefore, when I display this measure alone in a flat table or a ticker, I have a set of detailed value instead of an aggregated value. The only place where I can see my aggregated value is in a pivot table.
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Hi,
What is the source for AGO measures PriorDollars and PriorUnits?
AGO(CurrentUnits, '?',?)
AGO(CurrentDollars, '?',?)
Have you set up hierarchy correctly (because you said that the granularity in your fact table is at week grain) and it should be like this:
Fiscal Year > Fiscal Quarter > Fiscal Month > Fiscal Week
It depends on how did you define your TIME dimension.
Try maybe like this:
PriorYEARDollars = AGO(CurrentUnits, 'YEAR',1)
and the same for
PriorYEARUnits =AGO(CurrentDollars, 'YEAR',1)
Now, if you put in the report
YEAR
CurrentUnits
CurrentDollars
PriorYEARUnits
PriorYEARDollars
you'll get only three rows (for 3 years) with PRIOR YEAR measures.
Try it.
A good reference for understanding AGO:
http://obiee101.blogspot.com/2008/11/obiee-ago-and-todate-series.html
Also you need to set chronological key correctly for TIME dimension.
Regards
Goran
http://108obiee.blogspot.com

Error in edit formula of a logical column in report

Hi All,
I'm getting the below error when I click ok in 'Edit Formula for a logical column in Criteria of Report.
Formula syntax is invalid.
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Could anybody help me out in this?
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URGENT: Paradox "Logical" Column Lost in HS translation to Oracle 8.1.7.3

I have a Paradox table with several fields. One field is a Logical Column.
Although I can see the paradox table through my HS set-up, I cannot see the
Logical column. Additionally, I can not select from it either.
Has anyone encountered this scenario, and if so, what is the
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ODBC MS Paradox Driver

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I decided to start out small and try something simpler, changing my derived column to be only Sales.OPPORTUNITY.ESTIMATEDCLOSE. This returned "2008/01/31 00:00:00" in Answers - sort of expected.
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- Restarted all the Oracle services, thinking it's a cach'ing issue - no luck.
- I rebooted the server - no luck.
Once, when I started out with only MONTHNAME(Sales.OPPORTUNITY.ESTIMATEDCLOSE) I got back correct values in Answers (Jan, Feb, Mar..) and I thought the problem was finally gone. So I added || ' - ' || CAST(Year(Sales.OPPORTUNITY.ESTIMATEDCLOSE) AS CHAR(4)) to the derived formula. Guess what, Answers kept on giving me back only the Month names, completely ignoring my updated formula.
Anybody else ran into this problem? Something so simple should surely work...

John,
Yes, cleared the cache (from Dashboard Administration) and also used nqcmd Call SAPurgeAllCache. Restarted BI Server. Still no luck.
I tried your formula and then only got back "2008/01/31" (just the date without the timestamp) - very strange.
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I started with a request in Answers that does not contain my derived column and then add my derived column to the report. The text would be all wrong in this column (Jan, Feb, March). Then I add the same column again to the report and the second added column will magically show the correct strings (Jan - 2008) !!! Even stranger is that the moment I added the same column again to the report, the text on the first column would also magically jump to the correct values (Jan - 2008).
I did a bit more testing and created a blank request and added my derived column as the only column - this time it will show the correct values immediately. It does seem like it's tied to the content already in the request. I went a step further and saved my buggy request and added it to a Dashboard - it worked perfectly in the Dashboard.
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Hi Gurus,
I have detail report like this
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2013    D                     1         9000      100000
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Let me explain further:
>>Desired report:
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Item                 D
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                        Feb                  1                9.000          10.0000
                        Mar                  1                9.000          10.0000
                        Apr                  2                1.000          10.0000
                        May                 2                1.000          10.0000
                        Dec                 2                1.000           10.0000
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cezarini wrote:
The trouble is that i could not syncronize my check box selection with onRowClick event of table, an example
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Basicly what this is what i did:
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[http://livedemo.exadel.com/richfaces-demo/richfaces/support.jsf;|http://livedemo.exadel.com/richfaces-demo/richfaces/support.jsf;]

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Hi experts,
i am new in using obiee... i would like to ask how to create a logical column based on a select statement. i have a column report_date and the logical column will be a distinct year-month of that column.. please refer below..
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this is the format i want to have in my logical column..
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2008-6
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hi,
thank you for your reply, i just created a view just to have a column with the data that i want then used the column in the business layer.. :D

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