Re: How to get alert if you find variance is more than 20%?

Hi Viswanath,

If you would like to alert the user before saving, this will need to be in the excel interface as opposed to BPC back-end.

You can do this in various ways. If you would like an alart to come up, then as Nilanjan says, you could use the BEFORE_SAVE event. This is called after the user clicks the Save button, but before it commits the records to the database.

You will need to write the VBA script and add it to the workbook VBA. The EPM help guide will direct you to the code https://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boeo10/en/EPMofc_10_user_en.pdf - it will be something like:

Option Explicit

Function AFTER_SAVE()

<< Put your VBA logic in here , e.g. If cell A1/A2=>0.2 then msgbox("Warning, variance over 20") >>

AFTER_SAVE = True

End Function

A simpler option is to just have a 'Check' column on the far right of the data that uses simple excel to ensure it is 20% or less. Then use conditional formatting to show Green / Red indicators for users. This will be a lot less annoying if there is a frequent valid reason to make the variance more than 20%.

Hope this helps,

Nick