1. Security Guide
  2. Retail Predictive Application Server Cloud Edition Security Features
  3. Planning Data Schema Security
  4. Dynamic Position Maintenance

Dynamic Position Maintenance

The creation of positions within the dimensions of an RPASCE application is a process that is performed by loading the position information from flat files or through the integration of an RPASCE application with other Oracle Retail applications. However, the business processes performed by some RPASCE applications make deferring position creation and management to an off-line process unacceptable.

Dynamic Position Maintenance (DPM) allows user to create and manage certain positions in an online process while working within a workbook. Users can create positions within constraints based on application security settings and the workbook configuration and enforced by the RPASCE Server instance.

Users can also modify and or delete existing positions created through DPM operations within constraints based on application security settings and the workbook configuration and enforced by the RPASCE Server instance.

Users are not allowed to modify or delete positions which the application's security settings do not grant them access to; they may also not modify positions of levels and dimensions not allowed by the configuration of the workbook in which they are working. Finally, formal positions managed through data load or integration with other Oracle Retail applications cannot by modified in any circumstances through DPM operations.

Enabling DPM functionality within a workbook involves the following process:

  1. Configurator must enable DPM on particular dimensions in the application.

  2. Configurator must enable DPM on the specific workbook template.

  3. Configurator or system administrator must ensure there is enough space to accommodate the volume of DPM position given by the bitsize of the dimension.

  4. Administrator must give WRITE permission on that workbook template to the user. Any users granted WRITE permission to the workbook template can create DPM positions.

When a user creates DPM positions, they are treated as temporary positions; flat file operations and integration with other Oracle Retail applications do not update these positions. Online Administration Tools (OAT) contains a Manage Informal Positions task that can be used for maintaining the informal positions of any levels in the application. This task can convert positions from formal to informal or from informal to formal. It can also remove informal positions, create informal positions in bulk, and copy data slices between positions in measures.