Current Keyword in Formula in Financial Reporting (v. 11)

Can I use the current keyword in a formula? Trying to calculate % of revenue for each account on the rows (periods and scenarios across the columns).
I have accounts set up as Children of.... so formula row reference needs to change dynamically when the users drill in on the HTML report.
ie. [ cur,A ] / [ 7,A ]
Ther Verify is failing on the 'A' but when I run the report it gives a #REF error.
Any solutions or other approach to achieve this are appreciated!

current is valid in formulas, but I don't think you need it in yours. Try just omitting the row, that will force the report to look at the row it is in. There are some funky tricks to dealing with expanding rows.

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Hi,
Thanks for the update.
Actually, my problem got resolved. After analyzing the debug file myself, I narrowed down the error as below
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Has anyone seen this problem before? Is this maybe a setting that needs to be changed? etc...?
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Of several users who have tested this functionality, I only have 1 user who is experiencing this problem, however we can't figure out what's wrong... Here is what is happening:
1. Run a financial report from the web-portal using HTML preview
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6. he clicks on "ok" and the result is what looks like an excel pivot table except is says "error" in one of the cells and then an adjacent cell says: Logon Failed. User Name must not be empty.
No matter which combination of the options he chooses, he sees the same result.
In addition, I know it is not a problem with his ID b/c he can run the report AND export to excel just fine when he does it from my computer!
Has anyone seen this problem before? Is this maybe a setting that needs to be changed? etc...?
FYI - we are in the final stages of migrating to system 9 so our current configuration is as follows: Financial Reports / Workspace version 9.3.1 however his run time client on is version 7.1.2 and the essbase cube is version 9.3.1. I have several other people who have run the same report, against the same essbase cube, also using the ver 7 RTC and it works fine.
Any ideas???
Thanks in advance for any help!
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Edited by: user638718 on Apr 7, 2009 5:28 PM

Hi,
Web Analysis is definitely aimed more towards adhoc reporting, it is just general adhoc reporting you can also use the excel addin and smartview.
I take it you are already licensed to use web analysis ?
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http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

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Is Hyperion Financial Report 11.1.1.3 compatible on Windows 7 x64 VM?
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Yes, it is supported. You can see it in the EPM System Basic Platform tab here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-foundation/oracle-hyperion-epm-system-certific-2-128342.xls
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Cannot Launch Financial Reporting Studio [ID 1115073.1]
Modified 19-APR-2012 Type HOWTO Status PUBLISHED
In this Document
Goal
Fix
Applies to:
Hyperion BI+ - Version 11.1.2.0.00 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
***Checked for relevance on 20-Apr-2012***
Goal
When you try to launch the Financial Reporting Studio on a Vista 32bit desktop workstation, you receive the following error:
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Errors
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9.3.1 Hyperion Financial Report Formulas not populating

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Edited by: user8009251 on 14.04.2010 00:45
Edited by: user8009251 on 14.04.2010 00:46

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Hello,
I have a financial reporting question and would like to have your inputs in order to achieve what I am trying to do.
I have a report with two grids – grid 1 & grid 2. And there is a formula row in grid 2 that is “change between the two years” worth of data. The year and period combination is in the page of the grids.
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Hello,
for 2 years, I am struggling with following-
we have very detailled (detailled in 2 or 3 dimensions - let's say here: CBU and CostCenter ) reports, which run very long
in order to give user the overview/total as well, we want to give the total over all 2 or 3 dimensions only
the user should be allowed to choose 1 or more values (CBUs) via user prompt
current workaround is to have 2 user prompts (1 for detailled combinations) and (1 for total) and asking the user to fill the CBU 2 times
if user is not chosing same CBU(s), then report is inconsistant:
as many people have to use dozens of values and because there is no select all/ deselect all function - the handling is very annoying for the users.
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...........................................Dimension 1...........................................Dimension 2
Row 1 (of report definition): Descendants of Prompt for CBUs..............Descendants of Costcenter
Row 2 (of report definition): Prompt for CBUs....................................Costcenter Total
by this, we get a sample output like this: (Projects are the level 0 members of CBUs in CBU dimension)
...........................................Project A from CBU I.....................CostCenter X...............50
...........................................Project A from CBU I.....................CostCenter Y...............20
...........................................Project B from CBU II....................CostCenter X...............10
...........................................Project C from CBU III...................CostCenter Z...............100
...........................................Project D from CBU III...................CostCenter X...............200
...........................................CBU I..........................................CostCenter Total..........70
...........................................CBU II.........................................CostCenter Total..........10
...........................................CBU III........................................CostCenter Total..........300
Problem is:
I would like to define for
Row 2 Prompt for CBUs
and for
Row 1 Descendants of Same as Row 2
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I tried to combine *Same as Row 2* with *RelativeMember & Offset -1* definition in reporting is then: Relative to Same As Row 2 offset by -1
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unfortunately, it does not allow the report designer to allow either 1 or many values
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If I understand correctly you would only have one CBU on any given report.
Instead of prompting for Row 2 and pulling the totals from the Outline. You could delete your current Row2 and have the report provide the totals based on the data results from ROW 1. Insert a row formula for Row 2 and sum the results for that paticular column.
Formula:
Sum([1])
Edited by: ronnie on Apr 21, 2011 9:51 AM
Edited by: ronnie on Apr 21, 2011 9:52 AM

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