Hi experts,
I have a tricky request which I would like to have your opinions on.
Our business department wants to combine information form different areas - so far nothing special, right?
Say we have
Cube A with Characteristics C1, and KF1
Cube B with Characteristics C1, C2 and KF2
Cube C with Characteristics C1, C3 and KF3
So their desired result would be:
C1 C2 C3 KF1 KF2 KF3
The result should now show any "#"' lines they would like to have it "on one line".
Obviously B does not have Char C2 and C3 so there needs to be "trick".
I thought about putting the three cubes into a multi provider. In the query I use constant selection for the KF´s 1-3 for Char C2 and C3.
When I did this the system did not suppress the # anymore. I found a note saying this is a "normal" behavior since I don´t have a leading KF for characteristic combination generation anymore.
Okay fine.. so I thought about excluding the "#" lines constantly.. but in Cube B not all C1-Combinations of the other cubes are contained - but they need to be display too.
So I guess I have a typical Left Outer Join scenario, am I right?
Now what can I do?
- Using Infoset? This would mean to include 13 DSOs.. not sure about the performance then. What do you think?
- Creating a new Infocube? Thats the least I would like to do....
Anyone any Idea????
Thanks a lot in advance.
Oliver