5 Working with Viewpoints

Viewpoints provide a subset of nodes for you to work with. For example, viewpoints may represent different cost centers which require maintenance across applications such as financial applications and Planning and Budgeting Cloud applications.

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Each viewpoint uses a single node set as its source and may be constructed using one or more node types depending on the business requirements. Viewpoints add business purpose to a node set based on specific properties and validations.

There are two classes of viewpoints:

• Normal viewpoints enable you to access current data
• Time labeled viewpoints are read only viewpoints that enable you to access data from a historical point in time.

For more information on viewpoints, see:

• Understanding Viewpoints

• Navigating Viewpoints

• Validating a Viewpoint

• Inspecting a Viewpoint

• Changing the Order of Displayed Properties

• Comparing Viewpoints

• Copying a Viewpoint

• Downloading a Viewpoint

• Subscribing to Viewpoints

You make changes to data in viewpoints by creating requests. For more information, see About Requests.