Rolling years dynamically updated from a business rule

Hi All,
Can anyone advise on how they have solved the problem of rolling opening balances from one year to another in essbase\planning. Our users could potentially want to forecast out x number of years and we don't want to necessarily hardcode out the business rule with each year. At them moment they are being prompted for the number of years that they will roll out and also the start and end year, they then have a business rule that loops the number of years and then fixes on the year range. This works however it will lead to performance issue going forward as the loop combined with the fix on the range will loop say 25 times for 5 years (5x5) instead of only 5 times.
Has anyone any pointers as to how to restrict this to only a year per pass or has anyone had this problem before ?
Thanks in advance

Thanks,
We have prompts in already , the problem is that for our opening balances to flow through we need to calculate one year, then the next, then the next etc... but we don't know each time we run the business rule how many years we will forecast for (it is user dependant). Our code works but it loops on the whole subset of the years in range based on the user selection.

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