More About Supporting Detail

Supporting Detail helps you build and understand the assumptions behind data in a form.

For example, you can add Supporting Detail for Pens: ballpoint, fountain, marker, and so on. The Pen member can then display the total for all pen types.

About Supporting Detail:

• Cells with Supporting Detail have a teal background.

• Supporting Detail does not add members to the form or change its organization.

• You must have write permission to cells that you create Supporting Detail for.

• To protect the Supporting Detail, the aggregate values in cells having Supporting Detail are read-only.

• You can add Supporting Detail to target and bottom-up versions.

• You can add Supporting Detail only to base time periods (level-0 members). You can’t add Supporting Detail to Summary Time Periods, such as Quarters.

• Number and precision formatting is not reflected in the Supporting Detail window.

• The sequence of operators follows the same logic as is used to process multiple operators in a complex calculation. See Order of Supporting Detail.

• You can print Supporting Detail.

• Your administrator can use the Copy Versions functionality to copy Supporting Detail from one version to another.

• Your administrator can copy data, including Supporting Detail, from one dimensional intersection to another. For example, administrators can copy Budget, FY19, Final to Forecast, FY20, First Draft.