Financial Analyzer : YTD figures

Question

We have recently implemented OFA at our site where reports have been defined for management reporting. When we try to access a YTD column in a report for Year 2000 months, the system gives following error : "An error occurred setting up data for the report. Consider changing the definition to access a different selection." We have no such problem for Year 1999.
We have tried all the suggested solution by our off-shore consultant without any luck. Such as the YTD_OFFSETVAL has all values stored in it.
I would appreciate any assistance to resolve this problem.

Answer 1

Marianne,
Regret the delay in thanking you for the response. The problem was somewhere else.
We have now resolved the problem. GL_TIME1.OFFSET variable data was not submitted to Shared database.
Earlier Our consultant had responded as follows :
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"There will not be any Y2K problem in the YTD calculation. Infact, this same logic is used to calculate YTD in Oracle Sales Analyzer, which is another Oracle OLAP tool. Also, if you remember, we had tested the reports for March 2000 and given reports to Financial/Management Account reports. We did not have any problems at all then.
To make things more clear about the YTD formula, I am not manipulating the
year value at all. Instead, the offset variable just stores a number against
the month ranging from -11 to 0. This is used in the MOVINGTOTAL function to
total up the appropriate preceeding months from the current month. The syntax
should make it clearer,
MOVINGTOTAL(variable,start pos, stop pos, step, TIME dimension)
eg.The offset value for month no.12 (Dec) will be -11. So that the total will be the sum of all the preceeding 11 months including the current month. The offset value for Jan will be 0, bcoz that is the first month. etc.
Yes, GL_TIME1.OFFSET is not a standard OFA object. But OFA/Express does not have a generic function to calculate YTD. Hence, we use user-defined stored variables along with MOVINGTOTAL function to get YTD.
I hope that this make things clearer." UNQUOTE
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Marianne Slight ([email protected]):
Akbar
I think the problem lies in your GL_TIME1.OFFSET object. This is not a standard
OFA/GL link object. It may be something like you're using extchars on the year
value, and have introduced a Y2K bug by subtracting 1 from the '00' year to give
you '0-1'. Describe your GL_TIME1.OFFSET object - if it's a formula make sure
that it operates correctly on 2000 years, if it's a variable then make sure it's
populated correctly.
Regards
Marianne
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