Conditional mapping in the transformation file

Question

Hi
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to perform more complex mapping when loading transactional data? I have 2 requirements:
1. When the Profit Centre is invalid, set it to a default value of "9999".  Where an invalid Profit Centre is a Profit Centre that does not exist as a valid dimension member.
2. When the Profit Centre is null, then set it to a default value based on the Entity value.
    For example:
    When the Profit Centre is null and the Entity = 100, set the profit centre to 1000.
    When the Profit Centre is null and the Entity = 200, set the profit centre to 2038. etc
Ideally I would like to define the mapping rules in either transformation or conversion files.
Regards, Sharon

Answer 1

What I can think right now is
Case 1:
If you're with BPC 7.0 NW, there is no option to accept not existing member and store it with a default value(Correct me if I'm wrong).
But you can enable VALIDATERECORDS=YES in the transformation file to output the rejected records with wrong dimension member into a file. Since we need all the rejected records and keep processing the current import, set MAXREJECTCOUNT=-1.
Next do additional task in your import package to rename all the rejected Profit Center with the default value (9999) and do re-import again.
Limitation: this will work only if you want to do fix on 1 dimension  in this case the Profit Center. If you need to do fix on multiple dimension, this would not work because the rejected records could be caused by any dimension. So you're lucky in your case.
If you're with BPC 7.5 NW, use DM BADI to do what you want.
Case 2:
You can use IF in your mapping section, for example:
ProfitCenter=*IF(ProfitCenter = *str(),*IF(Entity=100,*str(1000),...),ProfitCenter)
Halomoan