Need support with Time Management using DCA

Question

Can anyone help me what's the best way to identify -  Current Year Current Quarter, Current Year Previous Quarter, Previous Year Current Quarter using DCA and Boolean.

rob_marshall · Accepted Answer

@SudhirY

You can do this in two modules, one for Quarter and one for Year.

First, make sure you Current Period is set in the Time Settings

The module for Quarter should be only dimensionalized by Time (a SYS Time - Quarter module) at the Quarter level.  Create these three line items:

Do the same thing for Current Year

Now, you can create a module to use your DCA basing it off these values.

Rob

rob_marshall · Accepted Answer

@SudhirY

Yes, I do see issues with what you did. because you are nesting the NEXT function and making Hyperblock work harder for every calculation.  Instead, I would break it up and do this

Create two line items:

Previous Year/Previous Quarter mbr:'Current Period' - 5         (formatted as Quarter)
Previous Year/Previous Quarter?: item(time)='Previous Year/Previous Quarter mbr'        (formatted as Boolean)