Selecting Business Rules

You can associate business rules with a form, by cube. Users can launch associated business rules from the form to calculate values. You can set whether each business rule associated with a form automatically launches when the form is opened or saved.

To select business rules for forms:

1. Take an action:

   • To update the current form, click Actions, and then click Business Rules.

   • To open a form for editing, go to the Home page and click the Navigator icon , and then under Create and Manage, click Forms. Select the form, click , and then click Business Rules.

2. From the Cube drop-down menu, select the cube.
3. From the Business Rules list, select the business rules to associate with the form, and move them to Selected Business Rules.

   By default, the Calculate Form business rule is selected. Calculate Form is automatically created for forms to calculate subtotals. You can clear Calculate Form to prevent users from calculating data in forms.

   Caution: If the form layout has Dynamic Calc members, Calculate Form will take longer to run. Additionally, it may not be required, because Dynamic Calc members are calculated during processing.

   In addition, you can access the Calculate function from Configurable Calculations. See Working with Configurable Calculations.

   1. On the Home page, click Application, and then click Consolidation.

   2. Select a user-configurable rule, such as Final Calculation.

      Calculation Manager opens in a different browser tab.

   3. From the Actions menu, select Database Properties, expand and select the Consol cube, then click Calculation.

4. To change the order of selected business rules (the order in which rules display and launch), select a business rule in Selected Business Rules and click the up or down arrow to move it up or down in the list. The rule listed first displays and launches first; the rule at the bottom of the list displays and launches last.
5. To set business rule properties, click Properties.
6. Click Save to save your work and continue creating or editing the form, or click Finish to save your work and close the form.