The calculation part of Hyperion Planning can be achieved in three ways:
Outline or dimensional hierarchy.
Member formula
Business rules.
We know that a Planning outline comprises all dimensions, members, and their respective hierarchies. Calculation is performed based on the way we design the dimensional hierarchy in a Planning outline. If we recall the two basic settings of dimension members, they are:
Consolidation
Storage
We learned about these two properties at length already in Chapter 6, Settings, under the Basics section. Please refer to it once before we presume our discussion.
Let us take the Account dimension of SRGD as an example and view its dimensional structure to understand this.
Log in to SRGD as an admin and take a look at the Account dimension hierarchy of the SRGD Planning application, as shown in the next screenshot:
We clearly observe that the parent members in the hierarchies have the storage property of Dynamic Calc and the...