Metadata Referential Integrity

To prevent a referential integrity problem from occurring in the application, Oracle Hyperion Financial Management verifies that metadata changes are valid to the application in its current state before accepting the changes.

When you load metadata, the system compares the metadata load file with the metadata elements in the application. All changes are recorded, and some changes are checked against existing data. Modifications that cause referential integrity problems are not allowed.

Note:

Locking data prevents stored data from being changed. It does not prevent aggregated data from changing if hierarchies are changed. To change a hierarchy total without affecting old aggregations, you should add a new hierarchy and retain the old hierarchy, rather than changing an existing hierarchy.