As a part of Planning Application creation, the first step is to create a dimension and its members, that is load metadata.
We achieve that by creating an import profile and then we will use this import profile to import dimensions from flat file or interface tables.
We have to first import the profile that is create metadata and then start creating an application. Therefore, it can be broken into two parts:
Import profile
Application Creation
Before we start the creation of an application, the primary task is to load dimensions into the shared library. This way, when we create a brand new application and it can use the imported dimensions of the shared library.
The idea of having dimensions in shared library is to have set of dimensions in the common repository and use them in applications such as HFM; Hyperion Planning, and others, when need them.
How do you load dimensions?
We can load dimensions using import profiles. We can also manually create a dimension...