Technical Design Review Question: InfoPackage Selection

I got my hands on technical design documentation for a project on COPA budget. I came up with a few questions but I will post them separately for fast closing and awards:
1. In the discussions of InfoPackage Selection, a statement
The budgets InfoSource will have full/Replace loads, based on plan version
Can you explain what this statement may mean? I am not sure I get it right.
Thanks.

Hi Caud !
I think that thi statement refers to the possibility to delete the content of an infoprovider for the same selection criteria...so, in this case, you have to load budget data on the basis of the plan version and delete (replace) the already existing data for the same plan version loaded before !
Hope it helps!
Bye,
Roberto
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/f8/e5603801be792de10000009b38f842/content.htm

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