Workforce Planning "Status" Formula

Question

In Workforce Planning, the "Status" formula has a couple of lines that don't make sense to me. I'm wondering if anyone knows what this code is trying to accomplish.
Here's the member formula:
IF (@ISDESC("New Employees"))
IF ("BegBalance"->"Start Month" != #MISSING)
IF (0 == 0)
IF ("Cal TP-Index">= "BegBalance"->"Start Month")
"Status" = 1;
ENDIF
ELSEIF (("BegBalance"->"Start Month" - 0) > 0)
IF ("Fiscal TP-Index">= ("BegBalance"->"Start Month" - 0))
"Status" = 1;
ENDIF
ELSEIF ("Fiscal TP-Index">= ("BegBalance"->"Start Month" + 12 - 0))
"Status" = 1;
ENDIF
ENDIF
ELSE
In the third line, the code seems to be saying . . . "if zero equals zero". This section is then followed by two ELSEIF clauses. When would zero NOT be equal to zero, and how would those ELSEIF clauses ever run? Am I misinterpreting the code?
Thanks!
- Jake

Answer 1

Hi Jake,
Take a look at page 81 in the Workforce Planning Admin Guide for 9.3 at:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E10530_01/doc/epm.931/wfp_admin.pdf
I'm guessing you are looking at the formula in Essbase and not in Planning. In Planning it should say something like
If ([FiscalOffset] == 0) ...
As part of the planning deployment to Essbase that it changed to reflect the month offset from Jan based on a Fiscal Year not beginning in Jan.
Please let me know if you have any more questions.
Regards,
John A. Booth
http://www.metavero.com