You create a DTP Assignment component in a template by dragging its icon and dropping it into the Template Designer flow chart. A DTP Assignment component exists only within the template for which you create it. DTP Assignment components cannot be shared across templates.
To create a DTP Assignment 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 Templates.
Open the template into which you want to insert a DTP Assignment component.
After you determine where in the flow chart you want to create the DTP Assignment component, from New Objects, drag the DTP Assignment object, and drop it into the flow chart.
The DTP Assignment component is displayed as a square with a fraction in it.
Optional: Enter design time prompts for the component. See Creating Design Time Prompts for a Custom Defined Template (Financial Management, Planning, and Essbase Block Storage Application Users Only).
On Properties, do any or all of these tasks.
Optional: Enter a name of up to 50 characters.
Optional: Enter a description of up to 255 characters.
Optional: Enter a caption. The caption displays below the DTP Assignment component's icon in the flow chart.
Optional: Enter comments.
Financial Management Users Only: Select Enable Timer if you want the time it takes to process the DTP Assignment to be included in the log file when the business rule containing the template is launched. 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, the rule contains a custom-defined template whose timer is enabled, and the template contains three DTP Assignment components whose timers are enabled, the time taken to process the rule, the custom-defined template, and each DTP Assignment in the template, is recorded.
Financial Management Users Only: Select Enable Logging so, if the business rule containing the template has log text, it is included in the log file when the rule is launched. You can enable logging for rules, rulesets, and components. However, you specify what log text to include, if any, with a template's formula statements.
On Formula, define conditions for the template's design time prompts.
From the dropdown to the left of the equal sign, select the design time prompt for which you want to define a value.
Note:
If there are no design time prompts in the dropdown, none were created for the template with which you are working.
In the text box to the right of the equal sign, enter a value, or click in the box to display the Actions icon.
To enter variables, select Variable. See Working with Variables.
To enter members, select Member. See Working with Members.
To enter functions, select Function. See Working with Functions.
To enter Smart Lists, select Smart List. See Working with Smart Lists (Planning Users Only).
Repeat these steps until you assign values for as many of the design time prompts as you want.
Tip:
To add rows so you can define values for more design time prompts, click the plus (+) icon. To delete a row, click the minus (-) icon.