HFM Metadata Design

Can anyone help me in designing the metadata in HFm in such a way that if organisational structure changes often we dont need to change the metadata all over again? This is in regard to Entity Dimension.
Edited by: user10246644 on Sep 10, 2008 9:56 PM

One possibility is to enable the "Organization By Period" feature, which allows you to effectively change your organization structure for one particular month without changing all historical time periods as well.

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