BPC 7.5 Periodic and QTD issue on YTD Application

Question

All,
Our BPC 7.5 SP 6 YTD BPC application has an issue when running EVDRE reports using Periodic or QTD measures.  YTD EVDRE reports produce correct results.  The Periodic and QTD measures work just fine as long as there is data in every period but as soon as no data is found in a subsequent period the system can not do the calculation.   It does not know how to take 'nothing' and then subtract a prior period value.  It somehow needs to treat the non existance of a record as 0 but it does not do that.  For example if the YTD May balance was 100 and YTD June was 500, if you request the periodic value for June it will take 500 - 100 and give you a 400 result which is correct.  In my second example, let's say YTD May balance was 100 but the balance went to 0 in June.  BPC does not load 0 amount so there is no record in June.  If you run a report requesting the June periodic value you will get no result as it can not handle the situation where there is no record in June.
A while ago I worked with SAP on this and was advised to install OSS note 1405993 which FIXED that problem.  Great news until at a later date our periodic reports stopped finishing and would give the message 'EVDRE encountered an error reading data from the web server'.  It would retry in 30 seconds and error over and over never finishing.  I again reported this to SAP who gave me more efficient Periodic and QTD formulas via note 1505778.  I installed the more efficient formulas and the EVDREs now finished but it brought back the original problem where Periodic/QTD reports would produce incorrect results if there was not data in all periods.  I again reported this to SAP without success.  I have been advised to do the calculation myself in the front end (e.g.EXCEL) which just seems unaccepable.
I have found another thread http://scn.sap.com/thread/3203570 <http://scn.sap.com/thread/3203570 where this same problem occurs in BPC 10.0 - very sad to hear that!  In that thread people have talked about using 'custom' formulas and say they work.  The formulas I have in place are the ones found in note 1505778 to calculate periodic and QTD.  Yes, I created the formulas for the Periodic and QTD measures but I did it based on direction from SAP.  Is that what everyone refers to as a 'custom' measure?  Does anyone have other formulas where they somehow tell the system how to handle the issue if there is no data found in a subsequent period when trying to run periodic or QTD reports on a YTD system?  If so I would be most grateful if you could share them or any other details you have on the subject.  Thank you.
Thank you,
Vicki Shrontz

Answer 1

Easy, just remember that my TIME dimension name is PERIODS and my ACCOUNT dimension name is INACCT:
For YTD cube (in my sample) we have 3 measures:
YTD:
MEMBER [MEASURES].[YTD] AS 'IIF(([%INACCT%].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("2/CPMB/ACCTYPE")="INC" OR [%INACCT%].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("2/CPMB/ACCTYPE")="LEQ"),-([MEASURES].[/CPMB/SDATA], CLOSINGPERIOD([%PERIODS%].[LEVEL02])), ([MEASURES].[/CPMB/SDATA], CLOSINGPERIOD([%PERIODS%].[LEVEL02])))' SOLVE_ORDER=3
PERIODIC:
MEMBER [MEASURES].[YTD] AS 'IIF(([%INACCT%].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("2/CPMB/ACCTYPE")="INC" OR [%INACCT%].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("2/CPMB/ACCTYPE")="LEQ"),-([MEASURES].[/CPMB/SDATA], CLOSINGPERIOD([%PERIODS%].[LEVEL02])), ([MEASURES].[/CPMB/SDATA], CLOSINGPERIOD([%PERIODS%].[LEVEL02])))' SOLVE_ORDER=3
MEMBER [MEASURES].[PERIODIC] AS 'IIF(([%INACCT%].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("2/CPMB/ACCTYPE")="INC" OR [%INACCT%].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("2/CPMB/ACCTYPE")="EXP") AND NOT ([%PERIODS%].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("2/CPMB/PERIOD")="TOTAL" OR  [%PERIODS%].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("2/CPMB/PERIOD")="Q1"  OR [%PERIODS%].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("2/CPMB/PERIOD")="JAN" ), [MEASURES].[YTD]-([MEASURES].[YTD],[%PERIODS%].LAG(1)), [MEASURES].[YTD])' SOLVE_ORDER=3
QTD:
MEMBER [MEASURES].[YTD] AS 'IIF(([%INACCT%].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("2/CPMB/ACCTYPE")="INC" OR [%INACCT%].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("2/CPMB/ACCTYPE")="LEQ"),-([MEASURES].[/CPMB/SDATA], CLOSINGPERIOD([%PERIODS%].[LEVEL02])), ([MEASURES].[/CPMB/SDATA], CLOSINGPERIOD([%PERIODS%].[LEVEL02])))' SOLVE_ORDER=3
MEMBER [MEASURES].[PERIODIC] AS 'IIF(([%INACCT%].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("2/CPMB/ACCTYPE")="INC" OR [%INACCT%].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("2/CPMB/ACCTYPE")="EXP") AND NOT ([%PERIODS%].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("2/CPMB/PERIOD")="TOTAL" OR  [%PERIODS%].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("2/CPMB/PERIOD")="Q1"  OR [%PERIODS%].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("2/CPMB/PERIOD")="JAN" ), [MEASURES].[YTD]-([MEASURES].[YTD],[%PERIODS%].LAG(1)), [MEASURES].[YTD])' SOLVE_ORDER=3
MEMBER [MEASURES].[QTD] AS 'IIF(([%INACCT%].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("2/CPMB/ACCTYPE")="INC" OR [%INACCT%].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("2/CPMB/ACCTYPE")="EXP"),IIF([%PERIODS%].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("2/CPMB/TILEVEL")="QUARTER",[MEASURES].[PERIODIC],IIF([%PERIODS%].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("2/CPMB/TILEVEL")="MONTH" OR [%PERIODS%].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("2/CPMB/TILEVEL")="WEEK" OR [%PERIODS%].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("2/CPMB/TILEVEL")="DAY",SUM(PERIODSTODATE([%PERIODS%].CURRENTMEMBER.PARENT.LEVEL, [%PERIODS%].CURRENTMEMBER),[MEASURES].[PERIODIC]),NULL)),[MEASURES].[YTD])' SOLVE_ORDER = 3
B.R. Vadim