Time Series Measures

Greetings All,
I created two time series measures in a fact table using AGO and TODATE - e.g., last month sale and year to date sales
In Answer when I select one of these two fields the data returned are correct. However, when I select both fields in a report I am getting error: column does not exist in this table.
Is selecting two or more time series measures not allowed?
Here is the entire error msg:
State: HY000. Code: 10058. [NQODBC] [SQL_STATE: HY000] Odbc driver returned an error (SQLExecDirectW).
Error Details
Error Codes: OPR4ONWY:U9IM8TAC:OI2DL65P
State: HY000. Code: 10058. [NQODBC] [SQL_STATE: HY000] [nQSError: 10058] A general error has occurred. [nQSError: 59014] The requested column does not exist in this table. (HY000)
SQL Issued: SELECT Calendar."Calendar Month Name" saw_0, "Sales Facts"."Amount Sold" saw_1, "Sales Facts"."Last Month Sales" saw_2, "Sales Facts"."Change From Last Month Sales" saw_3, "Sales Facts"."Month To Date Sales" saw_4 FROM SH WHERE Calendar."Calendar Year" = 2001 ORDER BY saw_0
Thanks for your help.

Thanks for your response.
Yes, I have Calendar Month Name in Month level and it is indeed not unique. How do I remove it?
OBIEE version 10.1.3.3.1
I am using the tables from SH schema for testing.
The chronological key is Times Id which to the best of my knowledge is correct.
I tried the following:
Highlight Calendar Month Level > right click > Display Related > Logical Key > Edit > unchecked Use for drilldown.
Moved Calendar Month Name under Times Detail
After This change the Times dim levels are as follows:
Time Total
       Year
            Calendar Year
            Calendar Year ID
          Quarter
               CalendarQuarter Desc
               Calendar Quarter Id
               Month
                     Calendar Month Desc
                     Calendar Month Id
                  Times Detail
                     Time Id
                     Calendar Month Name                        After this change,
(1) I can select Calendar Month Desc, Last Month Sales and Month to Date sales and the results are correct.
(2) However, when I add Amount Sold to the query in (1), I am getting error with following msg:
Error Codes: OPR4ONWY:U9IM8TAC:OI2DL65P
State: HY000. Code: 10058. [NQODBC] [SQL_STATE: HY000] [nQSError: 10058] A general error has occurred. [nQSError: 16001] ODBC error state: S0002 code: 942 message: [Oracle][ODBC][Ora]ORA-00942: table or view does not exist. [nQSError: 16001] ODBC error state: S0002 code: 942 message: [Oracle][ODBC][Ora]ORA-00942: table or view does not exist. [nQSError: 16015] SQL statement execution failed. (HY000)
SQL Issued: SELECT Calendar."Calendar Month Desc" saw_0, "Sales Facts"."Amount Sold" saw_1, "Sales Facts"."Last Month Sales" saw_2, "Sales Facts"."Month To Date Sales" saw_3 FROM SH WHERE Calendar."Calendar Year" = 2001 ORDER BY saw_0
(3) In (1) Replace Calendar Month Desc with Calendar Month Name and the numbers for Month To Date Sales are not correct.
Any suggestion?
Thanks.
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