Predict: How Signal Generation Works

There are certain functionality rules for Signal generation. For example, when the cell count of a report is below six thousand cells, the Signals are generated immediately. But when the cell count of a report is between six thousand and ten thousand cells, the Signal generation will take a long time. For such an instance, a pop-up will be shown to the user asking permission to continue the Signal generation process or cancel it.

Following are the situations when the Signals will not be generated :

• Signals for prior months, quarters, or years (fiscal year) are not generated when they are a part of the Dynamic Report for which Signals are being generated. Signals will only be generated for the data from the current period onwards in the Dynamic Report.
• For all the following situations, the Show Signals button is disabled, and the reason for not generating Signals is shown as an information tooltip upon hovering over the disabled button.

  • When the cell count is greater than ten thousand cells. You can reduce the report size and try to generate the Signals.

    

  • When there are dimension attributes in any axis. Similarly, when a Report Set consists of dimension attributes.
    

  • When the Report Set type is Dynamic . Only Static type report sets are supported.
    

  • When there are multiple scenarios or there is the All scenario on the page axis.
    

  • When there are multiple time members or there is the All Time member on the page axis.
    

  • When the selected scenario on any axis contains only Actuals data.
    

  • When there are custom members in the scenario dimension.
    

Following are the situations when Signals will be generated only for the supported cells :

• When there are row/column headers. The header cells for both row and column headers do not support Signals.

• When there are formulas in rows and columns. Dynamic Reports allow inserting formula cells that can contain comments or formulas; these cells do not support Signals.

• When a cell is a subtotal/grand-total of data in other cells. Dynamic Reports supports total cells that are summations of row or column data; such cells will not support Signals.

• When there are non-set-based complex member formula rules. Advanced custom members that are not set-based will also not support Signals.

• When there is actual data on either the row or the column axis. Signals are not supported on actuals data. If a report has a combination of actuals and budget/forecast or other scenario data, Signals will be generated only for the non-actual data.

The following Report Set configurations are supported:

• Single Dimension - Single Member

• Single Dimension - Multiple Member

• Multiple Dimension - Single Member

• In the Advanced tab, following configurations are supported:

  • Single Dimension - Single Member

  • Single Dimension - Multiple Member, only if the SUM function is used.

  • Multiple Dimension - Single Member, only if the formula is specified as a tuple () with comma separated values.