Just a quick post here. Did you know there is a place to get your Essbase questions answered? It is Oracle's Customer Connect and it is currently under utilized, but it is monitored by Essbase development. I'm guessing because it is hard to find. Well, I'll take that excuse away from you. Just follow my simple directions below.
To get to it, you can sue the URL https://cloudcustomerconnect.oracle.com/pages/home
(or to bypass the home page https://cloudcustomerconnect.oracle.com/resources/6c34f3f3a5/summary)
You will be prompted to log in with your Oracle ID, If you don't have one, create it, it is free.