1. Designing with Calculation Manager for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud
  2. Using Components to Design Business Rules and Templates
  3. Fixed Loop Components
  4. Creating a Fixed Loop Component

Creating a Fixed Loop Component

You create a fixed loop component in a business rule or template by dragging its icon and dropping it into the Rule Designer or Template Designer flow chart. A fixed loop component exists only within the business rule or template for which you create it. Fixed loop components cannot be shared across business rules or templates.

To create a fixed loop component:

  1. In System View, right-click a rule or a template, and then select Open.
  2. After you determine where in the business rule or template flow chart you want to create the fixed loop, from New Objects, drag the Fixed Loop object, and drop it into the flow chart.

    The fixed loop is displayed as two circles connected by a line.

  3. Custom template users only: If you are creating a fixed loop component for a template, create design-time prompts for it on the design-time prompt tab. See Creating Design-Time Prompts for Custom Templates.
  4. On the Fixed Loop tab, do these tasks:
    1. In Value, enter the number of times you want the loop to cycle through the metadata or data. Or click the Actions icon and select Variable (if you are working with a business rule) or DTP (if you are working with a custom template) or Function (if you are working with either a business rule or a custom template) to select variables, design-time prompts, or functions to define the loop. See Working with Variables and Working with Functions.
    2. In Break Variable, enter a variable, or click the Variable icon (if you are working with a business rule) or the DTP icon (if you are working with a custom template) to choose a numeric variable or a design-time prompt, respectively, to exit the fixed loop. The value of the break variable must be one.
    3. On the Errors and Warnings tab, click the button to run script diagnostics.
  5. Optional: On the Properties tab, do any of these tasks:

    • Select Disabled to exclude the fixed loop component from the business rule or template validation and calculation.

    • Enter a caption to identify the fixed loop component. The caption is displayed below the component in the flow chart of the rule or template to which it belongs.

    • Enter a description and comments for the fixed loop component.

  6. Click Save button.