Using Workspace, you can assemble reports and snapshots into a book, which enables you to generate output for those reports in one session. You can also configure your book to generate several versions of a report that are run for different member selections. By creating a book containing those reports, you can run all reports at once. The reports contained in the book can be printed or viewed individually or as an entire book.
There are two types of books that you can define and save to the Explore repository:
Books. reports, and snapshots can be added to a book. When you run a book, the data within the reports is dynamically retrieved from the database; the data within the snapshots remains static.
Snapshot books. A book can be saved as a snapshot book. All reports are converted to snapshots containing static data for that period of time. The data contained in the reports, and a table of contents, is created when you save a book as a snapshot book. Any time a snapshot book is viewed, data-level security does not apply. Data-level security is applied when the snapshot book is created and is based upon the data level security that is set up for the user that saved the snapshot book.
Using Workspace, you can perform the following additional tasks with books and snapshot books from Financial Reporting:
Email links to the books or snapshot books from the repository.
Make an exact copy of books or snapshot books in the repository.
Import books and snapshot books from a file system outside of the repository. When you import the book, it is saved within the Export repository. You can then perform any tasks on the book.
For complete information on the above topics, see Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management Workspace User's Guide.