Using Memberlists in Finance BR

It would be executed for each Entity unless you store it as a global:

https://community.onestreamsoftware.com/t5/Rules/What-is-the-globals-object-good-for/m-p/1839

The data buffer function looks like this:

api.Data.GetDataBufferUsingFormula("RemoveNoData(FilterMembers(A#All, A#Root.Base.Where(AccountType = 'BalanceRecurring')))")

The first parameter of the FilterMembers function creates the query and the following once the restrictions. The first pov script doesn't need to be of the same dimensionality than the others.

This would work as well:

api.Data.GetDataBufferUsingFormula("RemoveNoData(FilterMembers(U1#None, A#Root.Base.Where(AccountType = 'BalanceRecurring')))")

You don‘t need to run it in the global entity. You just need to make sure, that it run only once.

This is how it works:

SyncLock Globals.LockObjectForInitialization
Dim BR_AccountList As List(Of String) = Globals.GetObject("BR_AccountList_Global")
Dim BR_AccountMember_Name As String

If BR_AccountList is nothing Then
    
    Dim BR_AccountList_Info As List(Of MemberInfo) = api.Members.GetMembersUsingFilter(api.Dimensions.GetDim("RevPlan_Accounts").DimPk, "A#Root.Base.Where(AccountType = 'BalanceRecurring')", Nothing)
   
    If (Not BR_AccountList_Info Is Nothing ) Then
        BR_AccountList   = New List(Of String)
        For Each BR_AccountMember As MemberInfo In BR_AccountList_Info
            BR_AccountMember_Name = BR_AccountMember.Member.Name
            BR_AccountList.Add(BR_AccountMember_Name)
        Next
    End If
    Globals.SetObject("BR_AccountList_Global" , BR_AccountList)

End If
End SyncLock

If POVENTITY = "S0001" Then
 For Each GlobalMember As String In BR_AccountList
api.LogMessage("Member :" & GlobalMember)
 Next
End If

I‘m not at my desk to test the code, it might has some spelling issue, but it should work. 

Hi

I hope you will have success with the globals, they are mighty.

1. To answer your questions, yes, the globals survive multiple periods, this can be very helpful, if the information doesn't change over time.
2. If it changes, just add the time member (or any other dimension) to the globals name: VAR_dtElasticity_Rental = Globals.GetObject("GLOBAL_dtElasticity_Rental_Table" & api.pov.time.name)
3. Yes, you can further query the datatable object. You can do so many things, I can't explain everything here, but Datatable is a Microsoft object (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.data.datatable?view=net-7.0), and the internet is full of tutorials and helps. You can use LINQ to access the information from a datatable's rows. In fact, it is recommended to reduce queries to the sql database as much as possible; globals are an effective way to do so.

I hope this helps and cheers

Christian