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Oracle Hyperion Planning

Administrator's Guide

Release 11.1.2.1

Updated: May 2013

Planning Administrator's Guide, 11.1.2.1

Copyright 2001, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Authors: EPM Information Development Team

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Contents

Documentation Accessibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Chapter 1. Using Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

About Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Smart View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Planning Web Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Performance Management Architect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

EPM Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Lifecycle Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Essbase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Financial Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Business Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Web Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

User Licensing for Third-Party Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Planning Usage Scenario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Setting Up Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Building Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Launching Business Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Starting the Budget Review Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Post-Planning Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Chapter 2. Getting Started with Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Starting Essbase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Considerations for Working with Essbase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Understanding Implied Sharing in Planning Data Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Connecting to Multiple Instances of Essbase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Starting the Relational Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Optimizing SQL Relational Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Setting Planning Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Changing the JDBC Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

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Configuring JDBC Connection Pooling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Configuring Data Synchronization on UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Setting Offline Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Controlling Smart View Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Setting Background Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Setting Data Validation Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Setting the Maximum Length for Text Values and Comments in Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Logging On to EPM Workspace and Accessing Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Working with Planning Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Suppressing Password Prompts in Planning Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

About Text Files for Planning Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Running Planning Utilities on UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

About EPM Oracle Instance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Using Application Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

About Updating Instances and Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Closing Planning and Essbase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Chapter 3. Setting Up Access Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Levels of Access Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Planning Elements That Can Be Assigned Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Types of Access Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Enabling Access Permissions for Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Assigning Access to Members and Business Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Adding Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Editing Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Deleting Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

About Effective Access Permissions to Shared Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Managing Access to Data Forms and Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Assigning Access to Data Forms and Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Adding Access to Data Forms and Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Changing Access to Data Forms and Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Importing Access Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Improving Performance When Importing Access Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Exporting Access Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Reporting on Access Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Selecting Reporting Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Selecting Reporting Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Working With Access Permissions Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Setting up Audit Trails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

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Managing Security Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Synchronizing Users and Groups With the UpdateUsers Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Synchronizing Users With the Provision Users Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Migrating User and Group Identities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Migrating Business Rule Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Removing Stale User Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Setting Up Access Permissions in Financial Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Chapter 4. Managing Planning Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Opening Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Unlocking Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Using Broadcast Messaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Viewing Usage Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Creating and Refreshing Application Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Managing Exchange Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Creating Exchange Rate Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Editing Exchange Rate Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Deleting Exchange Rate Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Managing Currency Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Working with Currency Conversion Calc Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Optimizing Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

About Reordering Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Allocating Memory for Supporting Detail Cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Configuring the Data and Index Cache Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Other Performance Optimization Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Backing Up Applications and Application Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Chapter 5. Loading Data and Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Overview of Loading Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Working with the Outline Load Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Loading Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Loading Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Command Line Parameters for the Outline Load Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Dimension Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Load File Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Exporting Metadata with the Outline Load Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Data Integrator Adapter for Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Using DIM Adapter for Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Enabling Data Load of Essbase Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Loading from Administration Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

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File Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Loading with Performance Management Architect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Loading with FDM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Chapter 6. Managing Data Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

About Data Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Data Forms and Plan Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Data Forms and Access Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Data Forms and Currencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Designing Data Forms for Multiple Currencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Designing Data Forms for Drill-Through Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Designing Data Forms with Formula Rows and Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Designing Data Forms with Data Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Data Forms and Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Data Forms and Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Data Forms and Shared Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Data Forms and Calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Understanding Data Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Point of View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Page Axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Rows and Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Selecting and Opening Data Forms and Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Creating Simple Data Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Setting Row and Column Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Setting Data Form Grid Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Setting Dimension Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Setting Data Form Precision, Display Properties, and Other Options . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Creating Asymmetric Rows and Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Adding Formula Rows and Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Including Data Validation Rules in Data Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Defining Simple Data Form Page and Point of View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Editing Data Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Creating Composite Data Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Setting Composite Data Form Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Setting Composite Data Form Section Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Setting Composite Data Form POV and Page Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Using Business Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Selecting Business Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Setting Business Rule Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

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About Runtime Prompts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Understanding Runtime Prompts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Launching Business Rules With a Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Customizing Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Previewing Data Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Managing User Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Selecting User Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Deleting User Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Printing Data Form Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Searching for Data Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Moving Data Forms and Ad Hoc Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Deleting Data Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Renaming Data Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Overview of Importing Data Form Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Preparing Data Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Preparing Data Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Importing Data Form Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

ImportFormDefinition Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Importing and Exporting Data Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Planning Offline Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Offline Data Form Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Offline User Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Business Rule Considerations for Offline Calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Chapter 7. Using the Member Selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Selecting Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Using Wildcards in Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

About Selecting Attribute Values as Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

About Selecting Members for Data Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

About Selecting Substitution Variables as Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

About Selecting User Variables as Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Chapter 8. Managing Data Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Creating and Updating Data Validation Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Formatting Cells and Setting the Promotional Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Viewing Data Validation Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Order of Evaluation and Execution for Data Validation Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Conditions Supported by the Rule Builder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

If Condition Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Then Condition Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

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Range Condition Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Data Validation Conditional Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Data Validation Rule Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Scenario 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Scenario 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Scenario 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Scenario 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Scenario 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Chapter 9. Managing the Budgeting Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

About the Budgeting Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Planning Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Review Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Planning Unit Hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Data Validation Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Task Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Setting Up E-mail for Approvals Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Defining the Budgeting Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Approvals Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Approvals Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Starting and Supporting the Review Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Printing Planning Unit Annotations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Managing Planning Unit Hierarchies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Creating Planning Unit Hierarchies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Assigning Planning Unit Hierarchy Scenario and Version Combinations . . . . . . . . . 203

Selecting Planning Unit Hierarchy Scenario and Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Editing Planning Unit Hierarchies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Deleting Planning Unit Hierarchies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Viewing Planning Unit Hierarchy Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Renaming Planning Unit Hierarchies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Synchronizing Planning Unit Hierarchies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Exporting Planning Unit Hierarchies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Importing Planning Unit Hierarchies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Planning Unit Promotional Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Modifying the Planning Unit Promotional Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Design Considerations for Planning Unit Promotional Path Data ValidationRules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Managing Task Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Creating Task List Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Renaming Task Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

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Renaming Task List Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Moving Task List Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Deleting Task List Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Creating Task Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Adding Instructions to Task Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Adding and Defining Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Editing Task Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Linking Tasks to Planning Web Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Assigning Access to Task Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Importing and Exporting Task Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Copying Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Clearing Cell Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Chapter 10. Working With Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Managing Data Forms and Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Creating Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Moving Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Deleting Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Renaming Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

About Setting Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Setting Personal Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Setting Application Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Specifying System Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Assigning Applications to Shared Services Application Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Limiting Use of Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Specifying Custom Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Setting Display Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Setting Printing Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Mapping Applications for Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

About Reporting Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Creating Reporting Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Mapping Planning Applications to Reporting Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Defining Application Mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Defining Dimension Mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Setting the Point of View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Validation Rules for Default Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Pushing Data to Reporting Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Pushing Data with a Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Unsupported Features with Mapping Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

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Mapping Applications and Substitution Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Adding an Essbase Server for Reporting Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Editing an Essbase Server for Reporting Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Removing an Essbase Server for Reporting Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Deleting Application Information Using SQL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Deleting Account Annotations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Deleting Supporting Detail Associated With a Scenario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Chapter 11. Working with Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Creating and Updating Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Working with Menu Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Adding or Changing Menu Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Chapter 12. Working with Classic Application Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

About Creating Applications with Performance Management Architect and ClassicAdministration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Setting Up Classic Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Creating Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Managing Data Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Managing Upgrades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Selecting Application Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Setting up the Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Setting up Currencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Specifying Plan Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Reviewing Application Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Registering Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Deleting Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Working with Alias Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

About Alias Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Creating Alias Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Editing or Renaming Alias Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Deleting Alias Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Clearing Alias Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Copying Alias Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Setting a Default Alias Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Working with Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Dimension Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Working with Dimension Hierarchies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Viewing a Members Ancestors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Determining Where Members Are Used in Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

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About Custom Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

About Entities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Base Currency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

About Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Accounts, Entities, and Plan Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

About User-Defined Custom Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Adding or Editing User-Defined Custom Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Setting Dimension Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Setting Dimension Density and Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Setting the Evaluation Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Working with Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Working with Shared Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Creating Shared Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Working with Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Working with Attribute Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Customizing Calendars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Setting Up Currencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Enabling Multiple Currencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Specifying Exchange Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Setting Up Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Specifying Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Sorting Version and Scenario Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Moving Scenario and Version Members in the Dimension Hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Setting up Dynamic Time Series Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Additional Supported Essbase Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Considerations for Alternate Hierarchies in Period Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Working with Classic Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Refreshing Application Databases Using a Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Refreshing Databases with Level 0 Members Set to Dynamic Calc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Working With Essbase Partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Sorting Members Using a Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Deleting Shared Descendants Using a Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Using Smart Lists, UDAs, and Member Formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Working with Smart Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Working with UDAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Working with Member Formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Chapter 13. Customizing Planning Web Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Customizing Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

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Customizing the Planning Tools Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Customizing Cascading Style Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Location of Cascading Style Sheet Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Modifying Cascading Style Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Customization Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Customizing the Style of Row and Column Members in Data Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

About Customizing Text, Color, and Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Customizing Text, Color, and Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Customizing Text in Non-Latin Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Restricted Characters in Customized Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Customizing Colors, States, and Actions for Process Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Customizing Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Customizing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Customizing Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Creating Spreading Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Examples of Spreading Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Creating Instructions for Planners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Chapter 14. Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Calculation Script is Too Long or Complex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Cannot Find Member . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Cannot Process Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Conflicting Change by Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Copy Version Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Currency Conversion Calc Script Failed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Data Form Error Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Database Locked by Another Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

FDM Drill Through Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

500 Error Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Implied Sharing Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Invalid Value When Entering Date Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Manage Database Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Maximum Number of Applications Already Connected or Database is Locked . . . . . . . . 342

Optimizing WebLogic Server Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Optimizing Windows Network Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Registering a Restored Application with Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Session Timeout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Slow Performance When Opening Data Forms Using a Dial-Up Connection . . . . . . . . . 345

Slow Performance When Opening Large Data Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

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Unable to Create Application Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Appendix A. Customizing Data Forms with JavaScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

About Customizing Data Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Modifying JavaScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

customCellEnterPre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

customCellEnterPost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

customCellValidatePre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

customCellValidatePost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

customOnLoad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

drawCustomButtons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

validateForm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Deploying Custom JavaScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Appendix B. Naming Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Restrictions for Applications and Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Restrictions for Dimensions, Members, Aliases, and Data Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Dimension and Member Names in Calc Scripts, Report Scripts, Formulas, Filters, andSubstitution Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Restrictions for User Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Appendix C. Data Form Formula Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Using Formulas and Formula Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Creating Formulas Using the Formula Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Editing Formulas Using the Formula Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Deleting Formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Formula Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Arguments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Abs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Average . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

AverageA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

CountA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Difference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Eval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

IfThen, If . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Max . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Min . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Mod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

PercentOfTotal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

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Pi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Random . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Rank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Round . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Sqrt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Sum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Truncate / Trunc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Variance / Var . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

VariancePercent / VarPer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Appendix D. Accessibility Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Enabling Accessibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Accessibility Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Using Keyboard Equivalents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

General Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

File Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Edit Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

View Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Tools Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Administration Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Help Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

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16 Documentation Accessibility

1Using Planning

In This Chapter

About Planning ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Smart View... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Planning Web Client .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Performance Management Architect .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

EPM Workspace ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Lifecycle Management.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Essbase ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Financial Reporting .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Business Rules .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Web Analysis .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

User Licensing for Third-Party Software ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Planning Usage Scenario.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

About PlanningOracle Hyperion Planning is a Web-based budgeting and planning solution that drivescollaborative, event-based operational planning processes throughout the organization for awide range of financial and operational needs. It enables a complete and closed-loop planningprocess that drives continuous business improvement. Decision makers and managers cancommunicate the course of action and collaborate with budget holders to optimize the planningprocess. Planners have the flexibility to adapt rapidly, ensuring plans are relevant and useful.Planning:

l Facilitates collaboration, communication, and control across multi-divisional globalenterprises

l Provides a framework for perpetual planning, to manage volatility and frequent planningcycles

l Provides ease of use and deployment through the Web or Oracle Hyperion Smart View forOffice

l Lowers the total cost of ownership through a shorter roll out and implementation phase,and easier maintenance for applications

l Enhances decision-making with reporting, analysis, and planning

l Promotes modeling with complex business rules and allocations

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l Integrates with other systems to load data

Smart ViewSmart View is the Microsoft Office interface to Planning, where users can perform their planningand forecasting activities. Smart View also enables users to work offline in disconnect mode.They can analyze Planning data in Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Ad hocgrids in Smart View enable Planning users to personalize focused data slices that they frequentlyaccess and share them with others through Smart View or Planning. See the Working with AdHoc Grids chapter in the Oracle Hyperion Planning User's Guide and the Oracle Hyperion SmartView for Office User's Guide.

Planning Web ClientPlanning provides complete functionality for Web users. Use the Web interface to roll outapplications to large, distributed organizations without installing software on client computers.All software resides on the server. Many administrative features that were formerly in thePlanning Desktop are now available through Planning Web. Other administrative features, suchas creating and administering applications and dimensions, are now available through OracleHyperion EPM Architect.

Performance Management ArchitectPerformance Management Architect is a component of Planning installation and configuration.You use it to create and work with Planning applications and dimensions, Smart Lists, UDAs,member formulas, and other features. You can also create business rules.

With Performance Management Architect, you can view, create, and validate PerformanceManagement Architect applications, and deploy them to create Planning applications.Deploying applications from Performance Management Architect to Planning is a long-runningoperation. The initial deployment may take more time than subsequent re-deployments.

Performance Management Architect applications can contain business rules created using theOracle Hyperion Calculation Manager module in Performance Management Architect. Forassistance on tasks performed in Performance Management Architect, see the Oracle HyperionEnterprise Performance Management Architect Administrators Guide. For information oninstalling and configuring Performance Management Architect, see the Oracle HyperionEnterprise Performance Management System Installation and Configuration Guide.

EPM WorkspacePlanning is available within Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management Workspace.For information on EPM Workspace features, such as EPM Workspace preferences, see theOracle Enterprise Performance Management Workspace User's Online Help or Oracle Enterprise

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Performance Management Workspace Administrator's Online Help. To log on to EPM Workspace,see Logging On to EPM Workspace and Accessing Planning on page 42.

Lifecycle ManagementOracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Lifecycle Management providesa consistent way for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System products to migratean application, a repository, or individual artifacts across product environments and operatingsystems. Generally, the Lifecycle Management interface in Oracle Hyperion Shared ServicesConsole is consistent for all EPM System products that support Lifecycle Management. However,EPM System products display different artifact listings and export and import options in theLifecycle Management interface.

Lifecycle Management features:

l Viewing applications and folders

l Searching for artifacts

l Migrating directly from one application to another

l Migrating to and from the file system

l Saving and loading migration definition files

l Viewing selected artifacts

l Auditing migrations

l Viewing the status of migrations

l Importing and exporting individual artifacts for quick changes on the file system

In addition to providing the Lifecycle Management interface in Shared Services Console, thereis a command-line utility called Lifecycle Management Utility that provides an alternate way tomigrate artifacts from source to destination. The Lifecycle Management Utility can be used witha third-party scheduling service such as Windows Task Scheduler or Oracle Enterprise Manager.

Lastly, there is a Lifecycle Management Application Programming Interface (API) that enablesusers to customize and extend the Lifecycle Management functionality.

For detailed information about Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management SystemLifecycle Management, see the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management SystemLifecycle Management Guide.

EssbasePlanning leverages Oracle Essbase analytic and calculation capabilities, security filters, APIs, pre-built financial intelligence, calculation functions, and multi-database application support.Planning stores the application definition in a relational database, and creates Essbase databasesand security privileges for applications.

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Data sources are used to link the relational database and the Essbase server, and are associatedwith each Planning application. For information on creating data sources for Classic Planningapplications, see Managing Data Sources on page 250. For information on data sources forPlanning applications created in Performance Management Architect, see the Oracle HyperionEnterprise Performance Management Architect Administrators Guide.

Financial Reporting Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting is a management reporting tool that transforms data intomeaningful business information through highly formatted reports. Planning users can useFinancial Reporting to manage reporting tasks and implement plan review and analysis. Userscan create reports featuring text, grids of data, charts, graphs, and images. They can use real-time, ad hoc variance reporting, and produce a variety of sophisticated financial reports that canbe viewed online or printed with production-quality formatting.

Business Rules Business rules perform complicated calculations through predefined formulas, variables,calculation scripts, macros and sequences (for Oracle Hyperion Business Rules) and rulesets andtemplates (for Calculation Manager). See Using Business Rules on page 140.

Web AnalysisOracle Hyperion Web Analysis is an analysis, presentation, and reporting solution. It allowsorganizations to deliver information to large user communities at a low cost.

User Licensing for Third-Party SoftwareTo use Planning, you must purchase licenses from third-party vendors, for example, for arelational database and Web application server.

Planning Usage ScenarioYou create applications using Performance Management Architect application administration,and deploy them to create Planning applications. Applications contain dimensions anddimension attributes designed to meet Planning needs, such as accounts, entities, scenarios, andother dimension elements. You can create an unlimited number of applications. For informationabout Performance Management Architect, see the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise PerformanceManagement Architect Administrators Guide.

These topics outline how Planning is used:

l Deployment on page 21

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l Setting Up Applications on page 22

l Building Plans on page 26

l Launching Business Rules on page 27

l Starting the Budget Review Process on page 27

l Post-Planning Activities on page 29

DeploymentAn IT professional installs and configures Planning on server computers and client workstations.The IT professional should have experience administering relational databases, installing client/server and Web server software, and configuring user directories.

Table 1 Server Installation

User Task

IT professional Installs Planning system requirements, including operating systems, relational database, Web server, application server,and Web browser

IT professional Installs Essbase

IT professional Sets up the data source name (DSN) for the OLAP and relational databases

IT professional Installs Planning, Financial Reporting, and (for Classic Planning applications) Business Rules

IT professional Creates relational databases and connections

IT professional Configures the Web server

IT professional Sets up users in an external user directory

IT professional Optional: Creates a test application with users

IT professional Tests installation and configuration

Table 2 Client Installation Users and Tasks

User Task

IT professional Installs the Planning remote Windows client, Smart View, Microsoft Excel, Financial Reporting, and (for Classic Planningapplications) Business Rules

IT professional Installs a Web browser

IT professional Tests connections to the Web and network

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Setting Up Applications

Subtopics

l Creating Metadata

l Defining Users and Access Permissions

l Creating and Refreshing Applications

l Designing Data Forms

l Designing Worksheets

l Populating Applications with Data

l Creating Business Rules

l Setting Targets

l Creating Tasks Lists

l Reporting

l Initializing Planning Cycles

Setting up applications includes the tasks listed in this section. Administrators can also set upapplications using Performance Management Architect application administration, and deploythem to Planning. See the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management ArchitectAdministrators Guide.

Creating MetadataConsulting partners and the Planning administrator design applications and create anapplication framework with Performance Management Architect application administration.There is only one application owner per application. The owner can grant ownership to anotheradministrator. The application framework includes:

l Application name

l Number and names of plan types

l Calendar structure

l Whether the application is a multicurrency application

l Default currency

After the application framework is created, dimensions and members are added to theapplication and assigned to the plan type in Performance Management Architect. There are upto eight required dimensions in an application:

l Currency (for multicurrency applications)

l HSP_Rates (for multicurrency applications)

l Account

l Entity

l Scenario

l Version

l Period

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l Year

Table 3 Creating Metadata

User Task

Administrator Designs and creates applications

Administrator Defines metadata (currencies, scenarios, versions, calendar)

Administrator Enters exchange rates

Administrator Defines attributes and attribute values

Administrator Loads custom dimensions

Defining Users and Access PermissionsAn IT professional defines users and groups and configures a user directory before users canaccess Planning applications. For detailed information, see the Oracle Hyperion EnterprisePerformance Management System User and Role Security Guide. Within Planning, you assignusers or groups to secured objects.

Table 4 Setting Up Users and Access Permissions

User Task

IT professional Sets up Planning users with a supported user directory

Administrator Synchronizes users in the user directory with a Planning application

Administrator Assigns access permissions to users and groups

Administrator Assigns access permissions to dimensions, members, data forms, folders, and task lists in Planning (see Chapter 3,Setting Up Access Permissions)

Creating and Refreshing ApplicationsAdministrators create and periodically refresh the Essbase outline and security structure for thePlanning application. The outline and security structure are created based on metadata storedin the Planning applications relational database. Planning creates:

l An Essbase application

l Multiple Essbase databases (one per plan type)

l Essbase access permissions filters

l Essbase outlines (all metadata):

m Members

m Shared members

m User-defined attributes and attribute values


m Exchange rates

Table 5 Generating Databases

User Task

Administrator Creates and refreshes Planning applications based on metadata stored in the applications relational database

Designing Data Forms

Table 6 Designing Data Forms

User Task

Administrator and interactive user Creates and maintains data forms in Planning

Administrator and interactive user Creates and manages folders in Planning for data form management

Administrator Assigns access permissions to data forms and folders

Designing WorksheetsPlanning users can install Smart View to work with data forms in Excel to leverage Excelworksheet models, build custom formulas, format reports, and work disconnected fromPlanning.

Populating Applications with DataAdministrators and interactive users use Performance Management Architect applicationadministration to pre-populate Planning applications with data. See the Oracle HyperionEnterprise Performance Management Architect Administrators Guide.

Table 7 Populating Applications with Data

User Task

Administrator Use Copy Data to copy plans from one dimensional intersection to another, including relational dataand supporting detail

Administrator and interactive user Performs bulk loads

Any user Enters values for global saved assumptions referenced in business rules

Any user Enters data into the Planning application through data forms or Smart View

Any user Calculates and creates data using business rules or Copy Version

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Creating Business Rules

Table 8 Creating Business Rules

User Task

Administrator Assigns users access permissions to business rules

Administrator and interactive user Creates business rules. See the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise PerformanceManagement System User and Role Security Guide for information on CalculationManager roles and rights.

Administrator, interactive user, and planners who areassigned launch access permissions by anadministrator

Launches business rules for Planning applications

For information on administering business rules, see:

l For business rules created with Business Rules: Hyperion Business Rules AdministratorsGuide.

l For business rules created with Calculation Manager: Oracle Hyperion EnterprisePerformance Management Architect Administrators Guide.

See also: Using Business Rules on page 140.

Setting TargetsAdministrators set target type versions for Planning applications. User access to target data isdetermined by access permissions. Typically, target data is stored in the upper levels of metadata,such as Business Unit. Administrators configure the Essbase database so target data is notreplaced by lower-level #MISSING values.

Target data is typically used as guidance for data entry and analysis. Create it, for example,though:

l Manual data entry

l Modeling with business rules

l Pushing targets down to lower-level members using business rules

Table 9 Setting Targets

User Type Task

Administrator Adds a standard target-type version

Administrator Assigns users access permissions (typically, read-only) to the target version

Administrator Configures the Essbase database so target data is not replaced by lower-level #MISSING values

Any user Creates target data

Administrator Publishes targets using Financial Reporting


User Type Task

Any user Displays targets on data forms for guidance or input

Creating Tasks ListsTable 10 Task Lists

User Type Task

Administrator Creates task lists that structure the budgeting process for users

Administrator and Task List Access Manager Assigns access permissions to task lists and tasks

ReportingUse Financial Reporting to create reports for Windows or Web-enabled clients. FinancialReporting uses Essbase databases and adheres to Essbase access permissions filters generated byPlanning.

Table 11 Reporting

User Type Task

Administrator and interactive user Creates and launches reports using Financial Reporting

Any user Prints reports

Any user Views reports throughout the planning cycle

Initializing Planning CyclesTable 12 Initializing Planning Cycles

User Type Task

Administrator Selects planning units for iterative review, analysis, and approval

Any user Specifies whether to receive e-mail after becoming planning unit owners

Building PlansAdministrators define task lists to guide users through the planning process. Planning users startthe planning cycle by logging into an application and opening data forms. Users read data forminstructions and review historical or target data for guidance when preparing plans. Foradditional user tasks, see the Oracle Hyperion Planning Users Online Help.

Users can save data in data forms, and can refresh currently stored data values in data formsbefore saving. Users can restore data to the last saved version, and save a personal version usingCopy Version. When users save:

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l Data is saved to the Essbase database.

l Subtotals on data forms are calculated and stored if the Calculate Data Form business ruleis selected to run on save when data forms are created. (By default, this business rule is notselected to run on save.)

l Business rules are launched to calculate data.

Launching Business RulesThe business rules available to users depend on access permissions. Administrators can assignlaunch access permissions to Calculation Manager business rules from within Planning (seeChapter 3, Setting Up Access Permissions). For more information on business rule accesspermissions, also see:

l For Calculation Manager: Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Userand Role Security Guide

l For Business Rules: Hyperion Business Rules Administrator's Guide

l Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System User and Role Security Guide

Users with launch permissions can launch business rules from Planning or Smart View.

Starting the Budget Review ProcessThe administrator initializes review processes by placing planning units in the First Pass state.Data is typically promoted for review after users enter data, calculate, and save. When userspromote planning units, they enter annotations that record assumptions and select the nextowners or reviewers. Promoting planning units:

l Assigns ownership to the selected user

l Overrides access permissions on the planning unit to read-only for non-owners

l Changes planning unit status from First Pass to Under Review

l Updates status for upper-level (or lower-level) planning units to Under Review as necessary

l Records an audit entry in the process history

l Optionally sends e-mail notifications to the application owner and new planning unit owner

Reviewers can make modifications and annotations. Read-only users can enter planning unitannotations and account annotations, but cannot enter data values. Users can keep a personalcopy of the original data to track modified data. When planning units are promoted, the revieweris the new owner and typically:

l Receives e-mail notifications and is directed to the Process Definition page

l Sorts the status page by entity, process state, or current owner

l Reviews annotations and planning unit history

l Opens data forms and reviews, analyzes, modifies, and calculates data


l Makes annotations (including account annotations)

l Promotes or rejects the planning unit, with iterations until the planning unit is approved

After planning units are approved, the application owner becomes the planning unit owner.Only administrators can reject planning units. To close the review cycle, the application owneror administrator changes the scenario or version to read-only for all users.

Table 13 Starting the Budget Review Process

Users Tasks

Administrators Starts the planning unit for the planning cycle

Users with access Enters data

Users with access Calculates data

Users with access Optionally, creates a copy of submissions

Users with access Promotes data for review

Users with access Enters annotations to support the review process. Until an owner is established for a planning unit,multiple users can update it. Access permissions for non-owners are changed to read-only whenthe planning unit is promoted to the next reviewer.

Users with access Notifies reviewers that the planning unit is ready for review

Users with access Reviews data in the promoted planning unit

Users with access Reads and modifies promoted data through data forms

Users with access Runs business rules

Users with access Reads promoted data using Financial Reporting, Oracle Hyperion Web Analysis, Smart View, or third-party reporting tools

Users with access Modifies data values, enters annotations, signs off on planning units, and promotes, rejects, andapproves planning units

Administrators Checks the planning process status

Administrators Reads supporting annotations

Administrators Views the audit trail

Administrators Completes the planning cycle

Administrators Changes user access of scenarios and versions in Essbase to read-only

Administrators and interactive users Publishes reports using Financial Reporting

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Post-Planning ActivitiesTable 14 Post-Planning Activities

Users Tasks

Administrators and interactiveusers

Upload planning data by scenario to other applications, a general ledger, or an ERP

Users with access Copies a version of the completed plan to a new version or copies data from one dimensional intersectionto another

Administrator and interactiveuser

Performs bulk loads of the latest actuals data to report on actual performance versus plan

Users with access Accesses data forms, Financial Reporting, Smart View, Oracle Hyperion Performance Scorecard, or third-party reporting tools to read updates to actuals and analyze performance to plan


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2Getting Started with Planning

In This Chapter

Overview ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

Starting Essbase ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Considerations for Working with Essbase... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Understanding Implied Sharing in Planning Data Forms ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Connecting to Multiple Instances of Essbase ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Starting the Relational Database... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Optimizing SQL Relational Databases ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Setting Planning Properties .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

Logging On to EPM Workspace and Accessing Planning ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Working with Planning Utilities.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Using Application Servers .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

About Updating Instances and Clusters .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

Closing Planning and Essbase... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

OverviewPlanning applications are a related set of dimensions and dimension members used to meet aset of planning needs. Each application has its own accounts, entities, scenarios, and other dataelements.

You can work with applications using Performance Management Architect and Classicapplication administration. See the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance ManagementArchitect Administrators Guide for these Performance Management Architect applicationadministration tasks:

l Create an application in Performance Management Architect and deploy it to create aPlanning application.

l Create entities to reflect your organizations budget structure.

l Create accounts and dimensions for gathering planning data.

l Create scenarios and versions.

l Modify the calendar with any custom summary time periods needed by your organization.

l For multicurrency applications, specify the base currency, currency code and symbol,triangulation currency, reporting currency, and exchange rate type.

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l Create business rules in Calculation Manager.

See this guide for Classic application administration tasks, including:

l Create, delete, and register Classic applications.

l Create data forms, task lists, and menus.

l Assign access permissions for dimension members, task lists, data forms, and data formfolders. See Chapter 3, Setting Up Access Permissions and the Oracle Hyperion EnterprisePerformance Management System User and Role Security Guide and its information onPlanning.

l Manage currency conversion and exchange rate tables.

l Identify the review and approval process, requirements, and participants, and manage thebudgeting process.

For information on installing and configuring Planning and Performance ManagementArchitect, see the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management Architect SystemInstallation and Configuration Guide.

Starting EssbaseThe data for Planning applications resides on the Essbase server. Essbase must be running beforeyou can open Planning applications. After Essbase is started, it can be minimized and run in thebackground or as a service.

Considerations for Working with EssbaseCreating and refreshing on the Manage Database page affects data in the Essbase database. Whenyou click Create, data is erased and Planning plan types are rebuilt. When you click Refresh, datamight be replaced. For important information, see Creating and Refreshing ApplicationDatabases on page 75.

If you are not using Performance Management Architect, you work with applications usingClassic application administration. If you upgrade an application created in Classic applicationadministration to Performance Management Architect, you cannot return to working with thatapplication in Classic application administration. Modifying Essbase outlines directly throughOracle Essbase Administration Services is not supported.

When you refresh Planning applications, the Essbase database makes these changes:

l If a member does not exist in the Planning relational database, the member and its properties,attributes, and User-Defined Attributes (UDAs) are not retained in Essbase on Refresh.

l Planning first retrieves member properties from any existing member in Essbase, then setsand overrides any member property definable in Planning.

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