1. Designer's Guide
  2. Using Components to Design Business Rules and Templates
  3. DTP Assignment Components
  4. Creating DTP Assignment Components

Creating DTP Assignment Components

You create a DTP Assignment component in a template by dragging its icon and dropping it into the Template Designer flow chart.

When creating DTP Assignment components, note the following:

  • A DTP Assignment component exists only within the template for which you create it.
  • You can place a DTP component anywhere in the flow chart except inside a member range, member block, or a condition component that does not use a DTP condition.

To create a DTP Assignment component:

  1. In System View, open a custom template.
  2. In the Template Designer, under New Objects, select the DTP Assignment object, and then drop it into the flow chart.
  3. Optional: Enter design-time prompts for the component. See Creating Design-Time Prompts for Custom Templates.
  4. Oracle Hyperion Financial Management Users Only: Select Enable Timer to include the time it takes to process the DTP Assignment in the log file when the business rule containing the template is launched. The process time is included in the log file for every object whose timer is enabled.
    For example, if you have a rule whose timer is enabled, the rule contains a custom template whose timer is enabled, and the template contains three DTP Assignment components whose timers are enabled. The time taken to process the rule, the custom template, and each DTP Assignment in the template is recorded.
  5. Financial Management Users Only: Select Enable Logging so, if the business rule containing the template has log text, it is included in the log file when the rule is launched. You can enable logging for rules, rulesets, and components. However, you specify what log text to include with a template's formula statements.
  6. In the Formula tab, define conditions for the template's design-time prompts.
    • From the dropdown to the left of the equal sign, select the design-time prompt for which you want to define a value.

      If there are no design-time prompts in the dropdown, none were created for the template with which you are working.

    • In the text box to the right of the equal sign, enter a value, or click Select button to select a variable, member, or function.
    • Click Plus buttonto assign values for additional design-time prompts.
  7. Enter properties for the DTP Assignment component:

    • Select Disabled to exclude the metadata loop component from the template for validation and calculation purposes.

      You may want to disable a component when a business rule does not validate and you need to find the source of the validation error. When you disable a component, it is displayed in gray in the flow chart.

    • Enter a Caption for the DTP Assignment component.

      The caption displays below the DTP Assignment component's icon in the flow chart

    • Enter a Description and Comments.

  8. Click Save button.