Creating Metadata

Consulting partners and the Planning administrator design applications and create an application framework with Performance Management Architect application administration. There is only one application owner per application. The owner can grant ownership to another administrator. The application framework includes:

Application name
Number and names of plan types
Calendar structure
Whether the application is a multicurrency application
Default currency

After the application framework is created, dimensions and members are added to the application and assigned to the plan type in Performance Management Architect. There are up to eight required dimensions in an application:

Currency (for multicurrency applications)
HSP_Rates (for multicurrency applications)
Account
Entity
Scenario
Version
Period
Year

Table 3. Creating Metadata

User	Task
Administrator	Designs and creates applications
Administrator	Defines metadata (currencies, scenarios, versions, calendar)
Administrator	Enters exchange rates
Administrator	Defines attributes and attribute values
Administrator	Loads custom dimensions