Creating Rules in HFM.

Question

While writing a business rule for HFM, in the sub calculate(), if I do not mention the entire intersection does the calcultaion run for the current POV or does it run for all intersections?
Ex,
If I write a script HS.Clear"A#11110"
will the A#11110 be cleared for current POV or for all entities and scenarios and oter dimensions?

Answer 1

Lijoy,
If you don't use Select Case or IF/Then or some similar mechanism to control the execution of the clear statement, then the statement will execute for whichever Scenario, Entity, Year, Time Period and Value dimension member is in the user's POV. We will often use if/then statement to control where a formula executes. For example, say you wanted to clear the input-level data for a particular account for only base-level entities in your Budget scenario for years after 2007. You could do that by doing something like this:
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pov_entity = HS.Entity.Member
pov_value = HS.Value.Member
pov_scenario = HS.Scenario.Member
pov_year = HS.Year.Member
vIs_Base = HS.Entity.IsBase ("","")
If pov_scenario = "Budget" and pov_year > "2007" and pov_value = "<Entity Currency>" and vIs_Base = True Then
HS.Clear("A#1010")
End If
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The variable declarations before the IF statement are just some standard items we put at the top of our rules file so that we don't have to write HS.Entity.Member every time we want to know what the current entity is - you can just pov_entity instead (this is supposed to be faster as well). Hope this helps!
Best Regards,
Bobby