Summarize across hierarchies

Hi
I am implementing a web report where I need to show purchased materials for each sold-to party. This means that all the result rows show result numbers per sold-to party. But I also need result numbers per material (not displayed, but to use in a formula). The problem is that the numbers I need to summarize per material come from a formula, and this means that I can't use 'Constant selection'.
Any suggestions?
All help appreciated.
Tove-Mette

Hi OracleDRM
Thanks for your response. I'm trying to use Country and Currency related attributes in other hierarchies as i have to establish a relationship between the hierarchies.
So if i change a currency or country it should automatically reflect in other hierarchies where it (property) is being referenced.
Node names are not the same (for example, EUR for currency as a node name and BE for country as a node name). Both hierarchies are flat lists rolling up to a top node. But i want one of the properties (Currency ID and Country ID) from each hierarchy to be referenced in other hierarchies like Business Unit for example.
i don't want to maintain values locally for every hierarchy. Am looking for a solution where i can maintain Country and Currency properties i'm trying to reference in other hierarchies as master lists.
I tried to define the property i'm referencing in other hierarchies as Global Node but it didnt work (cos the node names are not the same).
Any ideas?
Thanks

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Can someone tell me if there is a way to access property values in a hierarchy from another hierarchy?
I'm trying to access a property value in a different hierarchy from my current hierarchy.
In essence i'm trying to pick up the value automatically from another hierarchy and display it in my property attached to my current hierarchy (trying to establish a relationship).
Both properties have been defined as local and values have already been populated for the nodes in the hierarchy i'm trying to reference.
I tried various ways like defining properties as global nodes once for each hierarchy as a test but nothing works.
i want the changes made to a node property in a hierarchy to be reflected automatically by another node property in another hierarchy.
This is quite urgent. Appreciate your help in this matter.
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Hi OracleDRM
Thanks for your response. I'm trying to use Country and Currency related attributes in other hierarchies as i have to establish a relationship between the hierarchies.
So if i change a currency or country it should automatically reflect in other hierarchies where it (property) is being referenced.
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Hello OLAPians
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Currently i am on a 10g OLAP environment and am using the oracle sample SQL cubeview generator to create an SQLview of my cube.
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Hi to all.
I have created through AWM 11 a customer dimension with two hierarchies as follows.
SLM_HIER: All Customers -> Salesman -> Customer
GEO_HIER: All Customers -> State -> City -> Customer
I have also created a SALES_CUBE (measures: QUANTITY, VALUE, aggregation: SUM) that is dimensioned with Customer dim.
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Ideally you should include the Cust Id, Quantity columns in your obiee answers report and use an internal answers object/view like a Pivot View to hide Customer details column and get a localized aggregation performed over the resultset returned from OLAP to get the consolidated Quantity. Answers table has data at Customer level, Answers Pivot can show the required result.
Note1: The Cube cannot have this result pre-calculated since its a contradictory combination of filters across hierarchies. Level specific aggregate values calculated (or pre-calculated) in the cube for Salesman level (h1) would contain Customers from all cities (h2) and similarly City level (h2) Aggregates would contain Customers of all Salesmen (h1).
Note2: I believe OBIEE modeling with OLAP suffers from some issues relating to multiple hierarchies (e.g: if you have filter from non-default hierarchy CITY in ('Athens','Rome') alone, i think it would still fetch the results from lowest common level Customer instead of from City level directly).
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*Function Hir3_P(%Arg%)
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*Function Hir1(%Arg%)
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*endfunction
*Function Hir2(%Arg%)
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*Function Hir3(%Arg%)
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*endfunction
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Hi experts,
I have report with following scenarios:
<h3>Account Name---ActualBudget---Variance --Variance Percentage </h3>
Account Level 1______3400_______5200____-1800______________X
-Account Level 2______2200_______4200_____-2000______________XX
--Account Level 3______1000_______2000_____-1000_______________-50
--Account Level 3______1200_______2200_____-1000_______________-45.45454545
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You dont have to download anything, just duplicate the current tab and reset your numbers. (tap the tab once and you get a choice of duplicate or delete.) You could then summarize across tabs if you liked.
It is just set up as a way of tracking a period, your choice of duration.
I get paid on the 1st and 15th, with distinct budgeting concerns for both periods (times are tight.). So we would do one for each two weeks to see how we did. Maybe double the budget numbers to get monthly numbers on another tab to track that month. Maybe then copy paste that data into a YTD tab at the end of the month.
Whole bunch of ways to handle it. You dont have to stick with month by month tabs or files. Using some creative thinking, You can make it so on the YTD tab you type in a month or quarter and it shows that information through equations.
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You dont have to download anything, just duplicate the current tab and reset your numbers. (tap the tab once and you get a choice of duplicate or delete.) You could then summarize across tabs if you liked.
It is just set up as a way of tracking a period, your choice of duration.
I get paid on the 1st and 15th, with distinct budgeting concerns for both periods (times are tight.). So we would do one for each two weeks to see how we did. Maybe double the budget numbers to get monthly numbers on another tab to track that month. Maybe then copy paste that data into a YTD tab at the end of the month.
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I get the following error when selecting the maintain option on the product dimension (PROD):
An error has occurred on the server
Error class: Express Failure
Server error descriptions:
INI: Error creating a definition manager, Generic at TxsOqConnection::generic<BuildProcess>
INI: XOQ-01711: Aggregation path for hierarchies on a dimension "PROD" is inconsistent, Generic at TxsOqStdFormCommand::execute
I am running awm11.1.0.7.0B on db version 11G 11.1.0.7.0.
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Edited by: bmwrider on Sep 18, 2009 11:54 AM
Edited by: bmwrider on Sep 18, 2009 11:57 AM

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[Thread: Error while populating Dimension |http://forums.oracle.com/forums/click.jspa?searchID=-1&messageID=3270334]

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2) Within the hierarchy (Shared Nodes)
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You dont have to download anything, just duplicate the current tab and reset your numbers. (tap the tab once and you get a choice of duplicate or delete.) You could then summarize across tabs if you liked.
It is just set up as a way of tracking a period, your choice of duration.
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Whole bunch of ways to handle it. You dont have to stick with month by month tabs or files. Using some creative thinking, You can make it so on the YTD tab you type in a month or quarter and it shows that information through equations.
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