Data Seeding
- 1 Minute to read
- Print
- DarkLight
- PDF
Data Seeding
- 1 Minute to read
- Print
- DarkLight
- PDF
Article summary
Did you find this summary helpful?
Thank you for your feedback
The term "data seeding" refers to the concept of using Planful templates and any data you load to the system to feed data in the creation of a new budget or forecast scenario. Data seeding allows you to quickly populate a new budget or forecast scenario (target) with data from another scenario (source).
Data seeding is based on the setup you perform on the Scenario Setup page. You control data seeding based on your business needs and the selections you make. For example, seed Operational Budgets from the Top Down Business Rules engine. Or, create a scenario by pulling data from multiple scenarios.
See the Guide to Loading Data to Planful
Tip!
Instead of seeding a scenario, copy and change the Forecast scenario. You will have had to Seed your original Forecast scenario from that years' Budget scenario, but then you can just copy the Scenarios after that. That means that all the scenarios are only dependent on the original Budget from which the 1st one was seeded. And, you can delete them all individually.
Was this article helpful?