2943469 - Carry forward Data Action issue in in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)

The user is facing a problem related to a data action that is supposed to calculate a numeric closing balance that is dependent on the opening balance and a cash flow. This ending balance is supposed to be carried forward to the next opening balance (e.g. closing balance of previous day equals opening balance of the following day). Although closing balance and opening balance match, the data action (carry forward logic) seems to ignore changes resulting from the cash flow.

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Execute a Data Action Carry Forward

•  Bug program
• The root cause is that the CARRYFORWARD() function does not work correctly if a dimension has an empty member (as Figure 1) and it's defined at MEMBERSET explicitly or implicitly.
• The current values in the table is with the empty member ID of the dimension "Created_On". For this reason, nothing happen due to the root cause.

This CARRYFORWARD() issue was fixed in Wave 2020.13.

The workaround could be that:

• It will work if customer set the non-empty member ID like "MEMBERSET [d/Created_On] = ("2000-01-01")" 
• NOTE: The corresponding initial data which has the empty member ID of the dimension "Created_On" would be unavailable since calculation scope is changed to "2000-01-01" for example.

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