Chapter 3 [ 115 ] 3. On the Dynamic Time Series screen, select Y-T-D and GEN 3 as shown in the following screenshot: 4. Once you click OK, the outline will be updated to reect to the changes that you have made as shown in the following screenshot: Shared members Shared members are another great tool offered by Essbase to help you increase your data and reporting versatility in a simple and extremely efcient manner. In a nutshell, a shared member is another occurrence of an already existing member in the outline. The shared member only stores a pointer to the existing outline member, thereby giving serious space and processing efciencies in the database. This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by Paul Corcorran on 5th July 2009 8601 ave. p #1, , lubbock, , 79423 Download at Boykma.Com Building the Essbase Outline [ 116 ] The benets do not end there either. What you can do is have the shared member /original member be a child to many different parents. For example, if you have a product that is available in several markets, you can organize your outline with the child members as needed for each market. The shared member can appear in several places simultaneously and be selectively calculated with relative ease. In the preceding screenshot, notice how we have the individual vehicles located in three different groups in the database outline. The vehicles under the Total Vehicles parent are the original members and the vehicles located under Total US Vehicles and Total Canada Vehicles are the shared members. By doing this, we can create different group totals from the same pool of members in the outline. There are only two main rules for Essbase shared members. You cannot tag a member as a shared member unless the same member already exists as a non-shared member and the shared members need to be the lowest members, or the Level 0 members, of their respective dimensions. Summary Well, that wraps up the chapter on the Essbase outline. We know you've been hit with a lot of information upto this point. There is a lot to know about the Essbase database outline. You have learned how to add dimension level members to the database outline and you've learned how to make decisions on how to best determine what categories of your data best t as Essbase database outline dimensions. You have learned the myriad available properties that a database outline member can have. For instance, how the child members consolidate their values to the parent member, or do the individual members store data or have it dynamically calculated. This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by Paul Corcorran on 5th July 2009 8601 ave. p #1, , lubbock, , 79423 Download at Boykma.Com Chapter 3 [ 117 ] You have also learned that there are several ways to actually update an Essbase database outline. You can perform any necessary task manually by using the EAS, but you can also perform most routine tasks automatically by either using a dimension build load process or by executing a MaxL command script. You are now at a point where you should have a good hold on Essbase applications, databases and outlines. You should also have a good understanding of multidimensionality as it pertains to Oracle Essbase. Going forward the amount of information presented to you will not decrease but the use and/or purpose of the information will as what will be presented to you now will assume you have a good base to build on. The coming chapters will now be your guide to enhancing what you know while at the same time enhancing your ability to efciently maintain and support your Essbase database whether it be loading data (many different methods shown in next chapter), calculating data, or using your data. In other words, by now, you know what to do. The rest of the book will show you how to do it better and with more options! This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by Paul Corcorran on 5th July 2009 8601 ave. p #1, , lubbock, , 79423 Download at Boykma.Com This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by Paul Corcorran on 5th July 2009 8601 ave. p #1, , lubbock, , 79423 Download at Boykma.Com Loading Data into Essbase You have learned how to perform an installation of Oracle Essbase on your server and client, and to install the Essbase Administration Services on your client as well. You have learned how to look at data in a multidimensional sense and make decisions on how to best build an Essbase database based on your data. You have also learned how to build an actual Essbase application and database, layout and build the database outline, and then experimented with some basic methods of data loading and outline building. In this chapter you will learn, hands-on, how to perform several methods of loading data into your Essbase database. You will also learn how to use the many optional data load settings and attributes that assist you with loading data into your Essbase database. Along with manually loading data, you will also learn how to automate data loads for repeated data loading from interfacing systems. Most importantly, you will learn that no matter how seemingly incompatible or dirty the input data is, Essbase provides many tools and utility option settings that allow you to convert, transform, lter, and clean your input data. Using these tools' functionality your data can quickly and easily be made ready to load into your Essbase database. A term you will become very familiar with is Essbase-friendly. Essbase-friendly data or, making your data Essbase-friendly, simply means xing up any data intended for loading into your Essbase database in such a way that you successfully load the maximum amount of data with the fewest number of rejections. Let's start making your data Essbase-friendly and then loading your friendly data into your Essbase database. This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by Paul Corcorran on 5th July 2009 8601 ave. p #1, , lubbock, , 79423 Download at Boykma.Com . 20 09 8601 ave. p #1, , lubbock, , 794 23 Download at Boykma.Com This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by Paul Corcorran on 5th July 20 09 8601 ave. p #1, , lubbock, , 794 23 Download. 794 23 Download at Boykma.Com Loading Data into Essbase You have learned how to perform an installation of Oracle Essbase on your server and client, and to install the Essbase Administration Services on. be made ready to load into your Essbase database. A term you will become very familiar with is Essbase- friendly. Essbase- friendly data or, making your data Essbase- friendly, simply means xing