Filtering Compound Attributes

Scenario:
Attribute1 is a compound key attribute with a ginormous number of values. In fact, there are so many values that when you attempt to see all its elements, you get a spool space error.

You also have a list of a few hundred elements (ID1 and ID2) belonging to this attribute and you somehow must build a report that would only show results for these elements.

Deal breaker:
As mentioned before, manually selecting the elements is out of the question. Not only does the spool space error occurs, but just imagine handpicking hundreds of values.

Having two filters, one for each ID, in which the appropriate values are entered using the “In List” option is also a bad idea. You will get much more than you expect, regardless if there is an “AND” or an “OR” operator between the two filters.

Solution:
As far as I tested, qualifying on multiple IDs of the same attribute is not possible in MicroStrategy, not even in version 9. Theoretically the element qualification is what we are looking for, but as stated before there are certain limitations.

The only solution that I can think of is to create a FreeForm SQL Report. Writing the WHERE block should be no problem, as you can generate it in MS Excel based on the two columns… something like =CONCATENATE("OR (a11.Attribute_ID1 = ",A1," AND a11.Attribute_ID2= ",B1,")").

If you know of better/faster ways, please share.


Update:
A better solution was presented to me by AK.
Simply create an additional attribute DESC form as a concatenation between the two IDs, separated by a pipeline character. From here on it gets much simpler.