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Is there a way to change the names of the LEVELS on a Department or Location OBS, such as from Country to Business Unit?

  • 1.  Is there a way to change the names of the LEVELS on a Department or Location OBS, such as from Country to Business Unit?

    Posted Sep 08, 2015 01:20 PM

    Is there a way to change the names of the LEVELS on a Department or Location OBS, such as from Country to Business Unit?



  • 2.  Re: Is there a way to change the names of the LEVELS on a Department or Location OBS, such as from Country to Business Unit?
    Best Answer

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Sep 08, 2015 02:19 PM

    Not through the UI.

    I think you might be able to do it with XOG? (I have not tried this)

    Perform a XOG read of the entire structure, make the modifications and try to XOG in as an update and see if it changes it.

    Test on a non-prod system and let me know if this helps.

    After doing this, be sure to run the 'Datamart Extraction' job.



  • 3.  Re: Is there a way to change the names of the LEVELS on a Department or Location OBS, such as from Country to Business Unit?

    Posted Sep 08, 2015 04:01 PM

    I might not be  possible in a supported manner.

    You must have already established that in OBS area the data for the financials OBS*s is not editable and in Departments and Locations the level information is not displayed.

    If you XOG out eg departments which would be the supported way

     

         <Department delegate_invoice_approval="0" department_code="zDel_dep2" dept_manager_code="mKinnunen" entity="CGUC" short_description="zDel_dep2">
            <Description>Child departmetn for deletaton test</Description>
            <LocationAssociations>
              <LocationAssociation locationcode="zTest_deletetion2"/>
            </LocationAssociations>
            <Subscriptions/>
            <Budget currency_code="USD" is_fcst_eq_bdgt="1"/>
            <CustomInformation>
              <ColumnValue name="partition_code">NIKU.ROOT</ColumnValue>
            </CustomInformation>
          </Department>

    you do not have the level information. The data is presented hierarchically.

     

    If you XOG out the OBS you would get the information

      <obsTypes>
        <obs code="cguc_fnancial_department" description="CGUC Financial Department" isSecurity="false" name="CGUC Financial Department">
          <level depth="1" name="1"/>
          <level depth="2" name="2"/>
          <level depth="3" name="3"/>
          <level depth="4" name="4"/>
          <level depth="5" name="5"/>
          <level depth="6" name="6"/>
          <level depth="7" name="7"/>
          <level depth="8" name="8"/>
          <level depth="9" name="9"/>
          <level depth="10" name="10"/>
          <level depth="11" name="11"/>
          <level depth="12" name="12"/>
          <level depth="13" name="13"/>
          <level depth="14" name="14"/>
          <level depth="15" name="15"/>
          <level depth="16" name="16"/>
          <level depth="17" name="17"/>
          <objectAssociation associationType="Any Unit" object="application"/>

     

    Typically that is written before the OBS structure is defined to be used as a financial structure and I have not written a financial OBS after that point. Only before it was defined as a financial structure.

    As Kathryn says you can try that in and environment which you can corrupt if things go wrong.



  • 4.  Re: Is there a way to change the names of the LEVELS on a Department or Location OBS, such as from Country to Business Unit?

    Posted Sep 08, 2015 04:08 PM

    Thanks to both of you for your quick response.

     

    Regards,

     

    Mark

     

     

     

    Mark W. Casey

    IT-PMO Manager, Americas

    Schenker Logistics, a Division of Schenker, Inc.

    469-644-5834 Cell

    mark.casey@dbschenker.com



  • 5.  Re: Is there a way to change the names of the LEVELS on a Department or Location OBS, such as from Country to Business Unit?

    Posted Sep 10, 2015 04:02 AM

    In another thread

    Jeanne_Gaskill_CA_Clarity_Support

    says

     

    "If you can't successfully make a change in Clarity, xog should be unsuccessful as well by design."

    See

    How to add values to a system restricted lookup?

    that makes the chances to look not so good.

     

    Any if you decide to try it please keep us educated.



  • 6.  Re: Is there a way to change the names of the LEVELS on a Department or Location OBS, such as from Country to Business Unit?

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Sep 11, 2015 11:51 AM

    Yes, thanks for reminding me.  Typically XOG follows UI design for most functionality.

    There are some exceptions ; but this may not be one of them ; it may follow the UI functionality.



  • 7.  Re: Is there a way to change the names of the LEVELS on a Department or Location OBS, such as from Country to Business Unit?

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Sep 11, 2015 12:10 PM

    I may be missing something here but couldn't you click Admin - OBS and change the level names? In the example below, I changed Country to Business Unit.

    OBS-LEVEL-NAME-CHANGE.JPG



  • 8.  Re: Is there a way to change the names of the LEVELS on a Department or Location OBS, such as from Country to Business Unit?

    Posted Sep 12, 2015 02:33 AM

    One of us definitely missing something.

    In this  system it simply ain't editable if it is used as a financial structure.

    Go back to the OBS list and screenshot what you see there



  • 9.  Re: Is there a way to change the names of the LEVELS on a Department or Location OBS, such as from Country to Business Unit?

    Posted Sep 14, 2015 12:11 AM

    I guess, the one from Damon is not linked to entity, but, yours is. Just a thought

     

    NJ



  • 10.  Re: Is there a way to change the names of the LEVELS on a Department or Location OBS, such as from Country to Business Unit?

    Posted Sep 14, 2015 09:49 AM

    Hi Urmas - Yours may be a permission issue. Be sure that you have the correct administrative priveleges set. I have an OBS that isn't associated to any entities and I am able to edit the level names.



  • 11.  Re: Is there a way to change the names of the LEVELS on a Department or Location OBS, such as from Country to Business Unit?

    Posted Sep 14, 2015 12:13 PM

    Ain't "an OBS that isn't associated to any entities" exactly the same as "it simply ain't editable if it is used as a financial structure."