1. Database Administrator's Guide for Oracle Essbase
  2. Dimension and Member Properties
  3. Add Comments to Dimensions and Members

Add Comments to Dimensions and Members

You can add comments to Essbase dimensions and members. Comments can contain 255 characters maximum.

To add a member comment using the Essbase web interface, open the outline for editing, select a member, and edit its general properties. Enter text into the Description field as appropriate.

If you are using an application workbook or Cube Designer to add or edit a member comment, update the COMMENT property on the relevant dimension worksheet.


The editable COMMENT property follows member name and ID but precedes aliases, in an application workbook. The dimension member Product has a comment "Beverage hierarchy."

If you use REST API to edit the outline, you would update the value of the comment property of mbrInfo to be the comment string, when performing a member add or update action, as documented in the endpoint for Run Batch Outline Edit.