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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

Evaluation Order


We have finally come to the last section of this chapter.

We have the field of 'Data type' for all the dimensions. When we create a web form and wish to view data for a combination of dimensions, then we need to tell the system which data type to use.

For example, there is an account member whose data type is percentage and anentity member US, whose data type is Currency. Now, we are looking at the form which has these two members along with other dimensions too. Now, are we not confused in understanding what data type would be reflected when we look at the data values. The order is the key here, if the Account dimension is above the Entity dimension in the evaluation order, then the Account dimension has precedence over the Entity dimension.

Another example, say we have an Account member set to Percentage as its data type and it is used in a form. To display the member using percentages, we need to place the Account dimension above in the data type evaluation order.

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