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Getting Started with Oracle Hyperion Planning 11

By : Enti Sandeep Reddy
Book Image

Getting Started with Oracle Hyperion Planning 11

By: Enti Sandeep Reddy

Overview of this book

<p>Oracle Hyperion Planning is one of the many products in the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management software suite, an industry-leading Business Intelligence software package. The primary focus of the Hyperion Planning product is to provide a planning, budgeting, and forecasting solution that helps you manage and coordinate all your business planning and budgeting needs.</p> <p>This book is a practical guide to implementing a Hyperion Planning solution in your organization, which addresses all your planning, budgeting, and forecasting needs.</p> <p>You will begin with the installation of Hyperion Planning and then design Planning applications as per some example user requirements. You will then learn to create the planning objects. The book moves on to explaining important concepts within Hyperion Planning such as data forms, task lists, business rules, validation rules, and workflows, with the help of many real-world examples to maximize your learning. Towards the end of the book, you will cover user provisioning and access rights and budget process management.</p>
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Getting Started with Oracle Hyperion Planning 11
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Variables


In the previous chapter, we selected the appropriate dimension members and fixed them in Formula Range as per our requirement for calculating and selecting the data form Rule Form.

Let us take a look at this in more detail by opening the rule MyRule; we see that the rule has been confined to the dimension members highlighted in the following screenshot:

Imagine a requirement where the planner wants to select the Entity dimension member for the business rule on run-time basis dynamically, rather than fixing within the rule in Formula Range.

We see in the previous screenshot that Massachusetts has been selected and we know that the rule will run for this Entity dimension member only. In real time however, providing an option to a planner to select the Entity dimension member on run-time will be very handy. A planner can select Massachusetts or New York likewise.

In short, we are talking of his selection that is not fixed, but rather changeable or varying. Hence, we introduce the idea...