Hyperion Planning 11.1.2.1 - Time Balance = None

Question

I have a planning form which has some Accounts in the rows (forecast sales volumes) and Periods in the columns (Jan to Dec and YearTotal).
At the moment, as I enter data for months, an aggregated value is updated in the YearTotal column, which is of course expected with a time Balance of Flow.
These forecast volumes get multiplied by promotion/marketing rates (also entered on a monthly basis) to create Marketing totals etc. but crucially the client wants the Year Total in this case to be Blank. For reasons beyond my understanding the None Time Balance in Planning applications is read as Flow.
Example (What currently occurs):
/ ¦ Oct ¦ Nov ¦ Dec ¦ Year Total
Sales Volumes ¦ 10 10 20 40
Rates per Vol. ¦ 2 3 2 7
Marketing Total ¦ 20 30 40 90
Example (What I'd like):
/ ¦ Oct ¦ Nov ¦ Dec ¦ Year Total
Sales Volumes ¦ 10 10 20 40
Rates per Vol. ¦ 2 3 2 ---
Marketing Total ¦ 20 30 40 90
Is this possible? Any help Gratefully received.
Ed

Answer 1

Hi Alp,
The Aggregation operator for this Rate member is currently set to ~ and the Rates still calculate up to TotalYear as you enter them in the input form.
Just to be clear:
The 'rate member' is a Rate per item, (lets call it RPI) which is there purely to drive Marketing totals from the volumes entered.
The properties of this RPI member are as follows:
Aggregation for Plan1: ~
DataStorage: StoreData
TimeBalance: Flow
SkipValue: None
Account Type: Revenue
Data Type: Unspecified
I'm guessing that one of these above properties can be the issue here. I thought that Time Balance would be the answer here, but found in the Native Application Help that Planning treats "None" as "Flow".
Any reading material that can point me in the right direction here? I've had a look through the Time Balance bits in the Planning documentation but cant seem to find anything.
I'm sure this is one of those painfully-obvious-if-you-know-how things.
Thanks for all help so far!