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Marco's avatar
Marco
Contributor II
21 hours ago

How do I clean a scenario before copying data from another scenario? in the member formula.

Hi Everyone.
I want to copy the information from one scenario to another. Currently, I’m using the member formula of the target scenario to transfer the data. However, I first apply a calculate to set the values to zero, followed by a clecarcalculateddata to properly remove the existing information. The issue is that after this step, the copy process doesn’t execute, and the scenario remains with zero values. My code is as follows:

api.Data.calculate("S#FORECAST_" & monthNumber & "_AT_CY_BUDGET_RATE = 0*(S#FORECAST_" & monthNumber & "_AT_CY_BUDGET_RATE)",True)
api.Data.ClearCalculatedData("S#FORECAST_" & monthNumber & "_AT_CY_BUDGET_RATE",True,True,True,True)							

Dim destinationInfo As ExpressionDestinationInfo = api.Data.GetExpressionDestinationInfo("S#FORECAST_" & monthNumber & "_AT_CY_BUDGET_RATE")

'' Create new Databuffer for the results
Dim resultDataBuffer As New DataBuffer

'Base Entity at Local
If Not api.Entity.HasChildren And api.Cons.IsLocalCurrencyForEntity() Then
	BRapi.ErrorLog.LogMessage(si,"Validate 1")
	' Get Databuffer from the account and scenario
    Dim sourceDataBuffer As DataBuffer = api.data.GetDataBufferUsingFormula("RemoveZeros(FilterMembers(S#[Forecast " & TimeName & "],[A#Root.Base]))", , False)
    ' Verificar si hay celdas con datos
    If sourceDataBuffer.DataBufferCells.Count > 0 Then
		BRapi.ErrorLog.LogMessage(si,"Validate 2")
        For Each sourceCell As DataBufferCell In sourceDataBuffer.DataBufferCells.Values

            If (Not sourceCell.CellStatus.IsNoData) And (sourceCell.CellAmount <> 0.0) Then
				BRapi.ErrorLog.LogMessage(si,"Validate 3")
                Dim resultCell As New DataBufferCell(sourceCell)

                resultCell.DataBufferCellPk.OriginId = DimConstants.Import

                resultDataBuffer.SetCell(si, resultCell, True)

            End If
        Next

        api.Data.SetDataBuffer(resultDataBuffer, destinationInfo,,,,,,,,,,,,,False)

    End If
End If

I would appreciate your help in understanding why the values are not being copied. The process is executed when I consolidate the information.

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  • Henning's avatar
    Henning
    Valued Contributor II
    10 hours ago

    Hi, as per default, each data unit gets cleared during a calculation operation (e.g. during a consolidation). This only does not apply if the corresponding scenario setting is set to False. However, in all my years in the OS world, I have never seen it being set to False.

     

    Your calculation really just seems to pull data without a filter one from scenario to another. Just use a standard api.data.calculate("S#destinationScenario = removezeros(S#sourceScenario)"). On local currency and base entities and other things you might want.

    Use a scenario member formula for that to make sure this gets executed first. 

    My high-level guess as to why yours does not work is that the member formula executes during a calculation of the source scenario. Keep in mind, calculations in OneStream are "pull", i.e. you cannot push data from your source scenario to your destination scenario. The calculation has to be executed from the destination scenario in order to pull the data from the source scenario.