Viewing the baseline forecast summary and activate the baseline

Use the Summary page to review the parameters of your forecast and activate the forecast so other users can run it.

1. Review the summary of your baseline forecast. If anything looks amiss, you can click Back to return to previous configuration pages.
   
2. Optionally, configure how forecast details and errors are handled.

   The following options are available on the Summary page:

   • Save statistical details...: Saves the statistical details that are generated when you run the forecast in the ForecastStatsCube, where they can be analyzed after the forecast completes. If this option is not enabled, statistical details are not saved anywhere and cannot be reviewed. If you also selected the Allow override option, you can also allow your users to choose the slice to store the statistical details.
   • Ignore time series with insufficient historical data: Excludes error statistics for records that have no historical data from detailed analysis. These records are still included in the overall forecast summary.

   Additional configuration is required if you enable the Save statistical details... option:

   The first time that you enable the Save statistical details... option on a Planning Analytics database you are asked to create the ForecastStatsCube.

   The ForecastStatsCube saves statistical data about baseline forecast executions. It contains three dimensions:

   ForecastResultRun

   Initially, this dimension contains members numbered 1 through 5, representing individual baseline forecasts. When you select a slice to which you want to save statistical details, you specify one of the members in this dimension to save details data. After you initially create the ForecastStatsCube, you can modify this dimension to contain other members to store statistical details for other baseline forecasts.

   ForecastResultTimeseries

   This dimension has members corresponding to time series as members.

   ForecastResultOutput

   This dimension has all the statistical details categories as its members.

   1. Click Create.
   2. Use the Select a slice option to pick the member of the ForecastResultRun dimension to receive the statistical data.

      If you selected the Allow override option for the Save statistical details... option, your users can choose a different slice to store the statistical details when they run the baseline forecast.

3. Toggle the Forecast status to Active to enable running the forecast and to make the forecast available to other users.
4. Click View baseline to open the baseline forecast page, which provides an overview of your forecast. You can edit or run the baseline forecast from this page.