CHAPTER 3Rules and Calculations
Structures and hierarchies alone will not provide the detail and data the application needs to provide full consolidated numbers. The way you can add this into HFM is by using rules. Rules are an incredibly powerful and flexible way to add calculations to the application.
There really is not any part of HFM that can do more to make your project more valuable and more customized than the rules. Unfortunately, poorly written rules are most often the reason for poorly performing applications. No other part of this tool impacts everything else in quite the same way as rules do. Rules that are not done correctly can make every part of HFM—grids, forms, reports, security, lists, even logging on—a real chore. However, ...
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