Metrics Management allows definitions of different formulas and groupings by location. By synchronizing hierarchies, you prevent invalid measure and location combinations being displayed in view and book drill downs. Whenever a change is made that alters the stored matrix of valid measure and location combinations, the system specialist receives a message that the hierarchies are out-of-date and need to be synchronized.

Running the synchronize hierarchies process updates the database with the valid measure and location information.

Only the system specialist can perform a hierarchy synchronization. If possible, take the database offline before running this process. It can also be run as a scheduled task—please see Scheduling pbvcon.