When you use the attribute feature, Essbase establishes default member names; for example, the system-defined True and False precludes other member names of True and False. You can change these system-defined names for the database. Date attributes and numeric attributes also can be duplicated. To avoid duplicate name confusion, you can establish settings for qualifying member names in attribute dimensions. The outline does not show the fully qualified attribute names, but you can see the full attribute names anywhere you select members, such as when you define partitions or select information to be retrieved.
Define the member name settings before you define or build the attribute dimensions. Changing the settings after the attribute dimensions and members are defined could result in invalid member names.
The following sections describe how to work with the names of members of attribute dimensions: