Validating Allocation Rules

Click Validate to validate your allocation rule.

Sample Allocation rule showing the Validate button

The Validation dialog box displays any errors or warnings in your allocation rules. The validation checks each rule for these conditions:

  • The rule is fully defined

    This means that the source and destination definitions for each rule must include members for every dimension.

  • Dimension members referenced in your rule definitions exist in the database

    If you delete members from dimensions that are referenced in existing rules, the rules can't run.

If you have several validation errors or warnings, you can click Export button (Export), to export the information to Excel. You can then use the Excel spreadsheet as a checklist as you go back to the Source/Destination tab to fix the errors and warnings.

The following rule has one warning.

Validation dialog box showing one warning

Continue fixing any errors in your rules until there are no errors listed in the Validation dialog box.

Note:

See Validation Errors and Warnings for details on the errors and warnings that may occur when validating your allocation rules.