BDA Capital and Project Planning Release Notes 2024.03.07.1
BDA Core Technology Compatibility
This version needs at-least Core Technology 2024 02 22 01
OneStream Version Compatibility
This version is confirmed to work with OneStream version 6.3.x to 8.1.x
BDA Capital and Project Planning and Extensible dimensions (1)
If you are installing BDA Capital and Project Planning on a fresh application, Capital dimensions will get attached to the RootDim and using extensibility in these dimensions will be difficult. Keep in mind that on an existing application if you have a Top member in (UD1-UD8), Capital dimensions will use the dimension that has the "Top" member as the inherited dimension.
- Perform this check before installing the product.
Notes
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If you are coming from a previous version that does not have "BDA Capital and Project Planning Client Content" Maintenance Unit.
- Please download and upload Create CTP_CPX Client Content.xml to the target.
- Go to Business Rules and execute the rule to create the client content.
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If you are coming from a version that still uses "BDA_SolutionEngineKey" to add Admin users to Capital model.
- Please download and upload SolutionKey MigrationRule.xml to the target.
- Go to Business Rules and execute the rule to migrate old solution engine key users to new relational model.
Reserved Keywords
The following keywords cannot be used in BDA solutions (Columns aliases, member names)
- ID
- CalcUnit
- Calc Unit
- UnitName
- Unit Name
Cube View updates needed coming to this release
If you are coming from a version prior to 2023.08.31.01, please go through the corresponding release note for the updates.
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New Features
- Advanced Calculations in Capital
- Advanced calculations reference business rule
Improved Functionality
Issues
Resolved
- Bug ID [IN#01133]: Fixed an issue with .33/.33/.33 spend pattern. Calculation will now include more significant digits for accuracy in behavior.
Known
- Bug ID [IN#01140]: Capital Bug reports Capital Unit Review missing Allocated To Expenses for receiving Calc Units
Detailed New Features
Advanced Calculations in Capital model
Use Case Capital had a defined set of calculations and could only perform those calculations, advanced calculations were not possible,=.
With this release of Capital, you can configure, calculations and drivers similar to how you do that in Compensation and Travel planning.
Calculations
Configuration task for Depreciation planning is updated to have "Calculations & Formulas" task.
The calcs shown above are in-built.
You can add new calculations like how you do in Compensation Planning. The following categories are supported.
Note: (Inherit) is only applicable to in-built calculations, it means these calculations will inherit the items from Asset Category Assumptions Task.
The following sub-categories are supported.
Note: Entering monthly/annual assumptions are not supported in this release.
Detailed Improved Functionality
Upcoming Features
Enable notifications
An option to enable notifications for Administrators for the following.
- Calculation unit addition
- User Management changes
- Data Load
Solution Management
- An option to uninstall Capital and Project Planning.
- An option to update/revert client configuration parameters.
Installation and Configuration Instructions
Installation
Info
The below steps must be performed for both a fresh install or an upgrade from a previous version.
- Make sure that at least one valid workflow profile is setup and selected ahead of installing the BDA Capital and Project Planning.
- If you are coming from a previous version that does not have "BDA Capital and Project Planning Client Content" Maintenance Unit, please talk to Product team about migrating the Config parameters to the "BDA Capital and Project Planning Client Content" Maintenance Unit.
- If you are coming from a version that still uses "BDA_SolutionEngineKey" to add Admin users to Capital model, please talk to Product team about migrating the admin users to the latest relational model.
- Upload Zip File into Application -> Load/Extract -> Load
- Once completed, navigate to OnePlace -> Dashboards -> BDA Capital and Project Planning Setup
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Click on dashboard BDA CPX Install
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Click the button "Click to Install/Update BDA Capital and Project Planning".
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Once successful, you should see the following screen.