200 - Building a Planning Solution in Board - Version entity is empty?

Giles Corner

Hi team,

I've had a query from one of our trainees at a Partner, the "Version" entity in their datamodel is empty (no members) and I can't see within the training where this should have been populated. Users are not asked to build a data-reader to populate OR manually add members to this entity, can you advise?

Thanks,

Giles

TJ Barber

Hey Giles,
This is in reference to a step in Module 204: Build the sales Data Model. Currently the version Entity is set up to be for future proofing the solution. We don't use it for the Level 200 build but it's in place so that a user can use it for adding versioning in Level 300.

This has caused a bit of confusion and I'm going to talk with the team about it's removal or reworking in the content. For now, you can let the Partner know they haven't built anything wrong or missed anything, the Entity is currently just a best practice add for future expansions.

#Level 200: Building a Planning Solution

Crystal Zhao

Hi Giles,

That's a great point. The actual Version should only be populated with one entity: Budget. I also was not able to find exactly where it tells you to add "Budget" as an entity member, but a screenshot in 206: "Build a Procedure to propagate the PY sales data to budget" has the member Budget - Budget on step 5: "Select budget version."

Giles Corner

Hi @TJ Barber , thanks for the response, this is causing issues further on in 206 as that asks the trainee to build a cube structured by Version and flow data in.

TJ Barber

Ah, I follow now, it is an error in the training, I will update it and have a new verison pushed out in the next day or so.

Jeremy Hall

Yeah, I just had to create it myself as it was missing that step prior to being told to select it. It definitely caused some confusion!