Working with Group Solve Definitions

Creating a group solve definition

You choose Group Solve Definition from the Tools menu to create a new group solve definition. This opens the Group Solve dialog box. From this starting point, you can name the new group solve definition and use the tabs in the Add to Group Solve box to select solve definitions and copy data profiles to include in the group solve definition.

Example: Group solve definition

The following example shows the Group Solve Definition Dialog box. In this example, the group solve definition includes two solve definitions and a copy data profile.

Running group solve definitions

Both administrators and Budget workstation users can manually run group solve definitions from the Group Solve Definition dialog box.

An administrator can also link a group solve definition to a financial data item so that the group solve definition runs automatically whenever a user submits data associated with the financial data item to the shared database. This feature is described in "Associating solve definitions with financial data items".

Setting the operational mode for running group solve definitions

If you are using an Administrator workstation, where a group solve is performed depends on the Operational Mode setting in the Options dialog box. If the Operational Mode is set to Administrator, data models are solved in your personal database. If the Operational Mode is set to Workstation, data models are submitted to the Task Processor and solved in the local shared database.

Modifying group solve definitions

You choose Group Solve from the Tools menu to maintain group solve definitions. This opens the Group Solve dialog box, where you can choose the group solve definition that you want to modify. You can perform the following tasks:

• You can give a group solve definition a new name.

• You can delete a group solve definition. As an administrator, you can also delete the group solve definition from the shared database by deleting it from your personal database and then distributing this change.

• You can edit the information for a group solve definition. For example, you can add a solve definition.

• You can move a group solve definition to a new position in the list of group solve definitions maintained by the system.

Related information

For more information about group solve definitions, search for the following topics in the Financial Analyzer Help system:

"Creating Group Solve Definitions"

"Renaming Group Solve Definitions"

"Moving Group Solve Definitions"

"Deleting Group Solve Definitions"

"Running Group Solve Definitions to Calculate New Data"

"Specifying the Operational Mode"