Technical data

Chapter 9 Creating Hierarchies

GBL

Asia

Europe

India

China

Bangalore

Calcutta

Delhi

Mumbia

Beijing

Kashi

Lianyungang

Example of a tree’s parent-child relati onships

Even though the highest level node is GBL, which is the root node of the tree, you can select the India node to

serve as the hierarchy root member for this dimension. When you create the hierarchy root member out of the

India node, only the children of India exist in the hierarchy.

If you

have not attached a tree to the dimension, a h ierarchy root member still exists for that dimension if

you sp

ecified a root member name for that dimension. If you have not attached a tree to the dimension

and yo

u have not entered a value in the Total Member Name field, neither a hierarchy root member nor

ahie

rarchy exists for that dimension.

See C

hapter 6, “Creating Dimensions,” Defining Dimension Properties, page 48.

Orphan Members

An or

phan member is any member that does not map to a child of a parent node in the tree.

For each orphan member, PeopleSoft Analytic Calculation Engine:

• Adds each orphan member to the hierarchy root member.