Creating and Managing Model Views
The Model Views feature of Profitability and Cost Management enables users to define a slice of an application that can be saved, copied, and modified.
These slices, called model views, help to filter the data shown on screen or handled by the current task. Model views hold selected business dimensions constant while allowing the POV, Balance dimension, and Rule dimension to change as appropriate. For example, the Rule Balancing, Allocation Tracing, and Copy POV screens have POV controls while the Rule and Balance dimensions are hard-coded. For a given POV, selected customers, products, and other business dimension members can remain onscreen while related Rule and Balance dimension values change when calculated with different data.
Model views differ from points of view (POVs) in that POVs look at time and scenario dimensions instead of business dimensions. For example, a POV might retrieve actual or forecasted data for a selected month and year.
You can select model views in several screens to limit dimensions and members to retrieve. For example, when copying POVs, if the outline for an application is too large, you can use a model view to define a subset of data to copy. If necessary, you can perform multiple copy operations using different model views to cover the full set of data you need to copy. You can also use model views to limit the range of your work when tracing allocations, performing rule balancing, and more.
For more information, see Creating Model Views and Managing Model Views.
Complete the following tutorial learning path for an introduction to model views with examples of how to use model views to limit data within a procedure.
