Best Practices for Applying Your Design

After reviewing the design guidelines and best practices in this section, you're on your way to designing a successful application that meets your business needs. You can now quickly and easily set up your application.

Use the information that you gathered to set up your application. The application setup wizard builds the foundation of your application based on your answers to simple questions.

As an example, here is how some of the information you gathered correlates to your application.

Table G-1 Applying Your Design to the Application

Research on Requirements	Application Wizard Setting
The number of historical years to include	The Start Year for the application
Your planning horizon	The number of years chosen for the application
The planning processes to support	The scenarios included in the application. You can either add scenarios in the application wizard, or you can add them later.
Whether you need to store multiple submissions of Plan or Forecast	The number of submissions correlates to versions in the application. You can add versions in the application wizard, or you can add them later.
Whether you plan in multiple currencies	If you plan in multiple currencies, answer Yes in the application wizard. You'll add currencies later. Select your reporting currency in the wizard.
Time periods	If you require weekly distribution such as 445, 454, or 544, select the base time period as 12 Months, and then select an appropriate Weekly Distribution option. Even monthly distribution is the default.