Exporting to Target

Use the Export to Target feature to export data to a target application, which is the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application. Select this option after you have reviewed the data in the data grid and need to export it to the target application.

Export options:

When exporting data for Essbase, you can store, add, and subtract data.

When exporting data for Planning, the following options are available:

  To submit the data load rule:

  1. From the table action bar, in Data Rule, and choose the data load rule.

  2. Click Image shows Execute icon.

  3. In Execution Mode, select the mode of exporting to the target.

    Execution modes:

    • online—ODI processes the data in sync mode (immediate processing).

    • offline—ODI processes the data in async mode (runs in background).

      Click Image shows Process Detail button to navigate to the Process Detail page to monitor the ODI job progress.

  4. In Export, select the export method.

    Export options:

    • Current Dimension

    • All Dimensions

    • Export to Excel

  5. For Current Dimension and All Dimensions export methods, in Select file location, navigate to the file to export, and then click OK.

    For the Export to Excel method, mappings are exported to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

  6. Click OK.

    After you exported data to the target, the status of the export is shown in the Status field for the data load rule in the Data Load Summary.