Oracle Hyperion Financial Management Tips And Techniques

NoInput and Input Rules

There are times when you need to prevent input for a cell for a given period, entity custom, account, and so on. The NoInput rules allow you to do this. They are very straightforward. You just need to write these rules with the NoInput subroutine. Take a look at Figure B-18, and see how easy NoInput rules are. The only risk you have is that you must be aware, when creating loops, of how many NoInput rules you are actually running. I have seen people create billions of loops on the same five or six NoInput lines. In such a situation, you can expect the performance of loading the rules file and starting up the application to be unusually long. This is when the array created from the NoInput rules is created, and if you have ...