Essbase views some characters in the data source as formatting characters only. Essbase ignores the characters listed in Table 39:
Table 39. Valid Formatting Characters
Formatting Character | Description |
---|---|
Multiple IBM PC graphic double underlines (ASCII character 205) | |
Multiple IBM PC graphic single underlines (ASCII character 196) |
Ignored fields do not affect the data load or dimension build.
For example, Essbase ignores the equal signs in the following data source and loads the other fields normally.
East Actual "100-10" Sales Marketing ===== ========= Jan 10 8 Feb 21 16