Input Planning data on hierarchy notes

Question

Hi Expert,
On our BI project, The user want to input the values on hierarchy node (administration and sales node).
Example:
1. Cost center accounting hierarchy
     2. Administration
             Cost Center 1
             CC 2
     3. Sales
             CC3
             CC4
i try to create structure admins and sales after that inside the admins and sales, i restricted the hierarchy node. But it's not working. Please give the advise how to do it....because only that ways the user want to do their CCA planning.
THanks in advance.
Siandari

Answer 1

Yes - this is possible. In order to do this in Hyperion Planning, your version must be setup as a "Target" version, and not a "Bottom-up" Version.
If you don't want to use a "target" version, designers will sometimes create "proxy" members that represent an upper-level member in a hierarchy (but are actually level 0). These can be used to hold amounts to be allocated. The benefit of this approach is that the amount to be allocated doesn't actually get overwritten with the results of the allocation. This can make testing and validations easier. With that said, these proxy members can be difficult to manage, especially if you need to allocate from many upper-level points in a hierarchy.
Hope this helps,
- Jake