Referencing annual prices for monthly units * price calculations

Question

Hello,
We have a PLANNING application that has the following dimensions.
Z_Account,Z_Time,Z_Company,Z_Version,Z_Driver,Z_DataSrc,Z_Driver,Z_Produ
ct,Z_Customer. We have plan sales quantities by product and customer for
every month in the year against an account called 'SalesUnits'
(combination is Z_Account = SalesUnits, Z_Time = 2009.JAN to 2009.DEC,
Z_Driver = None,Z_Customers = various customers, Z_Product = various
products, Z_Version = Forecast, Z_DataSrc = Manual, Z_Company = various
companies). However, sales prices are planned for and entered on an
annual level.
For this we store the sales prices for the combination
Z_Account = "DriverAccount", Z_Time = 2009.INP, Z_Driver= "SalesPrice",
Z_Customer = NoCustomer, Z_Product= various products,Z_Company = various
companies,Z_Version = Forecast, Z_DataSrc= Manual. The requirement is to
write script logic that multiplies sales quantities of each
product/customer/ month by the price of the product/year and write the
values to another account (SalesRevenue) for each product/customer/month
combination.
How would one go about writing the script logic for above?
We tried the following ways. However, we get errors either during
validation or during execution of the script.
Try 1: In this case we created a property called 'Input_Year' in the
time dimension and stored the value 2009.INP as property for all the
months 2009.JAN to 2009.DEC
*XDIM_MEMBERSET Z_Account = SalesUnits,DriverAccount,SalesRevenue
*XDIM_MEMBERSET Z_Product = AllProducts
*XDIM_MEMBERSET Z_Customer = AllCustomers
*XDIM_MEMBERSET Z_DataSrc = Manual
*XDIM_MEMBERSET Z_Drivers =ALL_ACT
*XDIM_MEMBERSET Z_RptCurrency = LC
*XDIM_MEMBERSET MEASURES = PERIODIC
*function PRO(%DIMENSIONNAME%,%PROPERTYNAME%)
%DIMENSIONNAME%.Properties("%PROPERTYNAME%")
*endfunction
#INPUTYEAR=PRO(Z_Time,INPUT_YEAR)
*WHEN Z_ACCOUNT
*IS "SalesUnits"
*REC(Expression = %Value% *
([Z_Account].[DriverAccount],[Z_Drivers].[SalesPrice],[Z_Time].[#INPUTYE
AR],[Z_Customer].[NoCustomer]),Z_Account = "SalesRevenue")
*ENDWHEN
*COMMIT
The above code could not be validated. Is there any way to include a
variable as dimension member in a tuple in a REC statement? NB: The code
works if we hard code [Z_Time].[2009.INP] in the tuple. However, we want
to avoid hard coding of years, months and dimension items that would
change frequently.
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Answer 1

Hi Halomoan,
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I had to tweak the code to get the quantity * price to come out with the right numbers.
One issue still remains in that I cannot get the input year populated as a variable. The following code works if the year 2009.INP is hardcoded in the statement
*DIM Z_TIME                WHAT=2009.INP; WHERE=>>>; USING=BAS(%Z_TIME_SET%);
, but does not work if I use a *SELECT statement to populate the variable %INPUT_YEAR%.
I used the script logic tester in the BI system to test the following logic and specified 2009.TOTAL for Z_TIME and 1000 for Z_COMPANY.
*SELECT(%INPUT_YEAR%, INPUT_PERIOD, Z_TIME, [ID] =%Z_TIME_SET%)
*XDIM_ADDMEMBERSET Z_Time=%INPUT_YEAR%
*RUNALLOCATION
*FACTOR=USING
*DIM Z_ACCOUNT     WHAT=DriverAccount ; WHERE=SalesRevenue; USING=SalesUnits;
*DIM Z_DRIVERS        WHAT=SalesPrice; WHERE=>>>; USING=NONE;
*DIM Z_CUSTOMER  WHAT=NoCustomer; WHERE=>>>; USING=BAS(AllCustomers);
*DIM Z_PRODUCT    WHAT=BAS(AllProducts); WHERE=<<<; USING=<<<;
*DIM Z_VERSION    WHAT=ACTUAL; WHERE=<<<; USING=<<<;
*DIM Z_DATASRC    WHAT=HISTORY; WHERE =<<<; USING=<<<;
*DIM Z_COMPANY    WHAT=%Z_COMPANY_SET%; WHERE =<<<; USING=<<<;
*DIM Z_PLANT          WHAT=NoPlant; WHERE=<<<; USING=<<<;
*DIM Z_PRODUCTGROUP          WHAT=NoProductGroup; WHERE=<<<; USING=<<<;
*DIM Z_CHANNELPARTNER          WHAT=NoChannel; WHERE=<<<; USING=<<<;
*DIM Z_TIME                WHAT=%INPUT_YEAR%; WHERE=>>>; USING=BAS(%Z_TIME_SET%);
*ENDALLOCATION
Any idea on how to get a variable populated from the property value of a member as defined by a %{Dimension member
}_SET%?