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title: "How to: Change a Dimension Element Weight in Planning Analytics via TI process"
description: "In Planning Analytics, you can change the weights of an element in a dimension several ways. You can do it manually, however, we have found that re-running an associated TI process sometimes wipes any element weight changes. Therefore, we looked…"
url: "https://www.aramar.co.uk/knowledge-share/ibm-planning-analytics/overriding-element-weights-from-a-ti-process/"
updated: "2024-10-07"
category: IBM Planning Analytics
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# How to: Change a Dimension Element Weight in Planning Analytics via TI process

In Planning Analytics, you can change the weights of an element in a dimension several ways. You can do it manually, however, we have found that re-running an associated TI process sometimes wipes any element weight changes. Therefore, we looked to create the action via a process instead. 

  

To begin, we add a column to the .CSV file that builds the chart of accounts dimension. This column is named ‘Weight Override’. We filled it in with -1 where we wanted the subtotal to subtract the number.  We set it to ‘String’ and ‘Other’. On the metadata tab below autogenerated section, we then wrote the code as follows:

  

#For those which have the weight override column populated, delete it from it's parent and re-insert it with the override column weight. 

IF(vWeightOverride@<>''); 

  #Convert the weight override column to a numeric value as its currently set as a string 

  vWeightNumeric=Numbr(vWeightOverride); 

  DimensionElementComponentDelete('CoA PLC',vParent,vChildConv); 

  DIMENSIONELEMENTCOMPONENTADD('CoA PLC',vParent,vChildConv,vWeightNumeric);