1. User's Guide
  2. Adjusting and Spreading Data
  3. Spreading Values Using Grid Spread

Spreading Values Using Grid Spread

If your administrator has enabled Grid Spread as a form property, you can specify an amount or percentage by which Oracle Hyperion Planning increases or decreases values across multiple dimensions on the form, based on the existing values in the target cells. You immediately see the result in the form and can save the new data or discard it. When calculating the spread data, Planning ignores read-only and locked cells and cells that have supporting detail. Data integrity is ensured by spreading values only to cells to which you have access.

Note:

The Time Balance property setting affects how data is spread with the Fill option. See How Spreading Data Works.

To spread values using Grid Spread:

  1. Place the cursor in the Subtotal or Total source cell whose value you want to spread to target cells.
  2. Select Edit, and then Grid Spread.
  3. Perform an action:

    • To increase or decrease values by a specified amount, from Adjust Data, select By Value, select Increase by or Decrease by, and then enter the value to spread.

    • To increase or decrease values by a percentage, from Adjust Data, select By Percentage, select Increase by or Decrease by, and then enter the value.

    • To replace values, enter the new value in the Spread Value text box.

  4. Select a spreading pattern::

    • Proportional spread: Spreads the value proportionally, based on the existing values in the target cells (default).

    • Evenly split: Spreads the value evenly among the target cells.

    • Fill: Replaces the value in all target cells.

  5. Click Spread.

    The specified value or percentage is spread across the target cells, replacing former values with new ones.

  6. To save the new values, click Save.