Dear All,
Yesterday while using the Manage data function in HFM we encountered a large amount of data loss. Let me explain.
Our goal was to copy Non Financial accounts Entity Currency data from one budget scenario to another budget scenario. See the below screenshot. While this happened correctly an unintended consequence was that the financial accounts data got erased. So the budgeting team had to end up redoing their budgets again. My question is when we are telling the system to only copy the Non Financial data why would the system even touch the Financial data?? This does not seem right at all.
Later when I was doing testing I changed the above Replace to a Merge and then the system only changed the Non Financial data and kept the Financial data intact. If this is indeed how it works it is very confusing to say the least and does not make sense.
The point being that when we are specifying the account to be replaced or merged why does the system even touch the non-specified accounts? Is this a system bug or its just the way it works? Will appreciate an insight please.