Details for Members with Multiple Parents Report

This dialog box dialog box displays all hierarchy level members that have more than one parent member. Use this dialog box to do the following:

View the source data for the level
Select a method for correcting the data
View the SQL statement that returns the data
Export the SQL statement for the selected correction method
Refresh the data from the database table

The dialog box displays the database table to which the level is mapped. It also displays the results of a SQL query that selects or calculates the following values.

Level member
Parent of the member
Description of the member
Description of the parent member
Number of occurrences of the member that has the parent description
Percentage of members that have the parent description

Find: Finds a row that has the specified characters. Enter one or more characters in the field. Click Go to find the first row that contains the characters. Click Go again to find the next matching row.

Show Detail SQL: Shows the SQL query that returns the results displayed.

Refresh icon : Refreshes the data from the database table.

If data correction methods are available, the Data Correction Method controls become active. These methods update the rows for all members that have multiple parents.

Data Correction Method:

Update Parent Member with Most Common Parent: This option sets the parent member and parent description to the parent member and description that exists in the most number of rows for each member. For members that have an equal number of rows with the same different parent, this method applies the first parent value to the rows for that member.
Update Parent Member with Selected Parent: This option sets the parent member and parent description to the parent member and parent description in the selected row.
Concatenate Member and Parent: This option sets the member to the member plus the parent member, optionally separated by the specified characters.
- Separator: One or more characters to place between the member and parent values. The default value is a comma and a space.
Note:
This method is not available when the data type of the member column is incompatible with the resulting value.

Tip:

When you make members unique by concatenating the member and parent member values (for example, city New York and state New York concatenated as New York, New York at the city level), you should first apply the method to upper levels of a hierarchy and then work down the hierarchy. Rerun the validation report after each change to the dimension table.

The SQL statement for the correction method appears below the option.

Export: Exports the SQL for the data correction method to SQL Developer Worksheet or to the clipboard.

To Worksheet: Exports the SQL for the data correction method to SQL Developer Worksheet.
To Clipboard: Exports the SQL for the data correction method to the clipboard.