1. User's Guide
  2. Working with Standard Profitability and Cost Management Applications
  3. Managing Standard Profitability Allocations
  4. Selecting Standard Profitability Drivers

Selecting Standard Profitability Drivers

After you create a driver, you must associate it with the dimension members to which it applies.

When you select drivers, apply a driver selection using these methods:

  • Apply the driver to the top-level member of a dimension. The driver is inherited by every member within that dimension.

  • Apply the driver to the top-level member of a dimension sub-hierarchy. Only descendants of the selected member inherit the driver.

  • Apply the driver to a single member.

  • Apply the driver to a single intersection, or exception.

Drivers must be associated with any intersection that contains a cost or revenue value for the value to be allocated. If a driver has not been assigned to an intersection that contains assignments or assignment rules, a "Missing Driver Assignments" error is created during model validation. Driver selections may change from period to period.

The results of any changes to selections are evident when the model is deployed; however, no warnings or errors are displayed if a selection is changed.

Note:

If a stage contains only one dimension, a driver selection for a dimension member must be created. If a stage contains two dimensions, it may have either a driver selection for a dimension member, or a driver selection for a single intersection, or both.

For detailed instructions on working with driver selections, see these procedures: