RDF Causal

Can you provide some other insight on RDF.  I built out RDF an RDF solution to accompany a custom solution with which we are testing forecasting using AutoES.  However, the numbers don't appear to be sound weather we are forecast at the higher source level or the forecasting at the Final level.  I see that various methods were used to produce the forecast as is the case with AutoES.  Now we want to test Causal which require data other than the source data for which we are forecasting, such as out of stock indicator and promotional history.  The guides are