Spotfire POC using ASO Essbase data source

Looking for anyone with success using Spotfire on Essbase, specifically ASO storage type. We're performing a proof of concept, testing Spotfire 6.5.2 using Essbase 11.1.2.2 as a data source. We've been able to connect without any issues and visualize some data. We have several calculated measures in Essbase that are not being visualized in Spotfire. When we select these measures we receive the following alert: “The query is not supported in the external data source. External error: It is not possible to aggregate the measure 'ACC' in the current configuration. The aggregation would be based on an Essbase formula that is not guaranteed to be additive.”
Does anyone have experience connecting spotfire to essbase, I would like to hear your feedback and lessons learned to help us jump start our effort.
Thanks in advance for your feedback.

Hi Sayak,
Let me know if I got you right, that you have a Priority as an account member in Essbase with the members 0,1,2 which you are trying to report as 'LOW', 'MEDIUM' and 'HIGH' through OBIEE.
Ok, If it is so, here are some pointers
1. If I go by your example, I still cannot see PRIORITY as a measure, instead I would consider this as a Dimension (might well be an Attribute Dimension to be precise)
2. For some reasons, if this is still a measure here are some steps what you could do (I could not test these though, but hope you can get it right when you run through them)
Import your Essbase outline to OBIEE and your relational lookup table too in the physical layer..
Convert the Essbase measure dimension to flat measures in physical layer. Yes, just because you got to have a lookup for this priority measure exclusively and I do not think we can do it, with the account still as a hierarchy in OBIEE.
Once, you pull the Essbase cube into BMM, you could see the Fact table for the Essbase cube with this priority measure.
Create the lookup logical table too in BMM, using this physical lookup table.
Now for the Priority measure in Essbase's Cube Fact table, you could use the Lookup function as below
LOOKUP
SPARSE/DENSE
#Logical Lookup table's description column here #,
#Essbase's Priority Measure
Just give it a try, I am sure you will find a way through. Hope this helps.
Thank you,
Dhar

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