Keeping Your Work Private with Sandboxes

As you build a plan or create an analysis, you may want to keep your work private as you experiment with various outcomes. Doing this work in a sandbox keeps your work private until you're ready to make your numbers public to other users.

For example, you want to see how changing the volume sold for a particular product in January can affect the product revenue for the year and the Total Revenue for the company. Working in a sandbox, you can immediately see the effect of your private analyses. You can experiment with numbers, and when they're ready, you publish the data in the sandbox. Publishing the data in the sandbox enables other to see the data.

Some basics about sandboxes:

• An administrator must enable cubes and Version members for sandboxes. (See About Sandboxes in Administering Planning.)

• Calculations and totals occur instantly as you work.

• When you're working in a sandbox, you're in sandbox view. When you're working in a form but not in a sandbox, you're in basic view (the default).

• In a single form, you can see the data you modified and the original base data.

• You create a sandbox from within a form or an ad hoc grid. You can have multiple sandboxes and switch among them.

• If you don't want to publish a sandbox, you can delete it. (An administrator can also delete your sandbox.)

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