Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Amer Shahnawaz

Patrick John Baumgartner

Peter Eberhardy

LuMing Wang

Mark Xiaohong Yang

Alisson A S Sol

Alisson Sol

Techniques to manage information for dynamic reports are described. An apparatus may comprise a business planning application module to update a current period reference to a time member of a time dimension, generate a rolling data entry form with actual data members and forecast data members based on the current period reference, and set a data locking mode for the actual data members and a data access mode for the forecast data members. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques to manage information for dynamic reports using time periods for a business model

A computer-implemented method includes selecting a first member of a first dimension of a database to be included at a first location in a report. The first member includes first data to be retrieved from the database. A blank space to be added at a second location relative to the first member is also selected. A database query is generated that includes a first instruction to retrieve first data included in the first member. The first instruction is located at a first position in the query and the first data will appear in the report at the first location. The database query also includes a second instruction to retrieve a null set of data. The second instruction is located at a second position in the query and the null set of data will appear in the report at the second location.

Rendering database queries with blank space

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