Exporting Data

To export data to a file:

  1. From the Home page, select Application, and then select Overview.

  2. On the Application page, select Actions, and then Export Data.

  3. On the Export Data page, click Create, and make your export data selections:

    Table 3-6 Data Export Options

    Data Export Option Description
    Location

    Select the target environment of the data export file:
    Cube

    Select a cube from the drop-down list.

    Note: The driver/column dimension in the Export Data job definition needs to be dense.

    File Type

    Select from the following options:

    • Comma delimited: Creates a comma-delimited .csv file for each artifact.

    • Tab delimited: Creates a tab-delimited .txt file for each artifact.

    • Other: Creates a .txt file for each artifact. Enter the delimiter character that you want to use in the export file. For a list of supported delimiter characters and exceptions, see Other Supported Delimiter Characters .

    Smart Lists

    Specify Export Labels or Export Names.

    Dynamic Members

    Select whether to Include or Exclude dynamic calculation members during export.

    Note: Excluding dynamic members from exported data improves performance during data exports.

    Decimals

    Specify the number of decimal positions (0-16) to format the data after export, or select None to use the default precision formatting.

    For example, specifying a decimal value of 3 in the Decimals field results in the exported data displaying three digits to the right of the decimal point, wherever applicable.

    Selecting None formats the decimal number as specified in the default precision settings, whereas selecting 0 formats the data to display a whole number. For example, if the data value you are exporting is 123.45678, selecting 0 exports the data as 123, and selecting None exports the data as 123.45678.

    Missing Data Label

    Specify how to display missing values in forms. Enter an alphabetic value that does not exceed 16 characters. You may begin the value with a # (number sign). If no value is entered, the system defaults to #MISSING.

    Note: If you are running the export data process to create a template file for a data import and you define a custom missing data label during data export, the Missing Data Label defined during the import data process must match the label defined here.

    Slice Definition

    Select the slice of data to export.

    If you are exporting data for multiple members simultaneously, make sure that at least one of the members you select is a non-shared member. You can export shared members individually because it's equivalent to selecting a base member. However, selecting level 0 descendants of a parent member whose descendants are all shared members is equivalent to not selecting any members from a dimension and the export will not run. Therefore, you must ensure that one of the members selected is a non-shared member.

  4. Optional: If you selected Outbox as the location of the export data file, click Save as Job to save the export operation as a job, which you can run immediately or schedule to run at a later time.

    • You can run up to five export jobs at one time.
    • When scheduling export jobs, you can specify a unique output file name for each job.
    • For more information about scheduling jobs, see Managing Jobs.

  5. Click Export, and then specify where to save the data export file.

Note:

To reduce the size of data export files, if a slice has an entire row of #MISSING values, the row will be omitted from the data export file.

Troubleshooting

For help with troubleshooting issues if you get an Oracle Essbase query limit error when exporting a large number of data cells from ASO cubes, see Handling Issues Related to Large Data Export from ASO Cubes in Operations Guide.