Mass Allocation Erroring Out: Cannot Use Constant Segment Type With Parent Segment Value (Doc ID 412285.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Applies to:

Symptoms

When attempting to validate a Mass Allocation formula, it is failing with the following error:

Offset Line: "Cannot use constant segment type with parent segment value
Target or offset Line: You cannot use a Constant type with a parent segment value"

You can also receive error:

"You cannot loop on a detail segment value; use parent value to loop"

Cause

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