Calculate Data Form - Business Rule

I am a little confused on how the default "Calculate Data Form" business rule works which is available when we create a new data form.
When run, does it calculate the entire cube as in it works like - CALC ALL; ? Or does it just calculate the dimensions/members specific to the form. I always thought that it is specific calculation for the data form - which considers the selection that we have in our POV, Page and rows and columns and it doesn't calculate the entire cube. Please correct me if I am wrong.
If anyone has any resourse that has more about it, please share the link or information. It will be a big help.
Please let me know.
Thank you!
~ Adella

Thank you so much John for responding to my question.
So, if I understood it right you were telling me that it doesn't calculate the entire database, but it only calculates the subtotals for those specific member combinations that are there on the dataform and displays it on the form after the business rule is launched. Hope now I understood it right.
Actually, I am running into an issue where I am just changing two cells on my dataform, then running the "Calculate Data Form" to see the totals changing accordingly but it is taking way too long than expected and also it is not rendering the right result. I am not sure what is causing this delay if it were only to calculate things specific to the data form and show the results.

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Greetings,
I'm testing a data form with the default setting "calculate data forms" setting turned on and the same data form with it turned off. There is a significant difference in save time when the default setting is not included. I looked up the definition of what "calculate data forms" is doing, to calculate subtotals, but my data form does not have any subtotals that have been programmed into it, but does pull on dynamic calc members. Does anyone have an idea why there would be a difference, in some forms it is taking 10x longer. Not sure if this setting should ever be used in this scenario.
Thanks!
Joe

Joe,
I have never seen a "professional" Hyperion developer leave this feature on. Why would you let Planning try to figure out what needs to be calculated and then let it dynamically build a script under the covers? If your sub-totals are being calculated dynamically, then there's no need to use this feature. If they aren't, build a focused business rule and associate it with the save of the form. That way, you know exactly what is being calculated and how.
It's a bit like using CALC ALL. The feature is there . . . but in my opinion, it's a crutch for inexperienced resources.
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Smartview Forms - Business Rule Execution

Users edit data within Planning, but don't see changes when refreshing in SmartView until a user executes business rules {Aggregation rule} on the Plan2 cube within Planning [via internet explorer].
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buiseness rule can be executed from smart view as well but before that i would like to tell you that smart view can be connected to
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Can I pass the selected member at page dimension to form business rule?

I have a business rule which will be executed when the form get loaded, the business rule is very complex, so I want to narrow down the calculation by passing the selected member at page dimension to the business rule.
For example, I have year as page dimension, and I only want to calculate the selected year at one time? How can I do it?
I know runtime prompt, but I don't think it's a good way, since you need to select again.
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Tony

You can use a variable and a run time prompt.
You can set the business rule options in planning to "Use Members on Form" and "Hide Run time prompt"
This way the page/pov member will be passed into the business and into the variable.
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http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

IC data/booking - business rule

Hi BPC masters,
I am new with BPC and I have a couple of questions about IC data/booking and its business rule. I am sorry if it seems too basic.
1) In the guide BPC440 and other guides available on the internet, we could see they are using ICDIFF01 in debit account in the IC business rule (see picture). What is that account ? Its hierarchy/parents ? Is there any screenshot to see what is its structure ?
2) How does ICDATA retrieve records ? Does it simply find data for AR/AP and P&L where an intercompany dimension is recorded ?
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Dat

Hi Dat,
1. ICDIFF01 is the specific dimension base member user need to create to store the result data of ICBOOKING.
2. ICDATA calculate the results based on the business rule you defined and the source data in intercompany.
3. You can create your owne business rule & dimension members to meet your specific requirement(P&L). BPC440 is simply an example.
The guide BPC440 is simply an example. You need to customize all the dimension/business rule and logics according to your customer's fact business. So I suggest you not focus on the financial meaning of the account name or rule name too much in the example.
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In Planning, I've created a composite web form. Although I've selected the "Use Members on Data Form" box in the business rule properties with in the composite form, when I launch the rule the prompt box doesn't show the division that is represented on the current form, it pre-populates the last division that was used when launching a business rule in a normal web form. This works just fine when I'm in a normal web form, just not a composite. Any ideas of what might be going on? Is there a setting somewhere that I'm missing?

I would be careful using business rules in composite forms. There are a bit unstable as composite forms are quite buggy. What you can do is try to apply the 9.3.1.1.8 patch release and see if this does not resolve your issues. This patch covers alot of bugs in 9.3.1 (which I assume is your version) including business rules stability with composite forms and substitution variable usage. Hope this helps point you in the right direction.
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Display of data after Business Rule Execution

Hi Gurus
We are using 11.1.2 and experiencing few problems with some of out Business Rules. The problem is, BR executed successfully and the resultant data is not displaying in the target form. As a workaround, we put a dummy value in any of the target's combination and re-execute the BR, this time BR gets populate the target cell. Pls advice what sort of problem is this???
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It could be down to the business rule not creating blocks, by entering dummy data then you are creating the blocks and the rule will run as expected.
Have a look at this post :- Re: Busines rule Issue
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http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

Multiple Pop-ups while saving composite data form with rules attached

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How to submit the Data with Business rule auto executed with VBA in excel?

Anyone knows how can I submit the data into planning with the business rule auto executed in planning?
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I have question regarding security in business rules, the problem is that we have, lets say, 10 users who have all access to a tasklist, but not all of them have access to the same forms / business rules. The ideal would be that if a user has no access to a form, it doesnt show in the tasklist, but he gets to see the form in the tasklist and when he opens it he receives an error message. We can get the user to accept that. But with business rules, the case is different: when a user clicks on a business rule on the tasklist he has no access to, instead of receiving a message denying access, he gets a screen with all the business rules he does have access to, and checkboxes to select the plan type the BR will run on, which is unacceptable and confusing. There are many users and creating custom tasklist for each one of them would be too hard to mantain. Is there a way to achieve a better solution for the user? Thanks in advance for your comments.

Hi,
I don't think of any other way.
The user have access to task list so it will show all tasks, and if the user don't have access to any particular web form it will throw an error informing same only once user open the web form.
For Business Rule it will show all rule/calc scripts for which user have access too, if the user don't have access to rule attached to that task.
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Thanks EW for your answer,
YesI could use SmartList even if i think it's very tough to handle. My experience on using SmartList in caclc script is not so good. I try to enter in details of my requirement:
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