SSIS Pkg to Process Members from Member Sheet

BPC 5
Is there a way to process dimensions with Data Manager which mimics the Process members from member sheet option available in the Admin console? I have tried the provided Admin_Makedim package but it will not run without supplying a table name. According to the documentation, I thought that if a table wasn't provided, it would use the member sheet. However, I think the documentation is outdated.
I realize that I can create tasks to clear the mbr table and then load the data to there as I am doing that with some dimensions where I get flat files from BI. However, there are other dimensions where we want our users to maintain in Excel outside of BPC. I simply want to replace the membersheets in the adminapp directory and then process those dimensions.
Thanks,
--Brent

Ok, I guess I will do that like I have done with our other dimensions. Unfortunately, that means creating connection managers and mapping the fields for 17 more dimensions. It is suprising that there isn't a task for processing a dimension from a member sheet when that is the way it is done with the admin tool.
Thanks,
--Brent

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Runtime errors
MESSAGE_TYPE_X*
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Control Framework : Error processing control
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Variable 2.......... " "
Variable 3.......... " "
Variable 4.......... " "
Variable 3.......... " "
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No access to environment 'PETFAS'
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No access to environment 'PETFAS'
No access to environment 'PETFAS'
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