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CarlosAlvear
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Change View POV inside Custom Calculate BR

Dear all,   We have 2 custom calculate functions (Finance BR) that are executed one after the other. The 1st one uses V#Period as POV and the 2nd uses V#YTD as View POV. These POV are set on the da...
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Thank you Robb.

In case of an api.data.calculate that makes sense, but how to manage in case of calculating using a data buffer? Because the output data buffer will take the view from the POV. Is there a way to change it hardcoded?

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    markolainio
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    10 days ago
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    You can define the view by using ExpressionDestinationInfo like this:

    Dim destination As ExpressionDestinationInfo = api.Data.GetExpressionDestinationInfo("V#YTD")

    api.Data.SetDataBuffer(result_buffer, destination)