Hi,

I am trying to use attribute members grouping and getting an error. I have a
natural hierarchy that looks like:

Sector
Industry
Exposure
Position

The Position level has many members that I would like to place in buckets of
equal size. However when I set the DiscretizationMethod of Position
attribute to Automatic and try to deploy the database I get an error: "Error
in the metadata manager. The 'Position' discretisized attribute cannot have
related attributes". The error is only reported during deployment. It's a
natural hierarchy with attribute relations defined so that Position
attribute relates to Exposure attribute and so on. It's a 64-bit instance of
MSAS 2005 with SP2 CTP applied. If discreditized attributes cannot have
related attributes then how does one place them into a natural hierarchy? Or
maybe I am doing something wrong? I hope someone can shed some light on this
issue.

Thanks in advance,

Alex

I understand it's not logical to use the attribute hierarchy as a user
hierarchy level
when AS cannot determine which Exposure member a certain Position group
belongs to.

For example, two position members in the same group can have different
Exposure members as a parent member.

How about adding a dummy attribute to group Position members explicitly
instead?

Ohjoo

"svega" <krichev (AT) bellatlantic (DOT) net> wrote

I totally agree with this. There does not appear to be a way for AS to
figure the relationship. However coming from AS2000 world I was looking for
something similar in AS2005. Thanks for the suggestion. It looks like
explicit grouping is the only way to go.



Alex



"Ohjoo Kwon" <ojkwon (AT) olap (DOT) co.kr> wrote