Improve Assets in ePBCS Capex Model

In today's post we will talk about improve asset OOB feature of ePBCS' Capex Model.

Let's take a use case where we have an existing building and we are planning to improve that building by adding a conference room and a stairwell.

We have multiple ways to improve that asset, some of them are:
1. Plan for two new assets using add new asset rule under investments or
2. Using Improve Asset feature

Here will talk about the second approach, if you want to use improve asset functionality you have to think through following asset structure

Existing Building ABC
    - Existing Building ABC Base
    - ABC Conference Room
    - ABC Stairwell

Let's take a step by step approach to achieve such scenarios:

Assuming from our Actual source system we got just one existing asset

Existing Building ABC, if you are try to improve asset you will probably run to following issue:
Error occurred during pre processing of business rule. Cannot add member <> as it's parent <> is not enabled for dynamic children.

Is this an expected error, if you planning to improve an asset, BR associates the new asset with existing parent member, and as these associated assets are dynamically created members, parent has to be enabled for dynamic children.

Details are also documented at this link:

Here is how you can edit the existing asset to enable for dynamic children.

Once done, you should be able to improve assets.

Cheers..!!
Rahul S.