ClearBlock command in an HBR

I have the following calc script, which validates. I want to move it to an HBR (enhanced calc script) so I can add prompts, but I get a syntax error on "ClearBlock Empty" command. The error is "Encountered Empty, was expecting, All, Dynamic..." Looking at HBR documentation, it appears that the ClearBlock in HBR's is different then in Calc Scripts. We are using 9.3.1.1.
What the calc is trying to do is first clear any blocks that I created using the "Assessment Block Creation" account, and then clear any other empty blocks that users might have created.
I know that I shouldn't be creating extra blocks to start with, but the nature of the data (allocations based on the cummulative results of other allocations) and number of intersections make the method of creating extra blocks and then going back and cleaning up the fastest way.
Any ideas on how to use the "ClearBlock Empty" in an HBR?
Thanks in advance.
SET UPDATECALC OFF;
SET CALCPARALLEL 4;
SET AGGMISSG ON;
FIX("Local", "HSP_InputValue", @IDescendants("ENTITY",0), @Relative("RCVG DEPT", 0), @RELATIVE ("Tot_Snd_Pool", 0),
@Relative("Tot_Rec_Pool",0) ,@IDESCENDANTS("TOTAL_CC"), "Assessment Block Creation")
ClearBlock All;
ENDFIX;
CLEARBLOCK EMPTY;

Does it just fail to validate or does it fail to run?
I do not believe HBR validates on execution it just sends it right to Essbase after it has performed it's variable updates.
I have seen other commands that were valid in Essbase that HBR syntax checking didn't like.
Regards,
-John
Edited by: Jbooth on Apr 1, 2009 1:36 PM

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