Calculation Manager for Hyperion Planning Training Guide

ORACLE CORPORATION

Oracle Hyperion Planning Calculation Manager

Fusion Edition, 11.1.1

29 May 2008

3 Oracle Hyperion Planning, Fusion Edition 11.1.1

Table of Contents

Lesson 1: Introduction to Calculation Manager ..................................................................................4

Introduction to Calculation Manager ..................................................................................................5

Exercise 1 Navigation within Calculation Manager ........................................................................7

Exercise 2 Navigation using List view .......................................................................................... 18

Exercise 3 Navigation within Custom View.................................................................................. 21

Lesson 2: Rules creation ................................................................................................................... 23

Exercise 4 Create, Validate and Launch a simple rule .................................................................. 24

Exercise 5 Copy and modify an existing rule ................................................................................ 42

Exercise 6 Create, Validate and Launch an Advanced Rule ........................................................... 58

Exercise 7 Share rules and work with Rule sets ........................................................................... 66

Exercise 8 Import a HBR and a calc script into Calculation Manager ............................................. 72

Exercise 9 Manage the Rule Library ............................................................................................ 75

Lesson 1

Introduction to Calculation Manager


Lesson 1: Introduction to Calculation Manager




Calculation Manager is a module of EPMA that Planning and Financial Management

users can use to design, validate, and administrate business rules in a graphical

environment.

Calculation manager provides a graphical rule designer which allows creating and

editing simple and complex business rules, in using different components like member

ranges, conditions, formulas, scripts, loops.

Formula and script components can be shared and reused in different rules in different

applications.

The rule designer also provide predefined calculation logic called Templates. Available

templates can be used for clearing, copying, allocating and aggregating data, as well as

goal seek logic for calculation of type Amout/rate/unit.

Calculations entered in a rule can be generic and flexible through the use of variables

and Run Time Prompt (RTP).

A rule can be validated against the applicatoin view and against the deployed Planning

application.

The user can view the Essbase calc script generated, and can edit it in the graphical

mode.

Rules can be grouped into Rule sets (aka sequences in HBR)

Calculation manager provides features to administrate the rules, rule sets and shared

components in a library organized by Application, plan type and type of object. Another

way to classify calculation objects is to use custom folders.

The rule library also allows search and filtering of Calculation Manager objects.

Rules can be deployed individually or all together per application, through the

deployment options available.

In terms of migration, Calculation Manager provides a UI based integration wizard,

which for one selected application, will get rules and sequences and related objects

from the HBR repository and will migrate the elligible HBR business rules turn into

graphical rules. HBR Macros will turn into graphical templates.



Calculation Manager also allows importing an Essbase calc script for the file system and

store it in the library as a graphical rule.

Calculation Manager is the central repository for all calculation objects for all

applications. These calculation objects can be navigated via different views. The System

View displays calculation objects by application, by rule type and by object type. The

List View allows filtering of the objects and displays the results in a flat list. The Custom

View allows the organization of calculation objects in custom folders for easy navigation.

This workshop will serve as an introduction to navigating through existing rules that

have been created in the repository. It will familiarize you with some of features offered

within Calculation Manager. There are subsequent workshops to create new calculation

rules and to deploy rules to applications.

Prerequisites

Installation and configuration of EPM Architect. Calculation Manager and Planning

Login as the Admin user to have full security access to all features.

Considerations

Review the Calculation Manager Overview powerpoint presentation before beginning

the workshops in this document



Exercise 1 Navigation within Calculation Manager

Objective

Calculation Manager is an integral part of EPM Architect. Calculation Manager can be

accessed from within the Application Library or from the workspace. For the purpose of

this workshop, you will view the list of applications and access Calculation Manager

from the Application Library.

Once you are in Calculation Manager, you will be presented with the List View. There

are many ways to navigate through the calculation objects within Calculation Manager.

In this exercise, you should become familiar with how to navigate and view different

calculation objects within the repository.

Exercise Steps

1) Access the Application Library via the Navigate \ Administer \Application Library menu

selections. A list of application views available will be displayed in the upper pane.



2) Select the TotPlan application from the list of application views. The rules information will

be displayed in the pane at the bottom right hand corner of the screen. The rules are

grouped by plan type. The first column displays the number of rule sets created for the plan

type. The second column displays the number of rules within the same plan type.

3) Access Calculation Manager via the Navigate \ Administer \ Calculation Manager

menu. The default System View within Calculation Manager is now displayed. The System

View displays all calculation objects within the repository. The objects are organized by

application type.



4) Expand the Planning product folder to view the list of available applications for Planning.

Select the TotPlan application and expand the folder. A list of subfolders by plan type is

displayed (RuleSets, Capex, Ops, Plan1, Plan2, Wrkforce).

5) Select the Plan type folder Plan1 and expand the folder. A list of subfolders by object type

will be displayed ( Rules, Formulas, Scripts, Templates). If each object type subfolder is

expanded, the list of available calculation objects for the object type will be displayed. If

you know the type of object you are looking for, you can navigate directly to the object type

folder and locate the object.

6) .Open the rule called Eden Calculate Revenue



7) With the Rule Designer for the Eden Calculate Revenue rule opened, please note the four

main areas within this page. The left pane is the Object Palette. The top section lists all of

the new objects that can be inserted into the flow chart. The bottom section contains the

list of existing shareable objects that can be dragged and dropped into the flow chart. The

flow chart area on the top right contains the flow of the calculation logic. The bottom pane

contains the properties tab, the Formula, Script or Global Range or Variables tab and the

Usages tab. The information in the bottom pane corresponds to the object selected in the

flow chart. If the Begin object is selected from the flow chart, the corresponding property

information regarding the rule is displayed. If either the Script component (ABC) or the

Member Range component objects are selected from the flow chart, the corresponding

conditional statement details are displayed in the bottom pane.

Review properties for each component available in the flow chart.



When finished, from the Existing Objects panel, expand TotPlan then expand Plan1 and

expand Rules. Select the rule called Eden Forecast Seasonal Growth, right click and select

Open.

8) Select each object on the flow chart and review the corresponding information in the

bottom pane. Please note that each object displays the Caption field. The Caption for each

object will be displayed on the flow chart. The purpose of the Caption field is to allow the

designer to enter more descriptive text for the object to be displayed on the flow chart. If

the Caption is not entered, the object Name will be displayed instead. Try to modify

Caption if none is entered and see impact in the flow chart.

Select the second formula component (like in the picture below) from the flow chart and

review the corresponding property information for the component object. Select the

formula tab to view the collection of calculation statements in grid format.



9) In addition to Formula components, a rule can also contain Script component objects ( ).

A Script component contains a collection of valid Essbase Script statements. If Essbase

script is preferred over the graphical flow method of developing rules then Script

component objects can be included in the rule files. Note that Script components can

happily co-exist with the graphical objects and provide a method for gradually migrating

existing Essbase Script rules to the graphical methodology. Select the first Script component

next to the Begin component to view the sample script. Script component are commonly

used to declare Essbase set commands.



10) Calculation Manager can also display the complete script generated by the flow chart. Click

on the Begin component, and select the Script tab.



11) Tab back to the System View and select another rule to view. Expand the Capex subfolder,

expand Rules and open the rule Add Asset.



12) The Add Asset rule contains many loop and conditional objects. For easy navigation within

the flow chart, a loop or conditional object can be collapsed by right-clicking. This allows a

portion of the rule to be viewed at one time. Collapse and expand some loop and

conditional objects within the flow chart to view the changes of flow chart display.

13) In order to view more of the flow chart on screen, either drag the handle of the Slider icon

to the left or click on the Shrink button .

Adjust the slider to view the flow at different levels of magnification.



Note that while the view is “zoomed out” as indicated by the Zoom icon displayed to the

right of the slider bar, the flow chart cannot be edited. To edit the flow chart, move the

slider handle to the right-most position or click on the Expand button until the Edit icon

is displayed.

Note that you can show on a specific part of a rule using a red area defined with the mouse.

Select a specific part of the rule you want to zoom in with the mouse, then Click inside the

red area in order to show the zoom of the selected area.



14) Tab back to System View and select other rules to view. Close any unused tabs.



Exercise 2 Navigation using List view

Objective

In addition to navigating the objects within the default System View, rules objects can be

easily located by using the filter options available in the List View. The objects can be

filtered by application, by calculation type, by object type, by label and by last update

information. The List View displays the filtered objects in a list. The objects can be sorted by

selecting the appropriate column heading.

Exercise Steps

1) Access Calculation Manager using Exercise 1 as a guide. If continuing from Exercise 1, from

the System View, select menu option View \ List View. The system will display the filter

options to allow selection of the filter criteria. Select the application type Planning, select

the application TotPlan and the object types Rules and Formulas. Hold down the “Ctrl” key

to make multiple selections.

2) After making your filter selections, the system will retrieve the calculation objects and

display them in the list format. Sort the objects by selecting each column heading.



3) Select the Filter toolbar icon and test the other filter options by selecting the Advanced

Option tab. Select all objects with a label containing “Asset”.



Then select all objects with a label starting with “Eden”. Also select objects that have been

modified between a range of dates such as July 1st to July 31st if possible.

4) From within the list, select any object and open from the right-click menu. The object will be

opened in a separate tab. Close any unused tabs when completed.



Exercise 3 Navigation within Custom View

Objective

In addition to navigating the objects within the System View and List View, the objects can be

organized using custom folders. Within the Custom View, various levels of custom folders can

be created. Calculation objects can then be dragged and dropped in the folders. A folder can

contain objects from different applications and can also contain objects of different calculation

types or object types.

Exercise Steps

5) Access Calculation Manager using Exercise 1 as a guide. If continuing from Exercise 2, while

within the List View, select menu option View \ Custom View. The Custom View will be

displayed with existing folders created earlier.

6) To create a root custom folder, right-click on Planning and then select menu option New \

Folder. To create a sub-folder, right-click on the parent folder and select New \ Folder.

7) Expand and collapse the folders. Create additional custom folders. Drag and drop existing

calculation objects from the Existing Objects pane to the left of the custom folders.



8) Select any calculation objects from the folder, right-click and open to view. The system will

display the object in a separate tab.

9) Close any unused tabs when completed.

Lesson 2

CALCULATION MANAGER FOR ORACLE HYPERION PLANNING


Lesson 2: Rules creation

There are 7 tasks that will be covered as a part of this workshop:

• Create a simple rule made of templates for copy and aggregate and made

of simple formula component, member ranges, substitution variables and

Run time prompts. Validate and launch this rule and get results in

Planning.

• Create a more complex rule based on conditions, shared components and

run an allocation calculation. Validate and launch this rule and get results

in Planning.

• Shares these rules across multiple applications.

• Create a rule set, launch it, and merge variables.

• Migrate HBR rules.

• Organize the rule library.

• Import a calc script.

Calculation Manager for Oracle Hyperion Planning


Rules creation There are 7 tasks that will be covered as a part of this workshop:

Create a simple rule made of templates for copy and aggregate and made of simple formula component, member ranges, substitution variables and Run time prompts. Validate and launch this rule and get results in Planning.

Create a more complex rule based on conditions, shared components and run an allocation calculation. Validate and launch this rule and get results in Planning.

Shares these rules across multiple applications.

Create a rule set, launch it, and merge variables.

Migrate HBR rules.

Organize the rule library.

Import a calc script.

This workshop is designed for users to become familiar with the functionality provided

by the Rule designers, the rule library and the migrate/import functions.

Exercise 4 Create, Validate and Launch a simple rule

During this exercise, the user should be able to accomplish the following tasks:

• Create a new rule

• Drag and drop components in the flow chart

• Use member range and formula component

• Check the script

• Call member selector to select member and members through functions.

• Validate the rule against the application view and against the deployed

application

• Find the rule in Planning and Launch it.

Exercise Steps

1) Access to Calc Manager – skip to step 2 if continuing from Lesson 1

a. http://localhost:19000/workspace

b. demoadmin/Demov52

http://localhost:19000/workspace



Click the Hyperion Workspace Navigate menu (Orange wheel icon) and pick Administer / Calculation manager

2) Create a new rule

If continuing from Lesson 1, select System View from the View menu. Navigate to Planning rules, then Totplan / Plan1. Open Rules and right click on New. Note: The rule you will create through the steps described below will do the following: For North America entities, you will initialize the Plan from last year’s Actual, and Calculate Variances and COS.



Enter name and description for this rule and click on OK.

You should see the following screen without any calculation statements.

3) Based on the TotPlan application structure, define a first Member Range to

restrict the rule to the lowest level below North America from the Entity

hierarchy. Entities : Level 0 Entities below North America

Select the Member Range component from the Rule Palette and drag and drop it to

the Rule Designer.



Use the member selector to fill the grid:



Click in the Entity grid and click on the Actions icon and select the

member selector.

Expand the Entity hierarchy and expand TotalGeography, select E01.

Use the Add Special button to pick the Relative (0) function.





4) Next step is to copy data from Actual using a template.

In the Existing Objects palette, expand System Templates.



Drag and drop the Copy Data template from the system templates palette into the member range.



Tab 1. Point of View:

Click in the Account Grid and click on the Actions icon .

Within the Member Selector window, click on the menu icon ( ) and select to show Description. Using the member selector for the Account dimension, restrict on descendants of Net revenue (Alias) using the add special button, and on Units and Price accounts and click on OK.





Select the Tab 2. Source: Using Drop down list, select Scenario as the Main Dimension and Actual as the Main dimension member using the member selector. Using the member selector, select FY09 for Year and Final for Version and click on OK.

You should have the following grid:

Select the Tab 3. Destination: Modify the Dimension main member to be Plan from the scenario dimension. Replace FY09, Final by FY010, Working.

Select the Tab 4. Options:

Using the drop-down list, select to apply a percentage to the copied data.

Enter 15 as a percentage.



Click on Save and then Select the Script Tab to have a look at the generated Essbase

script:



5) Calculate Scenario Variances using formula

Drag and drop a formula component after The Copy Data template.

Enter Variances in the caption box.

Fill the grid with the following formula: "Act vs Plan”= Actual->Final ->FY09 – Plan "Act vs Plan %"= "Act vs Plan" / Plan You can type it, copy paste it from this document and call the member selector (these members belong to the scenario dimension)

Note: when using the member selector, If you select members from different dimensions, the cross-dim arrow is automatically generated.



After completion, you should have the following formulas:

Note the different options available when creating formula (right click on formula): You can insert conditions, add or suppress formula rows, create sub-grids and copy/paste rows.

6) Create a Cost of Sales (COS) calculation using another formula component

Add a new formula component between Copy Data and Variances.

Enter COS in the caption box.



Fill the formula grid with the following calculation: “Operating COS” = “Operating Revenue” / 2 In order to do it, use the member selector and perform a search on Alias or on Description property.



451000 – Operating COS.

Finalize the right hand side part of the formula by manually entering:

“411100” / 2

You should see the following calculation:

7) Save your rule using the Save icon

8) Validate your rule against Planning using the Validation icon



If you see the following error message:

Open the Administration Services Console for Essbase, open the TotPlan:Plan1

outline and define “Act vs Plan” and “Act vs Plan %” account members as Store Data

members. By default these two members are set to Dynamic Calc members. Save

the outline and go back to Calculation Manager.

Validate again your calculation against Plannning.

You should see the following message:



9) Deploy the rule

Select the System View tab, highlight the COS and variances calculation, right click

and select to Deploy your calculation.

10) Create a web form In TotPlan and associate the new calculation.

Open the TotPlan application. Create a new form called Plan Initialization and

Variances with the following design:

Data form name: Plan Initialization and Variances

Asymmetric columns:

Rows:

Page/point of View:



Select the Business Rules tab and associate the corresponding calculation you just have created (COS and Variances).

If necessary, launch the new rule (Note: as it is not an optimized calculation, it may take some time to execute – it may be interested to wait until the next rule/ next exercise is completed to launch a calculation done with Calculation Manager).

Exercise 5 Copy and modify an existing rule


• Duplicate a rule

• Rearrange the calculation flow

• Use condition component

• Find the rule in Planning and Launch it

• Create RTP and use it in the rule

• Check the script

• Define Launch access rights for that rule

Exercise steps

1) Copy an existing rule.



Go to the Calculation Manager System View tab. Select the “COS and Variances”

rule and select Copy To and give a name to the new calculation then OK.

Open the new rule (right-click and Open or double-click on the rule)

2) Add a condition to the new rule.

Drag and drop a condition component to the flow chart, between the two formulas (COS and Variances formulas).



Condition is: If the ratio Gross Profit / Operating Revenue is, for last year’s Actual, greater or not than 50%. (Last year’s actual is defined by the cross dimension combination Actual->FY09->Final) Tip: As you will have to often use the following cross dimension string: Actual->FY09->Final, to be more efficient in the rules maintenance, you will create a variable names “Actual_Prior_Year”, and you will use this variable in your previous formula component instead of the cross dim string. a. Create a new Variable called Actual_Prior_Year With the Tools menu, select Variables. Expand the Planning tree on the left hand pane, and select TotPlan. This will show all the variables available for rules designed against this application. Expand TotPlan and select Plan1. You can create a variable using several ways: Right click on Plan1 and select New, or Right click in the left hand side panel and select New, or Highlight the File menu and select New > Variable. Fill the Properties tab as Follow:



Save the variable and close the Variable tab.

b. Go back to the rule, in the flow chart click on the condition.

Enter the following caption to this condition component: Gross Profit Ratio >

50%

Call the condition builder ( ) from this screen



Choose Data condition

Type the condition using member selector and variable selector for defining

the cross dimension selection:

"400000"->{Actual_Prior_Year} / "410000"->{Actual_Prior_Year} > 50%

which is equivalent to

“Gross Profit”->{Actual_Prior_Year} / "Net Revenue"->{Actual_Prior_Year}>

0.5

Add the condition to the upper grid using the Add icon ( ), then click on

ok



Move the COS formula into the True statement of the condition, using a drag and

drop.

Modify the caption to this formula component (High COS)

3) Add a second condition

Drag and drop a new condition component into the false statement of the first condition component Or Copy the first condition, and paste it on the false horizontal lane using right click options. Enter/ update the condition: "Gross Profit Ratio"->{Actual_Prior_Year} > 25%

("400000"->{Actual_Prior_Year} / "410000"->{Actual_Prior_Year} > 0.25) Copy the High COS component to the true statement of the second condition and change the formula to: Operating COS = Operating revenue / 3. Set the caption of this formula component to Medium COS



Medium COS:

4) Finalize the condition

Copy the High COS component to the false statement of the second condition and

change the formula to: Operating COS= Operating revenue / 4

Set the caption of this formula component to Low COS



5) Restrict the COS calculation on level 0 Segments, below Seg01

Drag a drop a new member range to the left of the condition group. Call the member selector and choose the segment dimension. Pick the Seg01 segment, choose Relative 0 in the add special Click OK Move the Gross Profit Ratio Condition block inside the segment member range.



6) Aggregate partially the Segment dimension

Drag and drop an Aggregation system template outside the Segments member range and before the Variances formula. Fill this template as follows

Using 1.Point of View tab: Restrict on Plan Using 4. Partial dimension aggregation (sparse) tab, check Segments, perform an aggregation on Seg01 and pick descendants as aggregation level for the sparse dimension1.



7) Restrict calculations

Drag and drop a member range component right after the Copy Data template Fill it with Plan Drag and drop the condition group into this member range (using the Segments Member range). Drag and drop the Aggregation template into this range

Drag and drop another member range component just before the member range on Plan Fill it with FY10 and Working (use member selector – select these 2 members in this member selector)



Drag and drop the member range on Plan within the member range on FY10 and Working Drag and drop the Variance formula component outside the member range on plan, and inside the member range on FY10 and Working

8) Restrict the whole Rule on HSP_InputValue (HSP_Rates dimension) and Local

(currency dimension)

Go to the begin component Select the Global Range tab. Enter HSP_InputValue & Local or use the member selector

9) Aggregate the Entity dimension

Select the second member range for FY10, Working, right and select Collapse.

Drag and drop an Aggregation system template before the End component. Fill the Aggregation template with the following: Restrict on "Plan", "Act vs Plan", FY10, Working, and Distribution in the 1. Point of View tab. Select Entity as the Sparse Dimension 1 using the 2. Full Dimension aggregation tab.



10) Validate the rule

Click on Actions / Validate or click on the green check box Check Planning to validate the calc script logic Final Rule flow chart should look like this:

11) Deploy the rule



Click on Actions / Deploy

12) Launch the rule

Go back to Planning (through the navigate button / Application / Planning / TotPlan if necessary). Edit the form “Plan initialization and Variances” and associate the second rule “COS and Variances advanced” and save changes. Click on the folder where you the web form is saved. Open the webform. Verify data before calculation. Launch the rule “COS and Variances”, refresh and check data after calculation. Note: this second calculation should take some times to execute.

13) Use Substitution variables

Go back to the rule designer in the workspace. You will replace FY10 by an Essbase substitution variable that already exists: CurrYr You will replace FY09 by an Essbase substitution variable that already exists: PriorYr The Essbase substitution variable in that TotPlan application is designed as an Application variable. Find the right components and make the change in typing or calling the variable selector. 14) Create a variable for Run time Prompts

Go back to the rule library and call the variable designer by clicking on Tools / Variables Expand the Planning hierarchy on the left hand side and select Global.



Right click in the right pane and select new, or click on file / new / variable Name it Currversion in the Properties tab and select Member as type. Select Version as Dimension Type, check the RTP box and enter Select Version as RTP Text.

Click on Save.

15) Apply RTP in the rule

Go back to your rule and replace “Working” by {Currversion} in the required components. Save the rule



Select the Begin component and check in the ‘Variable’ Tab, that this Run Time Prompt is present.

16) Repeat tasks 10, 11 and 12: Validate, Deploy and Launch.

Note: validating a RTP without a default value should generate an error. Modify

the Currversion RTP by assigning a default value.

17) Edit the script

Duplicate your rule using a File > Save as, and edit the script (Menu Edit / Script).

Move the 15% increase formula into the second FIX on [FY10, Working] and remove the first FIX on [FY10, Working] (or &CurrYr, {Currversion}) Go back to graphical (Menu Edit / Graphical). Notice that the templates have been replaced by regular components (this is the expected behavior) Test the rule again.



Initial Script Modified Script

18) Apply Launch security

In Planning, go to Administration / Business Rule Security. Select your rule, and click on Assign Access. Give users and group a launch access to this rule and Close: Add a Launch access to Carol only. Add a No Launch access to Henry. Give users and group access to the Plan initialization and variances web form to Carol and Henry.

Reconnect to Planning with a user which does not have launch access - Henry, and make sure he does not see the rule. Reconnect to Planning with a user which has a launch access – Carol , and make sure she can see and launch the rule.



Exercise 6 Create, Validate and Launch an Advanced Rule


• Copy paste groups of components

• Use a shared component

• Use Run Time Prompt (RTP)

• Use the Clear Data, Copy Data and Allocate templates

• Use the Aggregation template

Exercise Steps

1) Create a new rule and call it: Generate Forecast

2) Define member ranges

Select the Begin component, and in the Global Range tab, enter HSP_InputValue for the

HSP_Rates dimension. You can type it or call the member selector

In the flow chart, drag and drop a member range component and define the following

selection for the Entity dimension: Relative 0 below “North America”

3) Copy data

You will initialize Forecast FY10 based on existing Actual FY09 data and Plan FY10 for

unknown months. You will use 2 templates to do it.



Within the previous member range component, drag and drop a Copy Data template

and initialize it as follows to copy data from Actual,Final,FY09 for Jan to {CurrMonth} to

Forecast, Working, FY10 and the same period range.

Select tab 1. Point of view

Period Jan:{CurrPrd}

Account @IDescendants(“IncomeStatement”)

Select Tab 2. Source and fill with:

Select tab 3. Destination and fill it with:

In the Options tab, choose to clear destination data prior the copy



Drag and drop a second Copy Data template and fill the rest of the year from {CurrPrd}

to December: Plan, FY10, Working , {CurrMonth} to December to Forecast, FY10,

Working, {CurrMonth} to December .



4) Set a new Member Range

Drop a new member range after the last Copy template, and fill it with Forecast,

Working and FY10

5) Adjust Prices and recalculate units

Within this member range, add a formula component for initializing the prices for each

entity in using the last year Actual (Actual, Final, FY09) and add 7%.

Recalculate the units with the formula: Units = “Operating Revenue” / Price

Restrict this 2 lines formula to Relative 0 of Segments, below “Electronics” (Seg01)

(drop a member range component for segments and move the formula in this member

range)

6) Aggregate Data.

Aggregate the Segments dimension using an Aggregation template, outside the member

range on segments.

For this template, do a partial aggregation as follows:



7) Check the script

You can at any time, check what script is corresponding to your rule.

Click on the Begin or End component, and click the script tab to check the corresponding

script.

Go back to your formula component on price and replace Actual->FY09->Final by

{Actual_Prior_Year} which is a variable defined under TotPlan/Plan1.

8) Validate deploy and launch the new rule.

Open the TotPlan planning application.

Use the webform “01 Income Statement” in the financial statement folder.

Modify the webform in order to display Units and Price before the Net Revenue account

and add the new calculation.



Modify Page and Point of View:

Open the webform and check price values – Compare to prices stored for Actual Final

FY09.

Launch the rule

Check Income statements for Plan, Forecast, Actual

Browse on segments and entity and check data

Make sure data copied and calculated properly.

9) Modify the rule

Select the North America member range (E01), do a “copy group” and paste it at the

end of the rule.

(you can Collapse the first North America group - double click or right click / collapse -

to have more space).

In the duplicated group, change the member range from North America (E01) to EMEA

(E03) in the @relative selection; also change the Caption to EMEA for the member

range.

10) Shared component utilization

Within the EMEA member range, delete or remove the Price adjustment formula.



Select the Price adjustement formula located into the North America group:

Edit the Properties tab and check the Shared box. Give a name to this shared formula:

“Price Adjustment” and Save.

Right click and select “Copy Reference” and paste it within the Electronics (Seg01)

member range in the EMEA group.

Change the increase rate within the formula modifying 1.07 by 1.08.



Select the formula within the EMEA group and see that the formula has been updated.

The Price Adjustment formula is now a shared and reusable formula.

In the Existing objects pane, expand TotPlan, Plan1 and see the saved formula “Price

Adjustment”. Right click and open it.

Click on the Usages tab to see which rule is using that formula.

11) Replace members with Run Time Prompts

Create three RTPs: version, year, scenario as the Plan type level.

Go back to the rule and replace FY10, Forecast and Working by these RTPs when

appropriate in the calculation.

12) Validate and Deploy the rule.

13) Launch the rule and test RTPs.

Using the webform “01 Income Statement” (or the one you have created) and with the

Business Rules tab, modify the design and test RTP option between Run on Save, Use

Members on Data Form and Hide Prompt.



14) Check Data

Exercise 7 Share rules and work with Rule sets


• Share rules across application

• Duplicate rules

• Create a rule set

• Merge and hide variables

• Work with Cross application rule sets

Exercise Steps

15) In the system view multi select the rules you created in your application or select

several rules under TotPlan.

16) Share these rules with some other applications, using the “Create shortcut” function

available in the right click menu.

Create shortcuts for these rules to the Finsrvcs Application (Plan 1 for all)



Note: in order to create calculation shortcuts you must have at least two EPMA enabled

Planning applications.

Validate these rules in each application if relevant.

In this example, as Finsrvcs doesn’t have the same dimensionality compared to TotPlan,

you will not be able to validate.

17) Deploy these rules to these new locations

Go in the deployment view (View menu / Deployment View)

Expand the locations which have received these new rules, and check the rules which

you want to deploy.



Select an application which you want rules to be deployed to, and right click on deploy

to deploy the rules.

When the deployment is finished within the EPMA Job Console, go back to the

deployment view and refresh the status.



Go to Planning and check that the rules are present.

Make a change to one of the initial rule (under TotPlan).

Make sure the status is updated in the deployment view.

Deploy the modified rule in Finsrvcs.

18) Create a Rule set

Go back in the system view

From your initial TotPlan rules folder, create a rule set (File > New > RuleSet) and name

it: myRuleSet



Add several rules using drag and drop in the RuleSet Designer.

Save and validate the RuleSet using the Actions menu.

Deploy the rule set.

19) Merge variable

Make sure you are using common RTP between the rules in the rule set.

If that is the case, use the Merge variable option.



Deploy and Launch and make sure the merge is working.



Exercise 8 Import a HBR and a calc script into Calculation Manager


• Import a Business Rules

• Import a calc script

In this exercise, the user will connect to the Administration Console for Essbase and

export a Business Rule and a Calc Script. Both will be import into Calculation Manager as

new rules.

IMPORTANT NOTE: be sure you have available Business Rules in Oracle Essbase

Administration Services.

1) Export a Business Rule.

Connect to Administration Console for Essbase (demoadmin/Demov52). Expand

Business Rules and Repository View.

Expand Rules, select “Eden IT Allocation” and do a save as “Eden IT Allocation export”.

Do a right-click on Business Rules ( ) and select Export Business

Rules. Go down to the list, and select your new calculation “Eden IT Allocation export”.

Export the rule to your desktop and select the TotPlan:Plan1 Essbase outline to finalize

the export.

2) Go back to Calculation Manager. Using the System View tab, select File > Import.



Select the rule saved on your desktop, use Skip Existing Objects for Import Options and

click on update Location Details. Fill Details.

Import the rule and verify you can see it under TotPlan, Plan1 the imported rule.



Open the rule from the System View tab, analyze the imported graphical flow and the

associated script. Validate the rule and correct any issue you have encountered during

the import process.

3) Import an Essbase Calc Script

From the System View tab of Calculation Manager, Select File menu > Import.

Browse to C:\ORCL\HYSL\products\Essbase\EssbaseServer\app\TotPlan\Plan1 and

select any calc script you want to import.

Update Location details and import he calc script.



Refresh the System View and verify you have the new rule under TotPlan:Plan1.

Open and analyze the imported rule. See that the graphical flow is automatically

generated. Make modification and save the rule.

Exercise 9 Manage the Rule Library


• Find a rule, rule set, a component within the rule library

• Identify usages (who uses what)

• Organize rules and rule sets in Folders

• Filter the library

This is a free form workshop.

Use the View / Custom view to organize your rules in a folder and subfolder structure.

Use the view / List view to get a flat list of all Calc manager artifacts and use the filter

options to find a particular rule, component or template

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