Distributing Data from Administrator Workstations

When to distribute data

As an administrator, you can distribute slices of data that you entered into your personal database to the shared database that you maintain and to subordinate workstations. This feature enables you to control when your users receive specific types of data, such as currency translation rates, because users receive notification that they need to refresh their data, and they cannot contribute new data to the shared database until they have refreshed their personal databases.

Important: Take care when distributing data

It is important to be careful when distributing data, because the data that you distributes overwrites data in the shared database. You can only distribute data for financial data items that you specifically marked for this purpose when you created them by selecting the Distribute Data option in the Maintain Financial Data Item dialog box.

Selecting data for distribution

You choose Distribution, Distribute Data from the Manage menu to distribute slices of financial data to users and to the shared database. This opens the Distribute Data dialog box, where you can select a financial data item and define an associated data slice.

Example: Distributing data

The following example illustrates the Distribute Data dialog box. In the example, one data slice is selected for distribution.

Submitting distributions to the Task Processor

After you specify data for distribution, you must submit the distribution. Submitting a distribution sends it to the Task Processor.

If your system is not set up to continually run the Task Processor as a separate workstation or in the background, you must manually start the Task Processor so that the task will run.

Related information

For more information about distributing data, search for the following topics in the Financial Analyzer Help system:

"Creating Financial Data Items"

"Distributing Data"