Two different retrieval results on two spreadsheets for same account

Question

I am encountering some very bizarre retrieval behavior that I've never seen before. The version is 11.1.1.3. I have a dynamically calculated account, which produces a Contract-to-date value for Net Sales.
The formula is:
IF(@ISMBR("Jan"))
@MDSHIFT("CTD Sales", 24, "Period", , -1, "Years", ) + "Net Sales";
ELSE
@PRIOR("CTD Sales") + "Net Sales";
It's always worked correctly as far as I can determine. I took a copy of the outline and put it in my dev system and have been working on some other development. In testing, I noticed that my CTD Sales wasn't retrieving the correct number. This is on a spreadsheet with multiple other accounts on it. It works fine up through FY12, then in January of FY13 and thereafter, produces incorrect numbers, with no apparent pattern of error. So I put just the Net Sales and CTD Sales members onto another spreadsheet, without all of the other stuff, and retrieved that, and it produced the correct numbers. It's not a matter of having a spreadsheet formula in the retrieval spot that I've forgotten about (I've done that before). I also copied the spreadsheet with the wrong numbers, and retrieved in Smart View (was retrieving in Essbase add-in before), and got the same wrong numbers.
In addition, I actually have three dynamically calculated CTD accounts on the sheet, and the bizarre behavior is happening for all three. With all of the other accounts on the sheet, wrong numbers. With only those accounts on the sheet, correct numbers.
Also, for more information, one of my calculation scripts uses these CTD members, and it is producing the correct result, so this appears to be isolated purely to spreadsheet retrieval.
So how can the same exact dimension intersection produce two different numbers on two different spreadsheets? Why would having other account members on a spreadsheet affect the results of one of the accounts? Has anyone ever encountered this before?
Sabrina

Answer 1

are you sure you have same combinations from rest of dimensions in both spreadsheets...like retrieving for same month ???Absolutely, 100% sure.
Also does the difference exists for all months retrieval or only for Jan retrieval?It starts in January and the difference continues for the rest of the months/years after. The amount it's off by changes each year, but remains the same for each month in the year. So Jan through Dec of FY13 are all off by 50,321,000. Jan through Dec of FY14 are all off by 186,378,000. Jan through Dec of FY15 are all off by 351,757,000.
Also note that if you have a retrieval as shown in the screenshot in the following link... for the last 5 months (AUG to DEC) under FY11 will actually retreive for FY12. this is a wierd behaviour.No, I have the year above each month.
Sabrina
Edited by: SabrinaD on Aug 3, 2010 12:31 PM