Timeline recursion does not skip summaries
The enclosed model contains a timeline (Year/Month). In the “Closing UPR Assumption” matrix, I compute the “Calculation” item using a weighted average of the last twelve “Base” items (the weights are in a matrix called “Closing UPR Rate”). The formula is as follows:
Calculation:Month[THIS] = sumproduct(Base:Month[THIS-11] .. Base:Month[THIS],Closing UPR Rate::Closing UPR Rate%)
The problem is that the “Base:Month[THIS-11] .. Base:Month[THIS]” recursion does not skip the Sum of Months, which is a summary item. The result becomes totally distorted as a consequence.
I would like to recursion to skip the “Sum of Months” items in the Base item row. The recursion should compute using only genuine months.
Is there a way to do this ?
Thanks a lot
Dear Rich,
A big thank you, this is very instructive and a clever way to resolve the issue. I agree that summary items could be better configured to avoid such problems. I will try your solution, and I will also try another way, which is to unlink the timeline only in this calculation matrix (not ideal but easy) and removing the Summary in that calculation matrix. Again, thanks a lot for your help.
Regards
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