About Dynamic Members
Dynamic members are members that users can create when working with business rules. They're sometimes referred to as "on the fly members". An administrator enables end users to create dynamic members under a parent member and must refresh the database to create the required placeholders in Oracle Essbase. In business rules with runtime prompts, users can then create members by entering desired member names in the runtime prompts. Subsequent database refreshes will rename used dynamic children to the names specified by the end users and recreate the required placeholders in Essbase. For information about working with business rules and dynamic members, see Oracle Hyperion Calculation Manager Designer's Guide.
If a parent member is enabled for adding dynamic children (as described in this section), users can create new members by entering their name in the runtime prompt.
To enable a parent member for adding dynamic children:
If all the above conditions are met, when users run the business rule with the runtime prompt, they enter the name of the dynamic member, and then click Launch. If the business rule runs successfully, the member is created in the dimension hierarchy under the dynamic member's parent.
Child members that you import under parent members enabled for dynamic children are added as dynamic child members if there are dynamic member placeholders in Essbase. After the placeholders are full, any remaining children are added as normal members, and cannot be used until the database is refreshed.
Note:
If you load a parent member that is enabled for dynamic children and its child members during the same import, the child members are loaded as normal members. This is because the database must be refreshed to create the placeholders in Essbase.