Show child levels when the top level is forced to be null - Avoid aggregations on the top level

Question

Hi everybody,
it was difficult to select a title for my question.
Let´s say I have a geographical hierarchy with Region --> Country --> District --> Store levels
I want to avoid the aggregations in local currency at the Region Level because that makes no sense.
I scoped the Net Sales measure like this:
SCOPE ([Measures].[Net Sales], [Fx Rate].[Fx Rate].[Local Currency], [Stores].[Store].Members);
this = SUM([Fx Rate].[Fx Rate].&[1], [Measures].[Net Sales LC]); 
END SCOPE;
SCOPE ([Measures].[Net Sales], [Fx Rate].[Fx Rate].[Local Currency], [Stores].[Region].Members);
this = null;
END SCOPE;
The scopes are working but I have a visualization problem. When I drag and drop the geo hierarchy in the pivot table nothing is shown because the upper level (Region) has only empty cells (this=null;). If I change the Fx Rate type to a reference currency,
then the regions are shown and I can expand the lower levels, change the filter again to local currency and the values are back, but this is not the best approach.
Any ideas about how to tackle that? Any comment would be appreciated
Kind Regards

Answer 1

I blogged about this scenario and a solution here:
http://www.artisconsulting.com/blogs/greggalloway/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=24
http://artisconsulting.com/Blogs/GregGalloway