@XWRITE

The following terminology is used to describe the @XWRITE function:

Data source: the database on which the current calculation is running (that is, the database on which the @XWRITE call originates).
Data target: the database that is updated by @XWRITE. This database may be remote (that is, on a different machine than the data source).
Point of view: the member combination currently being calculated on the data source.

This function writes to data blocks, either in the same database or in a remote database, while calculating a block in the current database. @XWRITE does not impose member and dimension mapping restrictions, which means that the data source and data target outlines can be different.

As arguments, this function takes a location alias, an implied list of members that represents the current point of view, and an optional list of members to qualify @XWRITE on the data target. The second argument (the members making up the current point of view) is implied; that is, these members are not specified as an @XWRITE parameter. An @XWRITE that omits the third argument indicates that a given data point in the data source will be set to the same data point in the data target.

Syntax

There are multiple ways to call this function, depending on your goal.

To incorporate values from a remote cube, use:

@XWRITE (expression, locationAlias [, mbrList])

To incorporate values from another application and database on the same Essbase server instance, use:

@XWRITE (expression, appname, dbname [, mbrList])

Parameters

expression

A single member specification, variable name, or other numeric expression corresponding to the value to be stored.

locationAlias

A location alias for the data target. A location alias is not needed if the source and target are on the same Essbase server instance.

If used, the location alias must be set on the database on which the calculation script will be run. The location alias is set by the database administrator and specifies a server, application, database, username, and password for the data target.

The same location alias can be used by both @XREF and @XWRITE. For @XREF, it represents the data source, and for @XWRITE it represents the data target.

For @XWRITE only, a reserved keyword @LOOPBACK can be used to write to the same database.

mbrList

Optional. A comma-delimited list of member names that qualify the @XWRITE operation. The members you specify for mbrList, in addition to the members in the current point of view in the data source, determine what is written to the data target. The data target is written to using the following calculation logic (in order of precedence):

The members specified in mbrList
The members in the current point of view
The top member in any unspecified dimensions in the data target

Therefore, the remote member list is calculated and written using members from current point of view, overridden with members from the mbrList specified to @XWRITE, and if some dimensions are still absent at the data target, the top most dimension of the data target is used.

See Notes for more information about the mbrList parameter.

appname, dbname

Application and cube name. Use only for deployments with only one Essbase server instance.

Notes

You must be signed in on the data target, and also provisioned on the data source.
This function is applicable only to block storage databases.
An error is returned if the members supplied in mbrList do not exist in the data target.
The member list cannot contain functions that return more than one member. For example @LEVMBRS(Market,0).
The member list cannot contain ranges.
The member list cannot contain attribute members or attribute operators.
@XWRITE is a top-down formula. For more information on top-down formulas, see Bottom-Up and Top-Down Calculation.
@XWRITE to dynamic calc cells is not recommended; the data is calculated in memory, but not written.
@XWRITE can be used in calculation scripts as well as outline member formulas.

Example

The following Sample Basic formula writes the 100-30 values into 100-20 on the same database.


FIX (East, Actual, Budget, Sales)
"100-30" (
@XWRITE("100-30", @loopback, "100-20");
)
ENDFIX

The following Sample Basic formula writes the 100-30 values into 100-20 on a remote database, Sample2 Basic, using the location alias "sam2basic" defined from Sample Basic to Sample2 Basic.


FIX (East, Actual, Budget, Sales)
"100-30" (
@XWRITE("100-30", sam2basic, "100-20");
)
ENDFIX

The following example shows how to call another function within the @XWRITE function call.


FIX (East, Actual, Budget, Sales)
"100" (
 @XWRITE(@PARENT("100-30"), @loopback, "100-20");
 )
ENDFIX