CORPORATE PLANNER

To run interactively, you must select a file. The application will generate an Error report if it encounters any errors. You can then terminate or continue the process to transfer valid data into the final budget table. Click Import Budget Amounts to Costpoint on the Action menu to transfer valid data from the working table to the main Costpoint table. 

There are two ways to work with input files in Costpoint

If you decide to use the first option, click in the File Location field to select an alternate file location. If you choose the second option, leave the File Location field blank and use the File Upload Manager to upload the input file to the Costpoint database.

Location

Identification

Use the fields in this block to create a new parameter ID or to retrieve a previously saved parameter ID. A parameter ID represents a set of screen selection parameters. After you have saved a parameter ID and its related parameters, you can retrieve them using Query.

You can use the retrieved parameters to produce reports and run processes more efficiently and with greater consistency. The saved parameters are also useful and necessary when you want to run the process as part of a batch job. Many users save a unique set of parameters for each different way they run a report or process. When you select a previously saved parameter ID or parameter description, the associated saved screen selection parameters automatically display as selection defaults. The page setup and print options are also included in the saved parameter ID if there are any. You can change any of the associated selection defaults as necessary.

Parameter ID

Enter, or click to select, a parameter ID of up to 15 alphanumeric characters. Choose characters for your parameter ID that help identify the type of selections you made in the screen, such as PERIOD or QUARTERLY.

When you save your record, all the selections made in the screen are stored with the parameter ID. Later, you can retrieve the parameter using Query.

You can use the parameter to run the process more efficiently because you can select the parameter ID with its previously defined screen selections. After the default selections display in the screen, you can override the defaults.

Description

Enter, or click to select, a parameter description of up to 30 alphanumeric characters.

File Location

Enter the location of the input file you are importing. There are two ways to do this:

After you have selected the location and file and made all your parameter selections on this screen, click to import the file. See Process for more information.

File Name

Enter, or click to select, the file name.

Partial Upload

If you want a full upload, leave this check box cleared (the default). Select this check box if you want a partial upload.

Fiscal Year

Enter, or click to select, the fiscal year.

Revision ID

Enter, or click to select, the revision ID.

If there are any records in the main table (ORG_ACCT_BUD) for the fiscal year and revision ID selected, Costoint displays a message asking if you want to overwrite the existing data.

If you selected the Partial Upload check box, only those rows for which new budget data has been provided are overwritten. For a full upload, Costpoint deletes all existing budgets for the fiscal year and revision and replaces them with the new information.

Assign Corresponding Column Info from Input file to Costpoint Period and Other Columns

Header Row

Select this check box if a header row is present in the input file. If you select this check box, Costpoint ignores the first row and starts the process from the second row. It also ignorse the corresponding rows if the header row is repeated in the input file(s).

Account

Enter the column in the input file that contains the account ID. The file must contain valid Costpoint accounts, optionally followed by a space and the name (for example, "1000-001" or "1000-001 Petty Cash").

Organization

Enter the column in the input file that contains the organization ID. The file must contain valid Costpoint organization IDs, optionally followed by a space and the name (for example, "1.01.01" or "1.01.01 McLean office").

PD1 - PD18

Use these fields to identify which column numbers in the input file contain the period budget amounts. The correct number of text boxes will be enabled depending on the fiscal year selected and the number of periods.  The column numbers do not need to be sequential (for example, you can have quarterly total columns and a year-to-date total), but there must be enough columns of data in the input file to support the column numbers referenced, and there must be a budget amount for each period.

Ignore Rows Where Column      Contains __

Identify rows (such as subtotal or total lines) that should not be processed as budget data, based on the contents of a given column or columns. The contents of two separate columns can be analyzed, and you can enter multiple values for each one.

If you enter invalid data, Costpoint displays the following warning message:

"You are trying to enter a number that is bigger than the number of columns in the input file. (The maximum column number is 16.)"

Process

Click Import Budget Amounts to Costpoint on the Action menu to move valid data to the main Costpoint table. For a full load, if there are any records in the main table for that particular fiscal year and revision ID, Costpoint deletes those records from the main table and inserts new records from the input file. For a partial load, only those rows where the account and org are in the intermediate table are replaced.  

Screen Messages and Error Messages

You have tried to add the same file more than once into the final file list box.

There are already records in ORG_ACCT_BUD for the FY_CD and GL_BUD_RVSN_ID combination.

<File name with path>

Would you like to proceed with Processing of valid files? Note: Invalid files will be removed from selected list.

The input file(s) has fewer columns than the number of Costpoint periods.

None of the input files has enough columns for the number of Costpoint periods.

You tried to enter a column number more than once. You cannot leave the field until you change the number.

You entered a number that is greater than the maximum number of columns available in the input file(s), or you entered a three-digit number.

You must complete entry in the current field before moving to another field.

You forgot to enter information in some of the fields before processing.

You entered a column number in the Ignore rows where Column field but did not enter the text to search for in the Contains field. You must make entries in both fields.

You entered text in the Contains field but did not enter a column number in the Ignore rows where Column field.  You must make entries in both fields.

If Costpoint encountered any errors while reading the input file or validating the Acct, Org, or Acct/Org combinations, it displays an error report. If you close the error report and there is valid data to process, this message displays.

There is data in the intermediate table from the previous operation.

Valid data has been moved successfully to the intermediate table.

Valid data has been imported successfully.