SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3629391 - SAC - Adding a New Member Overwrites the Comment Dimension

Symptom

  • In the SAC Planning Story, the member of the Comment dimension is being overwritten by a newly added member.
  • When a new member is added using an existing data combination, the comment entered for the new member overwrites the comment previously entered for the original data combination.

Environment

  • SAP ANALYTICS CLOUD

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Open the SAC planning story.
  2. Input the comment in one of the rows. 
  3. Add member from dimension cost center.
  4. Input the member of dimension cost center.
  5. Change the comment of the new combination of data, the comment is copied to other cost centers.

Cause

This is the standard behavior of the dimension comment.

Resolution

The behavior is by design. 

When working with dimension comments, the dimension comment context is taken into account. This context includes all dimensions defined in the dimension comment formula, whether they are specified in the row axis or in a filter. If you add or remove dimensions, existing dimension comments will remain visible as long as their original context has not changed.

Dimension comments will also appear for each member of a dimension placed in the row axis if that dimension is not defined in the dimension comment formula. In such cases, the same dimension comment will be displayed across members that share the same context.

Additionally, if multiple values are pasted into comment cells sharing the same context, the last pasted value will prevail and be shown in all such cells (will overwrite existing ones).

See Also

Keywords

comment dimension, sac planning story, data combination, overwrite, dimension comment formula, context, sap analytics cloud, dimension comments, multiple values, comment cells , KBA , LOD-ANA-PL-DPC , Data Point and Dimension Commenting , LOD-ANA-TAB , Table , LOD-ANA-PL , Planning , Problem

Product

SAP Analytics Cloud 1.0