VB Smartview - Retreive Ancestor of Entity for HFM

Question

Dear all,
I want to get dynamically all the ancestor of an entity with VB Smarview. In the Oracle Smartview document, there is a VBA functions which allows to return the ancestor of a dimension member :
HypGetAncestor (vtSheetName, vtMemberName, vtLayerType, intLayerNum, vtAncestor)
+ vtSheetName: Text name of worksheet to operate on. vtSheetName is of the form
"[Book.xls]Sheet". If vtSheetName is null, empty, or invalid (nonexistent or name does not
match exactly), the active sheet is used.
+ vtLayerType: Specify either “Gen” or “Level”. If vtLayerType is Null or Empty, Gen is taken as
default.
+ vtMemberName: Specify a member name. Required field.
+ intLayerNum: Specify the Level/Generation number. Required Field.
+ vtAncestor: Output. Contains the ancestor name on successful execution of the macro.
But it says this function HypGetAncestor is used for Data Source types : Essbase. and in HFM, there isn't the notion of Number of Generation and Level
I want to know if i can use it anyway for HFM by letting Level 0 ?
Thank you in advance
Edited by: ThanhKP on Oct 26, 2012 6:54 AM

Answer 1

Many applications make use of a customer dimension to capture Adjustments/Eliminations/Allocations, etc. Such a dimension would have to be part of the original application design. If you had this dimension in use in custom 4 for example, which I will call "Data Sources", you might have a member called "AutomatedElimnations". In the consolidation rules, you would modify the elimination rules to write to V#[Elimination].C4#AutomatedEliminations.
Once this is in place, your report would use E#TopEntity.C4#AutomatedEliminations.V#<Entity Currency> for the eliminations column.
Our consolidating report needs to take the value dimension into consideration if your entities are in different currencies. Also, with respect to your idea about the list of [Elimination] values: [Elimination] is done in the parent entity's currency, so it's not a given that you can even add these together.
-- Chris