After creating the application, you need to enter or import an e.List and its rights to roll out the application to business users. We will cover the topics of e.List and rights in this section.
An e.List typically reflects the organization chart, for example, regions, departments, branches, and so on. It is the list to distribute the planning model template to business users, called planners, and reviewers in IBM Cognos Planning. You can occasionally find a product or project list as the e.List in planning models. However, the e.List typically represents an organizational hierarchy with a valid parent-child relationship.
As illustrated in the following screenshot, the ABC Company is organizationally structured around geographic regions, and that structure is reflected in its e.List. A valid parent-child relationship exists in the e.List. The parents are called reviewer or roll-up nodes, and lowest level children (leaves) are called...