36 Understand Column Propagation

This chapter contains the topic:

Section 36.1, "About Column Propagation."

36.1 About Column Propagation

You propagate columns to copy the same value down a column. This is helpful if you have a value that does not change, such as the actual number of units that you produced. You can propagate the actual number of units down a column so that the actual number of units can be divided by the actual cost of production. This provides you with the cost of every step during production.

To gather values that can be copied down a column, you use one of the following column type codes:

Code	Description
PR	Propagate a column by values
RP	Propagate a column by range

These column type codes are valid values for column-only versions. You cannot use these codes in reports with row specifications.

JD Edwards World recommends that you sequence the report on object or object.subsidiary so that you can access account balances.