Help Please - Parent Entity not clearing

Question

We had a parent entity with 2 base children. We removed those 2 children and made the parent childless. How do we clear that parent entity ?

Answer 1

First of all, avoid making a parent into a child, and alson don't turn parents into children -- in any dimension.
On the entity you have turned into a base: if you are seeing data in the parent which you cannot determine its source, then load a blank rules file temporarily. It should be a rules file containing only:
Sub Calculate()
End Sub
Load this and reconsolidate. You should no longer see numbers in the parent entity (confirm this). Then re-load the original rules file. If you then see data after the original rules file has been loaded, it is most likely from the rules and not from having been a parent previously.
One way you can clear data from a parent is to load a single record data file, where instead of a numeric data value you can load "NoData" for al 12 periods and then load this in replace mode. This approach will clear the data values from the entity.
--Chris