Defining Member Name Display in the Member Selector

Data sources: Essbase, Financial Management, Hyperion Enterprise

You can select Member Name Display options from the Member Selection dialog box. For example, if the provider you are connecting to permits the use of duplicate member names, you can choose whether to display member names with or without their descriptions or aliases.

  To select how member names are displayed:

  1. Display the Member Selection dialog box, as described in the Selecting Members from the Member Selector.

  2. From Member Selection, to change the dimension, click the Dimension Selector button and select a dimension.

  3. From Member Selection, click the Options button, then select Member Name Display, and then select an option:

    • Member Name Only to display qualified names

    • Member Name and Description to display qualified names and descriptions (aliases) in the same cell. (Hyperion Enterprise data source only)

    • Description Only to display aliases only. (Not available if connected to Hyperion Enterprise data source)

      Note:

      If you select Description Only in free-form mode, qualified names are displayed initially. After you manually add, remove, or edit any comments and refresh, aliases are displayed.

  4. Click OK.

    The setting takes effect after you refresh or perform a drill operation.