You validate business rules, rulesets, formula and script components to make sure they are syntactically correct before you deploy them to a Financial Management, Planning, or Essbase application. The validation process ensures that:
All dimension members are valid for the dimension within the application.
All functions exist, have the correct number of parameters, and are valid for the application type.
All variable references in business rules are valid. For replacement variables, the variables are replaced with the correct strings first and then validated. For execution variables, the validation process ensures the variables are defined for the application, the applications within an application type, the plan type (Planning users only) or the database (Essbase users only), and/or the business rule (Planning and Essbase users only).
There are no syntactic errors in the script generation.
Planning users only: If you are validating business rules that have runtime prompts with default values, the validation process ensures that all members in the runtime prompt are valid for the selected plan type and application and that there are no syntactic or semantic errors. If you are validating business rules that have runtime prompts without default values, no validation is performed.
Note: | If you do not validate rules and rulesets prior to deployment, they are validated as part of the deployment process to ensure that they are syntactically correct. |
To validate a business rule, a ruleset, or a formula or script component:
In the System View, expand the Financial Management, Planning, or Essbase application type and the application.
Financial Management users: To validate a ruleset, expand the calculation type and Rulesets.
Planning and Essbase users: To validate a ruleset, expand Rulesets.
Note:
For Financial Management applications, there is a Rulesets node for each calculation type within the application. For Planning and Essbase applications, there is only one Rulesets node for each application at the same level as the plan types and databases.
To validate a rule, formula, script, or template, expand the calculation type, plan type, or database, and Rules, Formulas, Scripts, or Templates, depending on the object you want to validate.
Right-click the object you want to validate, and select Validate.
Select the object you want to validate, and select Actions, Validate.
Planning and Essbase users only: In Validate Options, select whether you want to validate against Planning (for Planning rules) or Essbase (for Essbase rules), Performance Management Architect, or both. Then click OK.
Note:
If you are validating an object from a Classic Financial Management or a Classic Planning application, you can validate against only Financial Management or Planning. You cannot validate an object from a Classic application against a Performance Management Architect application.