You can lock an entity for a period or periods if you do not want users to be able to modify that data, and if you are in the Lock Data security role. When data is locked, you cannot change the data for that scenario, year, entity, parent, value, and period.
When you lock data, the system locks recursively across the Entity and Value dimensions, so it is only necessary to select the top parent. When you lock a parent entity, the system locks recursively upward starting at all of the base entities. For each entity, Value members are locked in this order: Entity Currency, None, Parent Currency, Contribution Total.
You can lock data for a period only if these conditions are met:
The entity’s calculation status must be OK. See Viewing Calculation Status.
If process management is enabled for the scenario, the entity must have a process level of Published. If Process Management is enabled and the cell status is NODATA, you must promote the process unit before it can be locked. See Process Levels.
If the entity is a parent, all of its children must also be locked. If you select the top parent, the system locks all of its children.
The Validation account for the entity currency and entity currency adjustments must be zero.
To lock data: