Immediate and manual writeback

In the Application Studio client, values are always written back immediately. Therefore, you cannot submit multiple values and then write them back together, by clicking a button for example.

But, in a report in the client, you can specify whether writeback is automatic or manual in the web, by using these features:

  • The Immediate Writeback report property
  • The Immediate Writeback input of a Set Parameters action

The Immediate Writeback report property can have these values:

  • Inherit from catalog
  • Automatic
  • Manual

In the report catalog, immediate writeback can be enabled or disabled. This is specified in the Application Settings dashboard in EPM Administration. There, if Enabled is specified, values are written back automatically. But you can override this by specifying Manual in the report's properties in the client.

In a Set parameters action, you can use the Immediate Writeback optional input to change the writeback behavior in the web, on the fly. Specify a formula that returns TRUE or FALSE as the value of the input to determine whether writeback is immediate or manual.