Friday, March 6, 2020

EPBCS and OAC Metadata Issue

It has been a while since my last post...a kind of writers block.

This week I have been working on demo content for upcoming webcast on working with EPM Cloud content in OAC DV and BI Dashboards.  And I ran into issues where members in my Account Dimension where not showing up in Analysis or Filters so I thought I would share what I found.

First I had imported my EPBCS app with the pre-built modules into my Physical Layer.


I moved the whole app to the BMM Layer


When I looked at the Business Diagram I see the 9 Cubes

kind of ugly mess...but there are 9 logical stars

To create the Presentation Layer I righted clicked and selected Create Subject Area for Logical Stars and Snowflakes


Voila, I have 9 subject areas.

The work I want to do is with Employ demographics so I will be working with the EPBCS - OEP_REP subject area.  I started working in DV and setting a filter on Account.  I quickly noticed I was not finding the Account I was interested in so I switched to Classic Home and created an analysis with the Account Hierarchy Column.


I am not seeing the Account structure that is what is in REP cube.


So back to the RPD.

This time I brought each cube into the BMM layer individually.


And when I went back to Analysis of the OEP_REP and checked the Account Hierarchy


And it matches the cube.


So something is happening in the RPD when working with multiple cubes in a BMM Layer object.

My recommendation...Import the App and create individual BMM Layer objects per cube.