Rules regarding members of attribute dimensions and their base dimensions.
Before you can save an outline to the server, each attribute dimension must be associated with a standard, sparse dimension as its base dimension.
Attribute dimensions must be the last dimensions in the outline.
Attribute dimensions have a type setting—text, numeric, Boolean, or date. Text is the default setting. Although assigned at the dimension level, the type applies only to the level 0 members of the dimension. See Understanding Attribute Types.
If you remove the attribute tag from a dimension, Essbase removes prefixes or suffixes from its member names. Prefixes and suffixes are not visible in the outline. See Setting Prefix and Suffix Formats for Member Names of Attribute Dimensions.
A base dimension member can have many attributes, but only one attribute from each attribute dimension.
For example, product 100-10 can have size and packaging attributes, but only one size and only one type of packaging.
You cannot associate an attribute with an implied shared member, the child of which is tagged as shared.
Essbase does not support attributes for Hybrid Analysis-enabled members.
You can use attribute values in calculations in the following comparisons: