Define Validation Rules (RTC)
Application component: Real-Time Consolidation
App type: Transactional
Line of business: Finance
Leading industry: Cross Industry
Solution capability: Corporate Close (S/4)
Description: With this app, users can define a series of rules that will be later applied when validating reported data and standardized data along the whole consolidation process. Rules and result messages are defined using intuitive rule expression language (REL). Users can run defined rules in simulation mode for specific criteria to verify rule definition.
An app to define financial data validation rules
Key features:  Create Rule You can create validation rules to describe the logical conditions that reported financial data should fulfill. The rule expression is defined using the intuitive Rule Expression Language (REL), and comprised of data objects and operators. This is a short demo of defining check conditions (English only).    Note For more information, go to the SAP Rule Expression Language Guide on the SAP HANA Rules Framework Help Portal page at https://help.sap.com/hrf10, and search for About the Rule Expression Language. You can set the control level of your created rules as Hard or Soft to specify whether the rule allows an exemption during data validation. Data packages must pass the hard rules before being released for consolidation. Failure to pass soft rules can be exempted with comments. After a rule is created, you can choose to save the rule as a raw or active version. Furthermore, you can also choose to enable or disable active rules for business use. Only business-enabled rules can be assigned to a validation method and thereafter applied in data checks.  Simulation Run You can run the created rules for a sample dataset in simulation mode to verify if the rule is set up properly.  Set Up Drill-Through Reports In this section, you can associate your existing reports with a validation rule. These reports can explain the validation result by enabling drill through to more detailed information. The associated reports should be accessed via HTTP URLs, and the filtering parameters can be passed through URL parameters. The parameter values can be assigned using placeholders, which are predefined as follows:   $MODEL$: Model   $VERID$: Version ID   $RYEAR$: Fiscal Year   $POPER$: Fiscal Period   $FISCALYEARPER$: Fiscal Year Period   $ENTITY$: Entity   In addition, you can also use any of the four message output placeholders, like $1$, $2$, $3$, or $4$. The URL of the drill-through report can either be absolute or relative. If the report app resides in the same host, the relative URL is recommended. For example, you can assign the standard drill-through report to your rule. The report then lists journal entries for a certain consolidation entity. This is an example report URL:Example /sap/bc/ui5_ui5/ui2/ushell/shells/abap/FioriLaunchpad.html?sap-client=902#RealTimeConsolidation-showDocumentList?ENTITY=$ENTITY$&FPOPER=$POPER$&FRYEAR=$RYEAR$&MODEL=$MODEL$&RACCT=11121101&VERID=$VERID$  Rule Transport and Mass Activation In the backend system, for the specified consolidation models, you can transport the created rules to a different system than the source system or activate multiple selected rules.These functionalities are available in the program RTC Modeling Tool (transaction RTCMD) under Utilities  Transport Validation Rule/Activate Validation Rule.
Business roles: Consolidation Specialist
Consolidation Specialist : 
Is responsible for the Consolidation setting, processing for the FI or other business data from subsidiaries. Generates the legal & management consolidated reports.