So I haven’t written to my blog since long and that’s just
because I just did not find anything worthwhile all these days. Today I
encountered a strange issue. So I thought to share with you guys.
We had a Planning web form set to input data. No Business
Rules or calc scripts attached. Just an input form.
The issue : Every time any user enters the data into the form
it says the data is saved but does not show up the data.
Causes: Probably one would think this might be a simple case
of Implied Sharing or usage of a label only parent member with one of the
single child only hierarchy in the form.. sure thing .. SO DID I!!
Its simpler than that!
Another weird behaviour: data is saved and reflects in the web form
when I enter and submit through the Smart View Planning add-in
So what is the issue: the layout of the web form!
The data form was designed to check data values at CurrYr
and NextYr. However the current year and next year were both set to the same
value. In such a case when you enter the value in the current year intersection
it just doesn't save. Now at this point I am not sure why but the strangest part is that if you enter that very same value under the NextYr column it reflects in both CurrYr and NextYr columns, so basically its just taking up the last value at the form. So either you need to remove the NextYr Column or set
Next Yr to a different value to allow it to save through the web form properly.
In my case I did the latter and whoa!! Data saves now…
Amazingly the same did not give me any trouble with saving data through Smart
View. This issue is only specific to Planning. Now meanwhile when I am analyzing the strange behavior... do throw in your opinion guys.. J
Cheers!!
Anvi