Groovy Series 3: Managing attributes via forms
Attribute dimensions are a boon when it comes to tabbed reporting or running member specific calculations or filtering data based on attributes but their management is bigger pain. In case these attributes require a regular update or association to newly created member on the fly, the only option is to go into dimensions and update them. Sometimes these could be challenge when users are new to Planning and taking baby steps in administering the whole application. All they could expect is a webform where all members and their associated attributes are listed to review and update, if required. Today’s post is going to talk about how metadata management could be made easy for new to Planning (PBCS) administrators by leveraging groovy. In this example, we have a project dimension with hierarchies for existing and new projects. Each project is grouped into domestic or international project tracked by an attribute dimension – Project Category and to determine whether project should be consid...