Variable data entry in BPC

Hi Forum,
Does anyone know if it is possible to have a mechanism for variable data entry in the budget process in BPC ? What we are trying to do is setup a budget data entry template which allows budget holders to input a variable number of capex projects as rows, this will not be a set number and will have different descriptions but will be a variable number depending on the business unit. There is no way that I can see to setup this centrally in the BPC administrator so the options we have are to store this on the budget template and then send the consolidated value (ie sum of the projects) using the BPC send or have some kind of relational form which the end user inputs to.
I would apprecitae it if anyone can let me know if my assumptions are correct or if there are any other approaches that I can take ?
Thanks,
Brian

Ok,
Hoe bout this? I have a process where users needs to allocate new stores to different brands that they need to open. This number can vary and they all know how many stores that they would like to open per brand.
So what we did was let them capture the number of stores that they want to open. In the background (hidden section) we submit a 1 against a long list of new stores members (we created a dim fir this). The next step would be to create a EVDRE that would suppress everything that does not have a value of 1 for the account/entity combination. This gave every user the correct list of stores that will be opened for the year and it varied for every brand.
Is that the functionality that you are looking for? You would just have to identify the maximum number of stores or in your case projects.
Cheers,
AvdB

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