ALLOCATION not working

Question

Hi,
I have an account named "Percent" for which I have loaded values for every month of the year. I have another account named "Temp" for which I have loaded an allocation amount for the period "2009.INP".
I am trying to allocate to an account "Study".
I have written the following logic in the default.lgf file
*RUNALLOCATION
*FACTOR=USING/100
*DIM Account WHAT=TEMP; WHERE=Study; USING=PERCENT
*DIM Time WHAT=2009.INP; WHERE=BAS(2009.TOTAL); USING=<<<
*ENDALLOCATION
The allocation is not happening when I run an input schedule and check in a report.
Please help!
Thanks,
Prasanth.

Answer 1

Your allocation seems a bit too simple.
Where is the Entity dim? You are allocating accounts over time for what purpose?  Product, company, region, etc..
*ALLOCATION
     *NAME=BUSW3001
     *FACTOR=USING
     *DIM ACCOUNTDIM     WHAT=OPERATING_EXPENSES;         WHERE=A_BUOPEX_SALES;  USING=A_BUSALES_PER
     *DIM ENTITYDIM          WHAT=BAS(MAXIM);                           WHERE=CO_1001;                   USING=CO_1001
     *DIM PROFIT_COST_CENTER    WHAT=[PROFITCENTER]='3001';  WHERE=>>>;  USING=BAS(PL_DIV01),BAS(PL_DIV02)
     *DIM DATASRC           WHAT=BU_PL;                                    WHERE=BU_EXP_ALLOC;     USING=<<<
     *DIM CURRENCYDIM    WHAT=USD,LC;                                  WHERE=<<<;                        USING=LC
*ENDALLOCATION
This allocation takes the operating expenses from a series of cost centers with certain property called PROFITCENTER and allocates those dollars to 2 different rollups ( See the DIM PROFIT_COST_CENTER line) for product lines and assigning it to a single account of A_BUOPEXSALES.
The rates are stored for each particular Product line in the account A_BUSALES_PER in the company CO_1001 accross time which is being passed to the logic.  Since the rates are already decimal based, you can short cut the *FACTOR to just *USING.  All the parameters in the *USING tell the allocation where to find the rates.  Make note of the >>> and <<<< to note the direction of the allocation as well. Think of them as FROM and TO
If you have access to the SQL server, you can use the logic output and run the SQL calls manually to see where the discrepancy is occurring.  Usually it is where you are telling it to find the rates is the problem.
Hope that helps.