rekblad
Well Known Member
Using this smart field to make an Income Statement with 6 periods (current, current -1, current -2, etc) and it won't pay attention to a processing option meant to control the 'current period'. The typical use of the financial reporting period as the current period isn't acceptable as the users may want to run the report based upon August even though we are now in October. Thus the need to pass a user entered value to the data structure. Sounded easy enough... so I built the report and added a processing option to control the current period. No workie !! It always gets the financial reporting period as the current period.
1) After I attached the processing option template (I just copied T83PO and took away the second tab), we checked the event rules for "PA - Period Activity" and made sure the processing option value is being passed to the data structure. This looks correct.
2) I used the event debugger and the value from the processing option isn't showing up at all.
3) We overrode the value in the "PA - Period Activity" data structure to a literal value and it produced the correct results. We concluded the smart field itself is calculating correctly and thus the data from the processing option is being lost somewhere in the BF's that are used to manage the data going to the smart field.
That's the extent of my knowledge as I can barely spell C++ and have no clue how to determine where the value in my processing option is being lost.
I checked KG for any info about FINPRTPA and didn't find a reference to the failure of processing options.
Have any of you successfully used this smart field with a processing option to control current period? Am I missing something?
Rob
B7333
Oracle
Sun / Unix
B7332
Oracle
NT
1) After I attached the processing option template (I just copied T83PO and took away the second tab), we checked the event rules for "PA - Period Activity" and made sure the processing option value is being passed to the data structure. This looks correct.
2) I used the event debugger and the value from the processing option isn't showing up at all.
3) We overrode the value in the "PA - Period Activity" data structure to a literal value and it produced the correct results. We concluded the smart field itself is calculating correctly and thus the data from the processing option is being lost somewhere in the BF's that are used to manage the data going to the smart field.
That's the extent of my knowledge as I can barely spell C++ and have no clue how to determine where the value in my processing option is being lost.
I checked KG for any info about FINPRTPA and didn't find a reference to the failure of processing options.
Have any of you successfully used this smart field with a processing option to control current period? Am I missing something?
Rob
B7333
Oracle
Sun / Unix
B7332
Oracle
NT