You create a Fixed Loop component in a business rule or template by dragging its icon and dropping it into the Rule Designer or Template Designer flow chart. A Fixed Loop component exists only within the business rule or template for which you create it. Fixed Loop components cannot be shared across business rules or templates.
To create a fixed loop component:
In the System View, expand the Financial Management, Planning, or Essbase application type, the application, the calculation type (for Financial Management), the plan type (for Planning), or the database (for Essbase), and Rules or Templates, depending on whether you want to create the component for a business rule or template.
Open the rule or template into which you want to insert a fixed loop component.
After you determine where in the flow chart you want to create the fixed loop, from New Objects, drag the Fixed Loop object, and drop it into the flow chart.
The fixed loop is displayed as two circles connected by a dotted line.
Optional: If you are creating a fixed loop component for a template, enter design time prompts for it. See Creating Design Time Prompts for a Custom Defined Template (Financial Management, Planning, and Essbase Block Storage Application Users Only).
Optional: Enter a caption to identify the fixed loop component. The caption is displayed below the fixed loop component in the flow chart of the rule or template to which it belongs.
Financial Management Users Only: Select Enable Timer if you want the time it takes to process the fixed loop to be included in the log file when the business rule is launched. You can enable the timer for rules, rulesets, and components. The process time is included in the log file for every object whose timer is enabled. For example, if you have a rule whose timer is enabled and the rule contains three fixed loops whose timers are enabled, the time taken to process the rule, and each fixed loop in the ruleset, is recorded.
Planning and Essbase users only: Do these tasks:
In Value, enter the number of times you want the loop to cycle through the metadata or data.
In Break Variable, enter a variable, or click in the Break Variable field to display the Insert a variable icon.
Click Insert a variable to choose or create a numeric variable for exiting the fixed loop. The value of the break variable must be one. See Working with Variables.
Financial Management Users Only: Do these tasks:
In Value, enter the number of times you want the loop to cycle through the metadata or data, or click in the field to display the Actions icon.
Click the Actions icon, and select Variable or Function to access dialogs from which you can select variables or functions. See Working with Variables and Working with Functions.
In Variable, enter a variable, or click in the field to display the Insert a Variable icon.
Click the Insert a Variable icon to access a dialog from which you can select or create a new variable. See Working with Variables.