Guidelines for Using the Profitability Applications Console

The Profitability Applications Console provides several ways to manage Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management applications and dimensions.

• Create a Profitability and Cost Management application using the Actions, New option with Dimension Source set to Master Cube. This type of application uses Oracle Essbase as the source of its dimensions (Creating Applications with Dimensions from an Essbase Master Cube).

• Create an application using the Actions, New option with Dimension Source set to File. This type of application uses specially formatted flat files containing dimension definitions (for Management Ledger applications only; see Creating Management Ledger Applications with Dimensions from Flat Files).

• Use Actions, Import Template to create applications of File type with template files containing dimensions, metadata, and other artifacts created by exporting templates from existing Management Ledger applications (for Management Ledger applications only; see Creating Management Ledger Applications by Importing Template Files)

  Note:

  You can only modify application dimensions by using the original dimension creation system (Essbase for Deploy Origin type Master Cube, or flat files for Deploy Origin type File). See:

  • Creating an Essbase Master Cube for Profitability and Cost Management
  • Preparing Templates and Flat Files for Creating and Updating Management Ledger Profitability Applications