Purpose of Breakback

Breakback is a spreading method where you provide data at a parent level and then Dynamic Planning allocates it down to leaf levels. It is an alternate way of inputting data by entering a total amount at a consolidated level and allowing Dynamic Planning to allocate that amount back to all the participating cells related to the consolidated cell.

Since Dynamic Planning does not allow data to be entered at a parent level and saved, without Breakback, you would have to enter each leaf-level data item and then run an aggregation. Breakback lets you start with the top level and provide the desired target data or percentage change in the current data, then it allocates the data down, saves the changes, and optionally runs a calculation.

You can also run Breakback at a leaf level. Only the leaf member that is selected is changed, but if there is a parent level on one of the other axis of the view or report, the data is spread throughout that hierarchy.