Active Form - Activating Formulas on a Switch

[MSidat]

Hi all,

Just wondered if anyone was aware of the correct technique to activate certain formulas on an active form via a switch.

For example, in my Active Form I have a series of hidden columns with DBS statements in them. Now I only want these to fire when an Action Button is clicked. Normally I would have just reverted to VBA, and wrapped these DBS's in an IF statement referring to a Cell named "SendSwitch", get the VBA to update the Cell with a 1 and recalc the sheet and then change it back to 0 and recalc again so the links are in effect dead.

As I need this to function in TM1Web VBA is not an option, is there a way to replicate this kind of functionality with Action Buttons?

Also as a separate item, I am only able to view the properties behind any action button after it has been executed (The TM1 Properties dialogue box, not the VBA one, which is available in design mode), before that time the properties option is greyed out (After Right Clicking on the button), is this default behaviour?

Thanks in Advance

[declanr]

You can just have a control cube and send a 1 to that via TI via action button... so basically the same concept.

Or if you didn't want a control cube just have them change a 1 or a 0 using an excel list?

[lotsaram]

I think you could still control the DBS formulas via a cell switch. Just have a cell drop-down with "update" or "don't update" and make a title element for the DBS formulas dependent on the switch, that is if "don't update" then blank string which will render the DBS invalid and ineffective.

As an aside my preference would be to avoid DBS and DBSW in websheets like the plague. There is pretty much always a way to allow direct entry instead by adapting the cube design which then performs much better and less to go wrong.

[MSidat]

Thanks for the replies folks.

Prefer Lotsarams idea about the cell drop down method.

Agree direct entry would be best, however in this situation I need to send various user specific information at the same time for each individual change i.e. user/datetime etc, so that this alongside value changes can be sent on to another system for tracking purposes. As the user does not necessary need visibility of this, its in a hidden section and would prefer it on a switch so that when they are just browsing the data on the active form (read only data) and possibly doing recalc's the extra DBS's are not firing and time for a recalc can be reduced.