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Oracle Essbase 11 Development Cookbook

By : Jose R Ruiz
Book Image

Oracle Essbase 11 Development Cookbook

By: Jose R Ruiz

Overview of this book

Oracle Essbase is a Multi-Dimensional Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) server, providing a rich environment for effectively developing custom analytic and enterprise performance management applications. Oracle Essbase enables business users to quickly model complex business scenarios. This practical cookbook shows you the advanced development techniques when building Essbase Applications and how to take these applications further. Packed with over 90 task-based and immediately reusable recipes, this book starts by showing you how to use a relational data model to build and load an Essbase cube and how to create a data source, prepare the mini schema, and work with the data elements in Essbase Studio. The book then dives into topics such as building the BSO cube, building the ASO cube, using EAS for development, creating Calculation Scripts and using MaxL to automate processes.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Oracle Essbase 11 Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using substitution variables in calculations script


Substitution variables are global place holders for values that change often in our Essbase application. Substitution variables have many functions in Essbase, but in this recipe, we will use a substitution variable in a nested FIX/ENDFIX statement to copy data for the Year dimension member specified in our substitution variable. We will also use the substitution variable as the parameter in our ACCUM and MOVAVG range and financial functions. This recipe only applies to the BSO model.

Getting ready

To get started, click on the Start menu and navigate to Program | Oracle EPM System | Essbase | Essbase Administration Services | Start Administration Services Console. In the Log in menu, enter your Administration Server, Username, Password, and click on the Log in button.

How to do it...

  1. Right-click on your Essbase Server in EAS, select Edit..., and click on Variables....

  2. In the Substitution Variables menu, click down on the cell under Application...