Hi,
A new function is available that supposedly enables easy what-if modelling in BPC. This sounds great because currently for what-if analysis, you need to duplicate data in the database (using differnet categories or data sources) which can be time consuming and impact overall performance.
Has anyone got any experience with this EPMDriverBasedRefresh function? There is some documentation on SAP's userguide but there are no specifics on the type of logic that is supported for scenario outputs i.e. is it only Member Formula Logic (Account 1 x Account 2 = Account 3), or can it support more complex scenarios such as running through Default Logic (and any BAdIs you may have) to retrieve the modelled output? (This would be awesome!)
32.20 has the detail in the userguide: https://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boeo10/en/EPMofc_10_user_en.pdf
and it says:
"This function enables you to refresh specific rows or columns of one or more reports, based on a specified range of data drivers whose values you can modify.
Additionally, you can specify to refresh a whole report that is outside of the specified range of data drivers.This function can be used for example for what-if analysis."
My testing has found that it does not run default logic (where our driver-based calculation BAdI is called).
Any experience from fellow SDNers would be much apprecited! Otherwise I'll put a call into SAP to get the documentation expanded a little.
Cheers,
Nick