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Setting Up the User POV from the Report Designer
Every data value in a report is derived from the intersection of a member from each dimension in an Oracle Essbase, Planning Detail, or Financial Management database connection. Financial Reporting enables a designer to place these dimensions on the report grid or user point of view (POV). Report viewers can change the member selected for dimensions on the user POV. This enables report viewers to customize the reports to fit their needs. The user POV can also be used in books. For more information on selecting the user POV as a member in the book POV, see Working with Books and Snapshot Books.
In a report, the member specified for a dimension in the user POV is used for all grids with that dimension on the user POV. For example, if you select the Budget member for the Scenario dimension, all grids in the report with scenario in the user POV use Budget when you retrieve data. The user POV is not displayed if all of the dimensions are placed on the grid.
The following criteria are used to show dimensions on the user POV bar: