Calculation Manager Menus

Calculation Manager menus and menu options display in addition to Enterprise Performance Management Workspace menus and menu options. The menus and options vary depending on the view you're using and the object with which you're working.

The default view of the Calculation Manager displays the following menus when you launch Calculation Manager, System View.

Note: This topic describes the Calculation Manager menu options only.

File Menu

Enables you to create objects, open and close objects, import and export objects, print rules, and log off.

Note: Not all of these file menu options are available for the products that use Calculation Manager.

• New, Rule: Creates a rule

• New, RuleSet: Creates a rule set

Edit Menu

Enables you to edit objects you select. The Edit menu is available from most of the views and from within the Rule and Component definition pages.

• Edit, Delete: Deletes an object selected in the System, List, or Custom View

• Edit, Copy: Copies selected text

• Edit, Paste: Pastes text from the clipboard

• Edit, Copy Group: Copies a component group

Note: The Edit menu isn't available within the Deployment View.

View Menu

Enables you to open different views.

• View, View Pane: Displays or hides a list of existing and new objects that you can add to rules, rule sets, components, and templates.

  Note: View Pan is the only View menu option available from within the Rule Designer and Rule Set Designer.

• View, List View: Displays a list of the objects you select on the Filter dialog. The filter dialog enables you to create a filtered list, by application type of applications, databases, and objects.

• View, System View: Displays a list of the Essbase applications, databases, and objects to which you have access. The System View is the default view.

• View, Custom View: Displays a view that you can change with folders that you create. This view enables you to organize objects in a way that's meaningful to you.

• View, Deployment View: Displays a list, by application type and application, of the rules and rule sets that are deployed and not deployed with their deployment and validation status.

Tools Menu

Enables you to install other products, search for objects, create a filtered list of objects for the List View, edit the caption of an object, and access the Variable Navigator and Variable Designer.

• Tools, Filter: Opens the Filter dialog from which you can filter by application type, application, object type (rule, rule set, formula or script component, or template), calculation type, plan type, database, deployment status, and validation status. You can also select All to display all application types, applications, objects, and databases, regardless of their deployment and validation status.

• Tools, Variables: Opens the Variable Navigator in which you can navigate to a location for which you want to create, edit, copy, or delete a variable. From the location you select in the Variable Navigator, you can display the Variable Designer in which you can create, edit, copy, and delete variables for components.

  Note: The two menu options listed aren't available within the Deployment view.

Actions Menu

Enables you to validate and deploy objects that you select in the views and from within the Rule and Rule Set Designers. Not all of the Actions menu options are available from within the views and designers.

• Actions, Validate: Validates the rule, rule set, and formula component you selected

  Note: This is the only Actions menu option available from within the Deployment View.

• Actions, Deploy: Deploys the rules or rule sets you selected.

• Actions, Quick Deploy: Deploys the rule in fewer steps than regular deployment by using a shortcut to one or more applications.

  Note: This feature is available only from within the Rule Designer for Essbase business rules.