Need help with a BR - Please help !

Question

Hi,
I would please request you to help me with your ideas on achievening the below requirement. I have ideas on doing this but I am not able to put together everything to make it work. Please let me know your thoughts. Will be a great help.
Requirement:
The requirement is that if the user enters a data value for Account member "P" on the data form at any level (Top most parent level, intermediate parent levels or 0 level) it should work in the following way.
1) It needs to check at which level the user entered the value for "P". We have a relation that V = P * T. So what I thought is if I dynamically calculate the "V" value everytime for every product I should know at which place they changed it as if they change the "P" value it would change the "V" value too as both are linked. So, basically I am comparing the stored "V" value with dynamically calculated "V" value.
2) If the "V" value has been changed at that level (i.e. if stored V Dyn. V) and this condition is met then, all the descendants of that current member should get the same P value as entered by the user for the current member.
3) This should work irrespective of which parent level they enter and should start filling in the values from that level. And if they enter "P" value at 0 level members, then it should leave them as it is without overriding it and should be used in consolidation.
This is what I could think -
Please suggest changes as this is not working still as per the requirement.
FIX(..........)
IF (@ISDESC ("LB") AND "V"->@PARENT(@CURRMBR(Product)) P->@PARENT(@CURRMBR(Product)) * T->@PARENT(@CURRMBR(Product)))
P->@CURRMBR(Product) = @PARENTVAL (Product,P);
Similarly IFELSE for another condition
ENDIF
ENDFIX;
But this is not working for all the cases. Lets say I have 3 levels in my hierarchy for Product and if the users are entering at level 2 it is not working and replacing the input value with its parent value which I am not sure why as it should in first place not enter the loop only as the condition wont be met. Reason, the user changed at level 2 and not 3 so it should do nothing from what I understand.
Please let me know your thoughts.
Thanks.

Answer 1

You can try something like this. Instead of dynamic V account add "P_Stored" member. If "P" account has data copy that data to "P_Stored" at all levels of the Product hierarchy. Based on your post I understand that Product hierarchy is evenly distributed than business rule can be like this:
FIX(@LEVMBRS("Product",2))
"P_Stored" (
IF("P_Stored" != @PARENTVAL("Product","P")
"P_Stored"=@PARENTVAL("Product","P");
"P"=@PARENTVAL("Product","P");
ENDIF
END
FIX(@LEVMBRS("Product",1))
"P_Stored" (
IF("P_Stored" != @PARENTVAL("Product","P")
"P_Stored"=@PARENTVAL("Product","P");
"P"=@PARENTVAL("Product","P");
ENDIF
END
FIX(@LEVMBRS("Product",0))
"P_Stored" (
IF("P_Stored" = "P")
/* I believe do nothing */
1==1
ELSEIF("P_Stored" != @PARENTVAL("Product","P")
"P_Stored"=@PARENTVAL("Product","P");
"P"=@PARENTVAL("Product","P");
ENDIF
END
FIX(@LEVMBRS("Product",3))
"P_Stored" (
IF("P_Stored" != "P")
"P_Stored"="P";
ENDIF
END
If Product hierarchy is ragged then code should be changed...
Regards,
Yuri
Edited by: yrozen on Oct 26, 2011 6:48 AM