1. Administering Profitability and Cost Management
  2. Creating and Migrating Profitability and Cost Management Applications
  3. Creating, Importing, and Exporting Applications in the Profitability Application Console
  4. Preparing Flat Files and Templates for Application Updates
  5. Exporting Template Files

Exporting Template Files

Template files are created by exporting an entire Profitability and Cost Management application — including application metadata, dimension metadata, and program artifacts — in a single operation to create one application "template" file. Exporting and importing template files can be useful, for updating applications and migrating applications from on-premise to the Cloud. Full backups and restorations are handled best by using the migration features for lifecycle management (Backing Up, Restoring, and Replicating Applications Using the Migration Features}.

Note:

Use Export Template to export application input data that is noncalculated and less than 5 million cells.

To export a template file:

  1. Open the Profitability Application Console and select the application (Using the Profitability Application Console and Other Application Features).
  2. Click Actions, and then Export Template.
  3. Review the file name and change it if you want. Extension .zip is added to exported template files.
  4. If POV data is displayed, select whether to export all POV data or clear checkboxes for data that shouldn't be exported.
  5. Click OK to start the export.

    The file is created in the Outbox. You can download it to local storage for future uploading and import. See Transferring Files with the File Explorer. for more information.

  6. You can click the Job Library icon, Job Library icon, and then Refresh to check export status.

Once created, a template file can be imported to create a new Profitability and Cost Management application as described in Building Applications by Importing Template Files.