As mentioned earlier, an additional Performance System Parameter option was added to support specific monthly build requirements. If Monthly Mode (1 = Enabled) is enabled, this results with all changes Approved during any day in the month being automatically pushed back to the first day of the current month. As a result, the Start Dates and Stop Dates for all membership changes are committed to ENTITY_RANGE_DETAILS as of the first of the month.
This ensures that constituents are entered and removed from a composite for the full month. This mode is commonly used by clients that enter/update entity characteristics during the month and as a result, are required to run daily builds. Daily builds ensure that these characteristic changes are interrogated during the build process if they are used as part of the Performance Composites rules-based criteria.
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