Considerations when Comparing Applications to Deployed Applications

You should ignore these property differences when comparing an application to a deployed application:

  • Aggregation for Capex: If the application and member are not valid for the Capex plan type

  • Aggregation for Workforce: If the application and member are not valid for the Workforce plan type

  • Weeks Distribution: The Weeks Distribution property has been changed from a drop-down list to a boolean in 11.1.1.x. The upgrade process migrates the value, however, the difference is shown when you compare the applications.

  • Exchange Rate Type: If the new value is None and the value is read-only, then it is correct according to the restrictions placed on this property. An empty old value could cause differences to appear.

  • Skip Value: If the new value is None and the value is read-only then it is correct according to the restrictions placed on this property. An empty old value could cause differences to appear.

  • Currency: This property may appear as ID=USD versus USD in the deployed application. You can ignore this difference.

  • Default Parent: This property may show differences. This may be empty in the deployed application but correctly displays the primary parent.

  • Maximum Document Attachment Size: This value can be blank in previous releases. A blank value is equivalent to -1. Although this was corrected in 11.1.1.x, this can display a difference for applications upgraded from 9.3.3.

  • Maximum Number of Document Attachments: This value could be blank in previous releases. A blank is equivalent to -1. It has been corrected in 11.1.1.x. This may show as a difference for applications upgraded from 9.3.3.

  • Default Member: This property may show differences. It can be empty in the current state and 0 in the deployed state.

  • Type: This property may show differences. This may be empty in the deployed application and Numeric for the current application. This new property was introduced in 11.1.2.0 to handle text types. The default value is Numeric and is correct.

  • Format String: This property may show differences.

  • Use For Mapping: This property may show a difference in Currency dimensions in an ASO cube. Currency dimensions are not supported in Essbase ASO and this difference should not be an issue.

  • Hierarchy Type: This property may show a difference in Essbase ASO applications for top level members when multiple hierarchies are not enabled. The new value can be Disabled and read-only. This is correct behavior and can be ignored.