Display of contribution to an entity in a data form

Question

Hi guys
I'm stuck with a data form which should show base entities contribution to another entity. And they have intermediate entities between like here:
A
__B
____1
____2
__C
____3
____4
So users select elements like A in the Selectable POV and they suppose to see nodes like B.1, B.2, C.3, C.4 in columns. I've written it in a such way in columns:
C1=E{{{@Cur.[Base]}.[Parent]}.[Base]}. But the table generator says syntax is wrong. Is there a way to show all contributing entitities by choosing their parent for the level hier than a node parent?

Answer 1

Hi Mary,
Contribution values work on Nodes which are defined as parent.entity pairs. Therefore, there is no way to directly access the contribution of an entity to an ancestor other than the direct parent.
However, in some special cases you can achieve this in a very limited way, for a clearly set of non-intercompany accounts. What you can do for these special accounts, is to define them as intercompany, without setting up a plug account (you don't want to do elimination on them) and setting up NoInput rules at base level so that only [ICP None] is allowed for input. Then, for these accounts you write in the consolidation rules:
If vICP = "[ICP None]" Then
HS.Con("I#" & HS.Entity.Member , vPCon, "")Else
HS.Con("" , vPCon, "")End Ifso that during proportionalization your numbers will be redirected from [ICP None] (the input) to the ICP member that represents your contributing entity. The "if" statement prevents this code to do the same during consolidating parent entities.
Then at the top Entity level you may select the ICP member of the accounts you have applied the technique to see what the specific entity has contributed to the top. This guarantees correct numbers especially if the percentage used in HS.Con is not always 100%, which means that the value at entity B with ICP = 1will not be the same as the value at entity A with ICP = 1.
Regards,
--Kostas