1. Administrator's Guide
  2. Managing Rules
  3. Rule Considerations
  4. Current Dimension Members

Current Dimension Members

By default, Oracle Hyperion Financial Management applies Calculation rules to the current dimension members at the time that the user selects a calculation command. See Calculation Rules with Calculation Commands. The current dimension members are determined by these factors:

  • The cell in the data grid in which the user’s cursor is placed when the user runs a calculation, translation, or consolidation.

  • The dimension members specified in the Point of View bar.

  • For consolidations, the current members of the Entity and Value dimensions change each time the rule is executed. See Calculation Rules with Consolidation Commands.

  • Rules process for the currently selected dimension members, except for calculation rules in which case the calculation rules process across all accounts in the application.

If a dimension member of the cell in which the cursor is placed differs from the corresponding member of the corresponding dimension in the Point of View bar, the cell’s dimension member overrides the Point of View bar’s dimension member. For example, if a user has specified an entity named Europe in the Point of View bar and runs a translation with the cursor placed in a cell for an entity named Germany, Germany is the current entity.

By specifying a dimension member as an argument, you can use some functions to work with a specific dimension member regardless of the current dimension. For example, you can use the NumBase function with the Entity object to get the number of base entities for the entity that you specify in the argument.

For more complex functions, you can create Account Expressions to specify the dimension members.