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Planning & Consolidation => COGNOS Planning => Topic started by: B. Connell on 19 Dec 2007 11:51:13 AM

Title: Locking data within Contributor?
Post by: B. Connell on 19 Dec 2007 11:51:13 AM
Is it possible to lock a slice of a few cubes of data within Contributor using Macros? 

I am working a monthly forecast process with a version for each month (1+11, 2+10, 3+9 etc.) and want to make sure that the prior forecast cannot be changed, either through data entry or d-links.  The data entry part can be covered through access tables, but not the d-links.

Since this is undoubtedly a common situation, I figured someone out there has already mastered this challenge!

Briana Connell
Title: Re: Locking data within Contributor?
Post by: ykud on 22 Dec 2007 02:42:11 AM
No way to stop dlinks in Contributor.
Insert Allocation cubes in links and change them, so that your previous forecast becomes unmatched (if this a time-based rule, use @Time to automate it)