Automatically Running Solves and Group Solves

Associating solve definitions with financial data items

As an administrator, you can define a financial data item so that a solve or group solve runs whenever a user submits data associated with the financial data item to the shared database.

You choose Financial Data Item from the Maintain menu to set up the relationship between a financial data item and a solve or group solve. This opens the Maintain Financial Data Item dialog box, where you can select a financial data item and associate it with a solve definition or group solve definition. After you distribute the financial data item to the shared database, the specified solve or group will run automatically.

Example: Associating a solve definition with a financial data item

The following example shows the Financial Data Item dialog box for Actuals. In this example, the Profile to Solve box shows that a group solve definition, Actuals, is associated with the Actuals financial data item.

What happens when data is submitted

Each time a Budget workstation user submits data (or the case of an Analyst workstation user, saves data) for the financial data item, the software automatically initiates the appropriate solve definition or group solve definition to recalculate the data.

The dimension values in status when the solve or group solve takes place is determined by the intersection of the submit status and the solve definition status.

IF the solve profile is . . .	THEN . . .
a solve definition	the status set before the solve is the intersection of the status of the submit with the status set in the solve definition.
a group solve definition	then the status set before each solve definition in the group is: The intersection of the status of the submit with the status set in the solve definition, if the financial data item in the solve definition is one that was used in the submit. The status set by the solve definition if the financial data item in the solve definition was not used in the submit.