Sort by alias

I need to be able to sort a large dimension by the alias. The situation is that the dimension is a company dimension with a company number which is the member and the company name is the alias. The company name is subject to change (corrections, name changes) but the company number doesnt change. I cannot make the company name my member name due to the fact that it is subject to change. Is there a way to do this?

Unfortunately the only available settings in Essbase are 'Sort by member' so no you will not be able to sort by alias.Hope this helps.Paul ArmitageAnalitica Ltdwww.analitica.co.uk

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Greetings!!!
I have defined employee dimension as row in Webform and display property as "Alias". Now the requirement is, I need to display the employees based on sort by their alias names.
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tvmk

I am sure others will also share their opinions, but I think this can be done thru updating your metadata upload process. Let say you get your Employee list from PeopleSoft and update your employee dimension by using one of the ETL tools (ODI, outline load utility, HAL, etc). I am not an ETL expert, but I have seen this before where the sorting would take place in the ETL process, so the members are loaded to your application in ascending order. Makes sense?

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I am trying to create dimension build rule whicl will sort the dimension members in an ascending order, but it has to be based on the alias name instead of the member name.
I have tried both Parent-CHild and Generation reference but it doesn't work.
For example
for the city members PSE ( alias name Purchase), and USALB ( alias Albany) needs to be sorted by alias names
the current order is
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USALB(albany)
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USALB( Albany)
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Even with presorting the input, you still have work to do. By default, Essbase will add new members to the bottom of the list of membrers, it does not insert them into an existing hierarchy in the right places. If your trying to update existing hierarchies and are going the SQL route, you will need two rules (or 1 rule and a flat file). You also need to specify remove unspecified as part of the dimension build process.
HAve a dummy input (either sql or file) that gets loaded the first time. IT will basically wipe out all the members of the dimension, then your second rule (or same rule calling your SQL) can reload the dimension sorted in alias order.
IT is important that these two rules be done together (either in MaxL using comasin a single statement) or in a BSO cube in the outline before the outline is saved. Otherwise you will have deleted any data that existed in the database. It would be impartant that your SQL also pulls all members (including any special members)
Edited by: GlennS_2 on Jan 6, 2010 9:48 AM
You say you are going to change the stored procedure. That is not necessary, you could put an order by clause in your sql extract statement

Strange problem when trying to burn a playlist

I have a G5 and Itunes 6 or 6.0, whatever he current one is...anyway. I put in the songs (from my "library") into my playlist. All are, say, Aiff files, and all are playable (ie I can press the space before the song and it plays fine) and all are 44/16 stereo, and all are checked. I put in a blank CD and press the burn button and it goes for a few seconds like it's getting ready to burn...and suddenly an error message comes on that says something like: ! THERE ARE NO SONGS ON THIS PLAYLIST-PLEASE CHECK ALL SONGS...but all songs have been checked off and the songs are definitely there!...but ITUNES doesn't seem to "see" them or something. Also, sometimes (not always) it seems to burn, but then an extra step happens. At the end of the burn, the burn icon changes to a import icion that says, Import songs and I have to press THAT and THEN the cd is actually burned, that is if the computer even sees the tunes...it's very odd...Final additional weird thing. On my desktop there are now at least 2 CD icons, which both disappear when I eject the one with the title. I've even seen 3 or 4 cd icons there (at the same time) by the way. BUT Mainly I want to know why it says "there are no songs in this playlist".
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What kind of CD are you burning (Audio or MP3)?
If you're burning an MP3 CD, the songs must already
be in mp3 format.
If not, iTunes will tell you that you have no songs
in the playlist.
M
I was making an audio cd. But I have since found out what the problem was. The files in my PLAYLIST I converted to aiff, since they were SDll files (I thought they were similar to AIFF, and they PLAY on Itunes...just won't burn.) When I selected the songs in the playlist and converted them...I thought all those files were converted, They were not. The converted files went into my LIBRARY, even tho I selected the ones in the playlist...and once I exchanged the SDll versions of the songs in my playlist. THEN they burned fine...but still...it's confusing..you say convert..it says it's been converted..and what they don't say is it's not been converted inside the playlist...where I had selected the songs...It just ADDED aiff versions..but only in the library...Anyway, that's what happened. But it's strange that it PLAYS SDll but won't burn them....and you'd think, logically..the ones you selected would change...but they don't. Playlists are mainly pointers to the actual files I guess...a sort of Alias..
At least it works now. But it's sad that the latest itunes does more, but also does LESS...as I used to be able to burn SDll files. Now I'll have to convert all my files to AIFF, and mp3's as I assume my ipod video won't play anything but mp3's?

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I am not sure if they will work off a NAS, but I don't see why not. (But iMovie Events will not work off a NAS)
See this post and focus in on the part about trashing the iApps plist. I would try to trash it and then open up iPhoto and iTunes to repopuplate it. Then try to see if the Media Browser works in iMovie. You should not need to trash the iMovie plist, but it would do no harm if you did.
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Need dimension members in Ascending order

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In the load rule that builds the dimension go to dimension build settings and select sort ascending. It will re-roder the members on loadl. If you are trying to sort by alias, then it's a little trickier. you would have to make sure your source file is in the correct order, then have two load rules. The first using a dummy member with remove unspecified checked to remove all the members in the dimension, then the second rule to load your sorted file (You would not check sort ascending in the rule).
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My friends and I often exchange "mixes" ala sendspace, and it's a great way for us to get cued into new music.
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EDIT: Thought of something you should try first before the hack below.
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I suspect you may be running into the same/similar problem I had with an FTP user that I set up as "service only". I created that local user to use with my xerox multifuntion for scanning to a network share. I couldn't connect to the FTP share even with an FTP client, the FTP user couldn't authenticate (edit: even with access to Filesharing and FTP services.)
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in the playlist.
M
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Sorry for such a novice question here.
I have been struggling to maintain some sort of organization and methodology with my usage of iPhoto. I have been using iPhoto and iMovie (and final cut) for my business and my process has not been without problems mainly from lack of experience on how iPhoto stores it's data.
Here is a breakdown of how things work from my perspective:
If I scan photos for customers and clean them up in Photoshop prior to my editing in iMovie I end up with a folder on my desktop that contains all of the customer's photos (which I now have way too many of these folders) I then import these into iPhoto and create my folder/smartfolder for that customer so that I can import them into iMovie.
-or-
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If you've selected the checkbox in iPhoto's Advanced preference section to copy the files into the library folder system when importing then you will have a copy of your files in the iPhoto Library/Originals folder and subfolders. That option is normally the default. So if you confirm that you have full sized files in the Originals folder and copy option is selected you can safely delete those from the boot drive. But do keep a backup copy on another HD or other media.
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As a professional photographer you might consider iView MediaPro as your primary asset management application. I use it as my primary application in conjunction with iPhoto on the same set of source files. iView for management, editing, etc. and iPhoto for books, calendars,etc.
Hope this has been of some help.
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