The Budget Item dimension, enabled only for the HCP plan type, contains FTE assignments and changes, status assignments and changes, compensation element changes, and allocation assignments. These predefined members are used:
Unspecified Budget Item—Contains and tracks data that does not change by period or year such as position name, employee name, and employee number.
FTE and Status Assignments—Parent member that includes 25 placeholder child members (1st Assignment through 25th Assignment) that tracks changes to FTE, employees, and position status. For example, track changes to employee status when employees are transferred, terminated, or go on maternity leave.
Element Changes—Parent member that includes 25 placeholder child members (1st Element Change through 25th Element Change) that tracks changes to the elements assigned to positions and employees, such as changes to benefits, salary grades, or additional earnings. Set the Addition aggregation option for all child members of Element Changes.
Allocation Assignments—Parent member that includes 25 placeholder child members (1st Allocation through 25th Allocation) that tracks the allocation assignments for positions and employees. Allocations link position and employee compensation expenses to the corresponding General Ledger accounts through segments or chartfields. The details of those allocations are captured by these members.
Rule Criteria—Preserves the search results for employees or positions that you adjust. For example, when you launch a business rule to search for positions to which to add benefits, the search results are stored in this member.
By default, applications include 25 effective-dated changes for a given scenario and version during a budget cycle. Determine the number of changes you will need in a budget cycle, and then add or load members to the dimension hierarchy.