Re: SAP BPC 7.0 - Copy an EvDRE function

Question

Hello,
I have a scenario to share with you all. I am designing a comparison report; year to year, month to month. I created a EvBET function. It is good to get this function copy to all range of cells. Is there an option to copy EvBET function in BPC 7.0?
Please share your views?
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

For this type of 3-column comparison, you want to disable the column expansion.
Then manually adjust your colKeyRange (inserting columns, or modifying the EVRNG formula to include 3 columns).
If you just want this report to be static in time, and always show those 3 specific months, then just type in the member IDs.
Much more likely, you want it dynamic, so decide which time period should come from the user's current view. Let's say you want "this month, last month, and this month last year" In that case, for your example 2008.MAR is "this month." So in one column, set a formula = the cell in your pagekeyrange (or anywhere else you want to build it) containing the EVCVW formula for your time dimension.
Then in the second column, use EVTIM to retrieve the member ID from one month prior.
And in the third column, EVTIM for the member ID one year prior.
Consider carefully how the report should work, if the user selects a quarter or year in the current view. It's possible to configure EVTIM so it always refers back 1 period (or 12 periods) at the same level as the current view. But you'll get errors if you build the report to go back 12 periods, and the user selects a year, if your time dimension doesn't go all the way back to 1996. Most likely, you'll want to show last year, regardless of the time level the user selects.