After you enter data, you can save the data on the server and recalculate e.List items. You can edit this data at a later date.
At any time you can also save the data locally in an Excel Workbook. You can then open the data when you are not connected to the network.
Contributor for Excel does not support tracking changes in Excel. To avoid possible problems with a Contributor-enabled worksheet or workbook, do not use this feature.
Contributor for Excel does not support protection in worksheets or in workbooks. To avoid possible problems with a Contributor-enables worksheet or workbook, do not use this feature.
If you entered a value into a cell that has a validation rule defined, and that value is outside the bounds of the specified validation rule, an explanatory or warning message is shown when you attempt to save the plan. You must correct the data before you can save it to the server.
In the Contributor Actions toolbar, click the Save button.
If errors are identified during the validation process, they are summarized in the Validation Error dialog box, which shows the location of any of the failed rules.
If the Validation Error dialog box appears, double-click the item in the dialog box.
The pointer moves to the first offending cell in the worksheet.
Make the necessary changes.
To verify that the data entries or changes conform to existing business rules and data-format restrictions, from the Contributor menu, click Validate Data.
Repeat step 2 to 4 until no errors are detected.
Save your data again.
You can continue to work on the data, or you can close the Excel Workbook. After the data is saved on the server, you are given the option to save the Excel Workbook to a file.
In Excel, from the File menu, click Save.
When you save a workbook locally, we suggest that you also save the data on the server.
You can work with one or more locally saved Contributor workbooks without being connected to the Contributor server. When you have completed your plan, you need to rejoin your centralized planning process by saving a version back to the server. When you log on to the server, Contributor downloads any late-breaking changes in your planning model and downloads the latest values from the server into your open workbook.
You have not lost your data, however. Contributor for Excel automatically preserves a separate copy of the data in your active session. As long as your Contributor for Excel session is open, you are free to reload your active data from some or all of the cubes back into your workbook. This overlays the values sent from the server, as long as the cells have not been locked by your administrator.
For example, you can do this if you must reduce the amount of money allocated for expenses. You can compare different scenarios, each held in their own workbook, before loading data back to the server.
Loading saved data to the server also lets you replace the latest data in the Contributor server with saved data. For example, if a change was made to projected sales data on the server and you want to replace the data with previous values, you can open a locally saved workbook and load the saved data back to the server.
You can load data only to cells on the server for which you have the right to edit. Data is not loaded into cells that were locked by an administrator. If cells were removed from the Contributor server since your workbook was saved, the data in these cells in the saved workbook is not loaded to the server.
Important: If substantial changes were made to the content or structure of the data on the server since you saved your workbook, it may not be practical to load the saved data to the server.
If you are logged on to the server, from the Contributor menu, click Log Off.
Open the saved workbook.
Make any changes you want to the data in the workbook.
From the Contributor menu, click Log On.
Click Yes, and then click Log On.
Enter a User id and Password.
You may be prompted to select from a list of applications. Click the application you require.
In the table, open an e.List item.
Your worksheet now appears with the latest data from the Contributor server.
From the Contributor menu, click Reassert Data.
Select the cubes containing the data that you want to load to the server from the workbook.
Select whether you want to include annotations with the cubes you selected to load from the workbook.
Click OK.
You can save calculations and any custom formatting locally as a template.
You can then send this template to other users or save it on a common server. When other users open the template in Excel and log on to Contributor, the template is populated with data from the e.List items they open. For information about using saved templates, see View Data Using Saved Templates.
You can save only single e.List item views as templates. When you save e.List items as templates, all multidimensional Contributor formulas are saved relative to the e.List. For information about Contributor to Excel links, see Link Contributor Data to the Excel Zone.
From the Contributor menu, click Save As Template.
You can reset all data in the Contributor zone to the saved version.
Important: This also resets annotations, which means you lose any added since the last save.
From the Contributor menu, click Reset All, and click Yes.
Tip: To reset selected data only, use the Reset Quick
Command .