Creating and Editing Outlines
You can create content in the new outline in the following ways:
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Create a new application and cube, and add dimensions and members, by importing an Excel-based application workbook.
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Open the empty outline created by default when you create a database and add content manually.
See Add Dimensions to Outlines Manually and Add Members to Outlines Manually.
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Build dimensions using a flat file and a rules file.
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Import tabular data and allow Essbase to create a cube
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Import an On Premises application using LCM utility export and CLI import.
You can create an outline using the create database MaxL statement.
You can copy an outline using the create database as MaxL statement.