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Essbase 11.1.1.3 (Zola) Advanced Team Training

Aneel Shenker Essbase Product Management July 28th, 2009

Essbase 11.1.1.3 (Zola) Overview

Bugfixes Localized release as 11.1.1.2 (Dickens) Calc Manager support for BSO Fusion Financials and E-Business Suite
Data and Metadata Loading Drill-through/ drill-Back

See also ERP Integrator ATT recording July 22nd, 2009

Unified Calculation Management Essbase and Classic EPM Apps

Calculation Manager
Single interface for Hyperion Planning, Financial Management and Essbase Graphical flow provides better understanding of calculation process Re-usable rules to share among applications Central repository of all calculation objects For Essbase BSO, deployment step will push the generated calc script to the Essbase server.

Drill-through Overview
Provide data drill back capabilities ERP Integrator
Drill-through to Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Source Application EPMA Creates Planning or HFM cubes Non-planning Essbase not supported in Zola Target URL ERPI landing page

Fusion Financials
Source Application Fusion Financials Creates Essbase cubes Target URL Fusion GL

Drill-through Overview
EBS

Fusion Financials

ERPI

EPMI

EAS

EPMA

Define Drill through definitions using MaxL

Essbase

HFM

Planning

FDM ERP Integrator Process

Source
General Ledgers E-Business
Suite

Target
ERP Integrator
Dimensions & Hierarchies
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Metadata & Data EPMA

Reporting

E-Business Suite

Oracle Data Integrator

Smart view EPM Apps FR

ERP Integrator

Shared Staging Tables FDM

PeopleSoft
Fact Data

Data

Drill Drill Back

SAP File-based Data or SQL Pull

Drill-through Essbase Persistence

Persisted in <database>.db file No outline restructure on DT editing Dynamically use the latest DTs Database copy handles .db files

Creating Drill-through definitions

Fusion Financials or EPMA will create Drillable Essbase cubes by storing drill through XML URLs Components of Drill-through definitions: (a) Name: Name of the drill through definition (b) XML containing Drill through-URL. Contains URL Link which will is used for drill-through to landing page. (c) URL Level-0 Flag: A Boolean flag indicating whether drill through only is available at level 0. (d) Drillable region definitions: Symmetric regions defined using CALF functions. - Multiple entries text input (Ex: table), each entry requires member set + member
CALF functions are metadata functions that can be used for security definitions or for specifying drillable regions for DT.

Example
URL Name: Drill through to Fusion GL

URL XML: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <foldercontents path="/"> <resource name=" Assets Drill-through Fusion GL" description="" type="application/x-hyperion-applicationbuilder-report">
URL Level-0 Flag: True Drillable region: region 1: current_assets, Oct-08 region 2: liabilities, @Idescendants(Yr 08)

Drill-through XML - Babelfish

XML contains drill-through URL etc Babelfish compliant Clients resolve the URL links

Babelfish URL Link

Example
http://glserver:port/fusionapp/Assetsdrill.jsp?$SSO_TOKEN$&$CO NTEXT$&$ATTR(ds,pos,gen,level.edge)$

Substitution variables
Server, port variables SSO token POV context (fully qualified names) Grid specific variable like edge, position Gen, level information

Landing page resolved into fully qualified URL

Intersection, layout etc

Main API Changes

New C API for managing Drill-through definitions Corresponding Java API Clients get cell drill through definitions through Babelfish XML

Query API Changes

Grid API
New query option for color coding (ESSG_OP_GET_DRILLTHRU_URLS) New flag for GL URL drillable cells (ESSG_CA_GLDT) New API EssGGetIsCellDrillable

MDX API
New query option for color coding New flag for GL URL drillable cells New API EssMdxIsCellDrillable

No support for Report Writer

Clients Supported
Smart View through APS Planning forms through Planning FR through ADM driver

No support for Excel Addin

Administrative Interfaces
Essbase Administration services MaxL scripting

EAS Drill-through Management

Right-click on db to edit DT definitions

EAS Drill-through Management

New Drill Through MaxL statements

The following MaxL statements are available for managing drill through definitions.

create/alter drillthru app.db. urlName using xml_file temp.xml on <member expression> level0 only ; - For creating or editing drill through definitions Drop drillthru app.db.urlName; - For deleting drill through definition Display drillthru app.db; - For viewing all available drill through definitions on a particular database

Display drillthru app.db.urlName; - For viewing a drill through definition

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