Global Artifacts

Table D-3 Global Artifacts

Artifact	Description	Last Modified Time	Last Modified User	Editable	Dependencies
Attribute Dimensions	Dimensions whose type enables analysis based on the attributes or qualities of dimension members	Yes	No	Yes: CSV	None
Auto Predict	Auto Predict prediction definitions	Yes	Yes	No	Associated Dimensions
Calculation Manager Rulesets	Objects that contain rules and other rulesets that can be calculated simultaneously or sequentially	Yes	Yes	Yes: XML	None
Custom Menus	Menus that Service Administrators create that are company- or application-specific. Users can right-click a member and select a menu item to open a URL, data form, or workflow.	Yes	No	Yes: XML	If menu is of type Workflow, then Approval Units
Dashboards	At-a-glance views of key information, organized and presented in a way meaningful to a business need.	Yes	Yes	Yes: XML	Associated Data Forms
Exchange Rates	A numeric value for converting one currency to another; for example, to convert 1 USD into EUR, the exchange rate of 0.8936 is multiplied with the U.S. dollar. The European euro equivalent of $1 is 0.8936.	Yes	No	Yes: CSV	Currency, Period, and Year
Jobs	Customized actions	Yes	Yes	Yes: XML	Associated Dimensions
Approval Unit Hierarchies	Specifies which application approval units and members are part of the budget process	Yes	Yes	Yes: XML	Entity, Scenario, Version and other associated dimensions
Report Mappings	Maps dimensions between Planning applications and reporting applications to enable reporting on Planning data in a reporting application, aggregations and queries on Smart Lists, and linking Planning data to multiple reporting applications for consolidations	Yes	Yes	Yes: XML	Associated dimensions and Smart Lists
Schedules	Scheduling information of actions that are set to run at intervals.	Yes	Yes	Yes: XML	Associated Business Rules, Report Mappings, Jobs
Smart Lists	Custom drop-down lists that users access from data form cells (instead of entering data)	No	No	Yes: CSV	None
Spread Patterns	A custom spreading pattern that determines how data is distributed from a parent to its children. The pattern is available from the Mass Allocate and Grid Spread menus.	No	No	Yes: XML	None
Standard Dimensions	Dimensions associated with a single cube	Yes	No	Yes: CSV	None
Substitution Variables	Global placeholders for information that changes regularly	No	No	No	None
Task Lists	A detailed status list of tasks for a particular user	Yes	No	Yes: XML	If task is of type Data Form, then associated Data Form. If task is of type Workflow, then Approval Units.