Editing, Inserting Different Revisions, or Using BI Essentials in Time Analysis

You can edit a Time Analysis, insert a different revision, or show the revision status for a particular analysis within the dialog box.

This task shows you how to:

See Also
Creating a Time Analysis
Time Analysis Dialog Box

Edit a Time Analysis

You edit a time analysis in the Time Analysis dialog box, where you have full capability to define or change the details of a time analysis.

  1. Perform one of these actions to open the dialog box:
    • Click Edit Time Analysis , in the action bar.
    • Right-click and then choose Edit Time Analysis.
    • Double-click the Time Analysis.
      Note: Work with a Universal Analyzing System (UAS) Time Analysis in this example.
  2. Click Calculate.

    Your changes update.

  3. Click Apply to save.
    To edit another time analysis from the same subsystem in the tree, click the time analysis, then edit it in the Time Analysis Details dialog box.
  4. Click OK to save and close the analysis.

    If you want to automatically save your data, in Preferences, general tab, click Save Time Analysis on Each Modification.

    The Time Analysis Update window appears stating, Do you want to update impacted time analyses?. Changes in a time analysis are done click OK. This prompts you whether to propagate the changes to all time analyses in the database where current time analysis reuses.

  5. In Time Analysis Update select,
    • Yes - The dialog box closes and all impacted time analysis update.
    • No - The time formula changes are not propagated to the impacted time analysis.
  6. In the Time Analysis Details dialog box, make required changes accordingly.
    You can also provide or change entries as required in the expandable panels.
    Note: See Creating a Time Analysis.

Coloring a Time Analysis (TA) Line from BI Essentials

You can color a line to show the revision status.

  1. Click Edit Time Analysis in the action bar.
  2. Choose a time analysis object from the tree, TA_UAS_3.
  3. Click the BI Essentials panel in the action bar under the Tools section and select Time Analysis Revision Status.
    In the dialog box, the TA line consisting of reused TA from an older revision colors as Time analysis not up-to-date. The TA line with the latest reused TA has no color.

    If the reused TA line is not of the latest revision, then after expansion with the contextual command Expand Row, it colors as Time analysis not up-to-date. When the TA line is exploded with the contextual command Explode Row, it no longer connects to the original TA object and coloring removes.

Replacing by Revision

You can use the Replace by revision command on an existing reused TA in a TA line.

  1. Click Edit Time Analysis in the action bar.
  2. Choose a time analysis object from the tree, TA_UAS_3.
  3. Click the BI Essentials panel in the action bar under the Tools section and select Time Analysis Revision Status.
    One of the reused TA is not up to date.
  4. Right-click the line, and select Replace by revision.


    A dialog box appears listing all the revisions of the reused TA objects.

  5. Choose the latest revision from the list and click OK.
    The TA line is updated and is no longer colored as Time analysis not up-to-date.

    If the selected reused TA does not have any revisions, an error dialog displays.

    Note: This contextual command is not available on expanded and exploded lines.

BI Essentials - Time Analysis Revision Status

You can use the BI Essentials panel, Time Analysis Revision Status that allows easy identification of the TA objects that are not up to date.

  1. Click the BI Essentials panel in the action bar under Tools section.
    The dialog box appears.
  2. Click the arrow for Choose information to reveal and select Time Analysis Revision Status.
    After activating the filter, the nodes against time analysis objects in the tree color according to the following criteria:
    • Time analysis up to date
    • Time analysis not up to date
    • Inserted time analysis not up to date

    The lines that are in the TA dialog box containing inserted time analyses that are not up-to-date are also colored according to the filter active in BI Essentials.

    If a TA is not up to date and consists of an inserted TA that is not up to date, then the TA node colors as Time analysis not up-to-date.

    Note: Revision assigns to a TA object only when the session saves for the first time. The PPR tree node corresponding to a TA object that is not saved colors as the latest revision.


Updating BI Immediately Using the Lifecycle Management App

This describes how to change the version using the Lifecycle Management app.

  1. Open a PPR having time analysis and start the B.I. Essentials.
  2. Go to North quadrant,My Social and Collaborative Apps and select Lifecycle management app.
  3. Run New Revision on your Time Analysis.


    The Color of the versioned Time analysis changes in the PPR context without closing and reopening PPR.