Allocation Question

Question

Hi
I have a script which allocates values across a dimension's base members but some members cannot be accessed by certain users of this script. Therefore, the user's who do not have access to all the base members of the dimension in question cannot run the script.
Here is the script which I am referring to:
*RUNALLOCATION
*FACTOR=-1*USING
*DIM ACCLABOUR           WHAT=WIP_VOL_FINAL;                  WHERE=HOURS_REQ;             USING=WEIGHTED_KG
*DIM PRODUCT                WHAT=BAS(ALL_BU);                    WHERE=<<<;                          USING=NOPRODUCT
*DIM ENTITY                    WHAT=BAS(TOT_ENTITY);              WHERE=<<<;                        USING=NOENTITY
*DIM MACHINE                   WHAT=NOMACHINE;                       WHERE=>>>;                       USING=BAS(TOT_PROCESS)
*DIM WIP                     WHAT=BAS(TOT_WIP);              WHERE=<<<;                             USING=<<<
*ENDALLOCATION
*COMMIT
The line which refers to the dimension which is secured is:
*DIM ENTITY                    WHAT=BAS(TOT_ENTITY);              WHERE=<<<;                        USING=NOENTITY
I want to know if it is possible to write some code that will check which members the users running the script has access to and then allocate the values to those members.
Please let me know if you need any more info on the above.
Thanks,
Jamie

Answer 1

Hi Roberto
I asked this because earlier in this script (I omitted it from the first post as it was not relevant) we have used %ENTITY_SET% like so:
*XDIM_MEMBERSET ENTITY=NOENTITY,%ENTITY_SET%
*XDIM_MEMBERSET DATASRC=INPUT
*XDIM_MEMBERSET ACCLABOUR=IDEAL_KGL,IDEAL_KG,MACHINE_WEIGHTINGS,STND_KGL,STND_KG,TOT_MAN,ACT_PROD_MACHINE,MAC_RUN_ACH,ACT_PROD_KG_HOUR,ACT_TMAN
*WHEN ACCLABOUR
*IS "MAC_RUN_ACH"
*REC(FACTOR=-1*GET(ACCLABOUR="TOT_MAN"),ACCLABOUR="ACT_TMAN")
*ENDWHEN
*COMMIT
On inspecting the log file I can see that this query looks at members NOENTITY & <member from parameter screen> for the ENTITY dimension.
There doesn't appear to be any INCLUDE statements in this code and yet it seems to select the members we want. So with that in mind would the same work if I re-wrote the allocation section of the code like so replacing the BAS(TOT_ENTITY) with %ENTITY_SET%:
*RUNALLOCATION
*FACTOR=-1*USING
*DIM ACCLABOUR           WHAT=WIP_VOL_FINAL;                  WHERE=HOURS_REQ;             USING=WEIGHTED_KG
*DIM PRODUCT                WHAT=%ENTITY_SET%;                    WHERE=<<<;                          USING=NOPRODUCT
*DIM ENTITY                    WHAT=BAS(TOT_ENTITY);              WHERE=<<<;                        USING=NOENTITY
*DIM MACHINE                   WHAT=NOMACHINE;                       WHERE=>>>;                       USING=BAS(TOT_PROCESS)
*DIM WIP                     WHAT=BAS(TOT_WIP);              WHERE=<<<;                             USING=<<<
*ENDALLOCATION
*COMMIT
Thanks,
Jamie