Working with Data Files

There are two ways to add data to a Oracle Hyperion Financial Management application:

• Create a data file and load it into an application.

• Enter data in a data grid.

Creating and loading a data file is an alternative to manually entering data in a data grid. You create data files in an ASCII format supporting multibyte character sets (MBCS) or a file encoded with the Unicode format. By default, data files use the DAT file extension. A data file contains sections that map the file data to dimensions, and can contain these sections:

• Column Order

• View

• Data

• Line Item Detail

• Description