New to OneStream - Account Dimension build

[DavidT]

Hi,

I'm new to OneStream and wondering if this Account rollup is possible using inherited Account dimensions?

Cube 1 is the Main cube and needs to show all Accounts, but the Cube2&3 should only show & operate on a subset of Accounts within this Hierarchy

Thanks for your help!

Sincerely,
David

[Krishna]

Hi - It can be achieved using the extensibility, There should be 3 levels of extensibility and each cube should assign the respective account in the Cube Dimension settings.

[DavidT]

This seems the most direct way of doing it:

Cube1:

Cube 2:

Cube 3:

Anything that is common aross all 3 cubes, I put on the parent Cube1 Hierarchy... but my question is really does Cube 1 allow inputs on the lower levels? 

Does Cube 1 even see the detailed accounts? and/or does Cube 2 and Cube 3 see the parent accounts defined in Cube 1?

[JackLacava]

Cube 2 and 3 will see parent Accounts, they are automatically aggregated.

Cube 1 will only see data for DT_REVENUE and DT_COST, it will not know anything about lower levels.

[DavidT]

Hi, thanks for the reply. Is there a way to have Cube 1 inherit from both Cube 2 and Cube 3? So that it sees all of the accounts? When I try to do this, I have to rename common members so that it doesn't throw an error saying that the Account Member already exists.

[DavidT]

I've built an alt view of the Account dimension (I tried to define relationships across dimensions, but was not able to do so, so instead of a top-down approach, I went bottom-up. 

The issues that I encountered were:

1. I could not add Members with the same name to different structures if they were already defined in another dimension rollup (say sibling Dimensions that don't inherit)... I would have to change the member name.

2. I could not add relationships between two different Dimensions (siblings of one another).

3. I could not have a Child Dimension inherit from 2 Dimensions.

So this may work, I'm not sure.

1st Level (Cube 3) - Lowest level

2nd Level (Cube 2) Add some Revenue Accounts and some Cost Accounts

Level 3 (Cube 1) Really the main cube where all data should be visible