Adding Sibling and Child Periods

You can add single or multiple sibling and child periods to the period hierarchy.

  To add a single child or sibling period:

  1. Highlight the period to which to add a child or sibling period.

  2. Right-click the period, and select Insert Sibling, or Insert Child.

    Tip:

    You can also use the Insert Child toolbar button Insert Child button and the Insert Sibling toolbar button Insert Sibling button.

  3. Enter a name for the new sibling or child period.

  To add multiple child or sibling periods:

  1. Highlight the period to which to add multiple child or sibling periods.

  2. Right-click the period, and select Insert Multiple.

  3. Select an option:

    • Multiple Sibling Periods Multiple Sibling Periods button to add multiple sibling periods to the selected period

    • Multiple Child Periods Multiple Child Periods button to add multiple child periods to the selected period

  4. Enter the number of periods to add to the hierarchy.

  5. Enter a label prefix for the new periods.

    Tip:

    If you enter 10 for the number of periods and NewPeriod as the label prefix, these periods are added to the hierarchy: NewPeriod1 through NewPeriod10.