Referentail Integrity Error when changing Entity Name

Question

I updated the metadata file to change a Entity name and when I tried to load I received an Integrity error because of some old Journal Entries from 2001-2003. Is there a way around this without modifying the journal entries?
Metadata referential integrity check started at 14:46:19
Journals::ACT_APR_TAXADJ     Scenario::ACTUAL     Year::2003     Value::<Parent Curr Adjs>     Period::April          has 2 records of Changed::[ ENTITY::CAMPINAS ]
Journals::ACT_FEB_TAXADJ     Scenario::ACTUAL     Year::2003     Value::<Parent Curr Adjs>     Period::February          has 2 records of Changed::[ ENTITY::CAMPINAS ]
Journals::ACT_JAN_TAXADJ     Scenario::ACTUAL     Year::2003     Value::<Parent Curr Adjs>     Period::January          has 2 records of Changed::[ ENTITY::CAMPINAS ]
Journals::ACT_JUL_TAXADJ     Scenario::ACTUAL     Year::2003     Value::<Parent Curr Adjs>     Period::July          has 2 records of Changed::[ ENTITY::CAMPINAS ]
Journals::ACT_JUN_TAXADJ     Scenario::ACTUAL     Year::2003     Value::<Parent Curr Adjs>     Period::June          has 8 records of Changed::[ ENTITY::CAMPINAS ]
Journals::ACT_MAR_TAXADJ     Scenario::ACTUAL     Year::2003     Value::<Parent Curr Adjs>     Period::March          has 8 records of Changed::[ ENTITY::CAMPINAS ]
Journals::ACT_MAY_TAXADJ     Scenario::ACTUAL     Year::2003     Value::<Parent Curr Adjs>     Period::May          has 2 records of Changed::[ ENTITY::CAMPINAS ]
Journals::ACTUAL2001APR282     Scenario::ActPara     Year::2001     Value::<Parent Curr Adjs>     Period::April          has 2 records of Changed::[ ENTITY::CAMPINAS ]
Journals::ACTUAL2001DEC282     Scenario::ActPara     Year::2001     Value::<Parent Curr Adjs>     Period::December          has 5 records of Changed::[ ENTITY::CAMPINAS ]
Journals::ACTUAL2001FEB282     Scenario::ActPara     Year::2001     Value::<Parent Curr Adjs>     Period::February          has 2 records of Changed::[ ENTITY::CAMPINAS ]
Journals::ACTUAL2001MAR282     Scenario::ActPara     Year::2001     Value::<Parent Curr Adjs>     Period::March          has 2 records of Changed::[ ENTITY::CAMPINAS ]

Answer 1

As long as you are only changing the name of a parent you will only be affected by any Parent currency adjustment Journals that were made to that Parent/entity combination. The solution to unpost the Journals, change the parent, and repost the journals will solve the problem for now. You are correct in assuming this is not best practice. Part of the beauty of HFM is to have many organizational structures (hierarchies) and for Journals to follow the entities when you move them or change names (rarely). If you assign a parent currency Journal to a specific parent/entity combination and you have organizational changes down the road you will run into this again. We safeguard against this by having a default hierarchy that contains all Base entities. You need one for each currency group. All our parents are USD, so we only require one group, USD_Journals. Use this as the parent for all Parent currency Journal entires. Then it does not matter which hierarchy the entity shows up in, the journal will follow and the USD_Journals/Entitiy combination will never go away.
This solution is for Parent entities only. Base entities should not ever change names or default currencies. It creates the mess I was describing earlier and dangerous risk of loss of historical data.
Edited by: GCAPO on Mar 18, 2013 7:08 AM