Recently I was having a tough time using EPM Automate to update a substitution variable. This member name had spaces and I needed to then utilize that variable in a calculation. It did not appear to be documented in the guide so I thought I would share my solution.
I needed to set the value of a subvar to “Dyn M2 Fcst”. This was an existing piece of metadata and I did not have the luxury of changing the name.
The first time I ran EPM Automate my command looked like:
epmautomate setsubstvars ALL “AutoReportScen=Dyn M2 FCST”This updated the variable in PBCS and I thought I was done, however when I tried to use it in a calc script of course it did not work because Essbase thought my member name was “Dyn”.
I then tried :
epmautomate setsubstvars ALL AutoReportScen=”Dyn M2 FCST”Again it worked successfully, but the variable displayed in PBCS as:
I was still unable to utilize the variable for anything in the application.
After a few different combinations I finally found the correct one.
epmautomate setsubstvars ALL “AutoReportScen=””Dyn M2 FCST”””
That is correct I have 3 sets of quotation marks. Two are around the variable value and one set around the complete variable and value combination.
Here is how it looks in PBCS:
Now that I had the quotes around the member name everything downstream worked great!
Here is what the command looked like in the command prompt:
I hope this helps and saves you some time!!
