USE OF ZERO AND BLANK CELLS IN CALCS

Hello Everybody,
I'm making a new script logic that acumulates the values month by month, it means that february=januaryfebruary, march=januaryfeb+mar, etc. Everything was workin fine, until i had some values in blank in few months, in those cases the calc ignored them and stops the acumulation.
For example if i have info only from jan to sep, the calc doesn't show any value for oct,nov and dec. What i want in those cases is that the data obtained for sep be the same in oct, nov and dec, because in theory the sum should be +zero(which is the value contained in blank cells right?)
Does anybody knows why is this calc stopping at this level?
Thanks in advance!

Hi,
Do you run the script from Data package? if not
check
XDIM_MEMBERSET is very important to fix the scope for the calculation.
To avoid this system reaction you can change the coding and clearly define
which account shall be taken into account when doing the calculation
independent if one of the defined member has or has not changed its value.
You do this via Memberset statements.
other approach is YTD measures
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Mehul
Edited by: Mehul Shah on Dec 16, 2010 2:44 PM

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