You can print a business rule's properties, its flow chart, and the details of its components. For example, if you print a business rule that contains a formula component for allocation expenses, the print out shows the formula syntax, the functions and variables that comprise the formula, a summary of the steps in the rule's flow chart (not in graphical form), and the rule's properties.
Note: | You cannot print business rulesets, templates, or components. You can only print templates and components if they are used in a business rule that you print. |
To print a business rule:
In the System View, expand the Financial Management, Planning, or Essbase application type, the application, the calculation type, the plan type, or the database, and Rules.
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You can also select File, Print from within the Rule Designer to print a rule.
In Print Preview, do these tasks:
Select the Print options:
Select the paper size.
Select the print orientation: portrait or landscape.
Select the Rule Information options:
Select General Rule Information if you want to print the rule's description and other details from the Properties tab, such as the rule's name, the application to which it belongs, its owner, the date it was created, and the date it was last modified.
Select Flow Chart and Expanded or Collapsed, if you want to print the flow chart, and you want to print it with the component details expanded or collapsed.
Select the number of pages you want to print the components across (horizontally).
Select the number of pages to print the components down (vertically).
Select the Page Order options:
Down, then across: the components in the flow chart print down (vertically, as rows do) on the number of pages you specified in the previous step, then the components print across (horizontally, as columns do) on the number of pages you specified in the previous step.
Across, then down: the components in the flow chart print across (horizontally, as columns do) on the number of pages you specified in the previous step, then the components print down (vertically, as rows do) on the number of pages you specified in the previous step.
Select the remaining Rule Information options:
Select Summary, if you want to print a summary of the components in the flow chart.
Select Variable Section if you want to print information on any variables used in the rule.
Select Detail Section if you want to print detailed information about the components in the rule.
Select Page break before sections if you want to create a page break between summary, variable, and detail sections. (This option is selected by default.)
Select Nested Rules if you want to print rules contained in other rules.
A PDF file of the business rule is opened in Adobe Acrobat.
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If you print a business rule that is in script only: 1) the Rule Details section of the PDF file contains the business rule script, 2) the Flow Chart section of the PDF file contains only a Begin and an End node, and 3) the Flow Summary section of the PDF file is empty.
In the Print dialog, select the print options specific to the printer you are using, and click Print.