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Tips, Tricks and the Things Everyone Tells You Can't be Done with Hyperion Financial Reports Alex Ladd Sr. Partner MindStream Analytics

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Tips, Tricks and the Things Everyone Tells You Can't be Done with Hyperion Financial Reports. Alex Ladd Sr. Partner MindStream Analytics. Agenda. Introduction Financial Reports Big Questions Metadata Aware Formatting & Calculations Rolling Period Reports Bursting Reports - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Tips, Tricks and the Things Everyone Tells You Can't be Done with Hyperion Financial Reports

Tips, Tricks and the Things Everyone Tells

You Can't be Done with Hyperion Financial

Reports

Alex LaddSr. Partner

MindStream Analytics

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Agenda

•Introduction

•Financial Reports Big Questions•Metadata Aware Formatting & Calculations•Rolling Period Reports•Bursting Reports•Report Annotations•Planning Details Data Source & Text•Charting Functionality

•Smart View use with Reports

•Questions

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Contact InformationEmail: [email protected]

Telephone: 917-579-0926

Introduction

Alex Ladd

• 14 Years of Planning/Essbase Experience

• OAUG Hyperion SIG Essbase Domain Lead

• Senior Partner – MindStream Analytics

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Financial Reports Questions

• Metadata Aware Formatting & Calculations• Rolling Period Reports• Bursting Reports• Report Annotations• Planning Details Data Source and Text• Charting functionality

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Metadata Aware FormattingFinancial Reports can format lines based on the position of the member in the outline

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Metadata Aware How To

Conditional Formatting based on levels allows formatting of the report without lots of maintenance.

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Metadata Aware CalculationsFinancial Reports can format lines based on the position of

the member in the outline.

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Rolling Reports ColumnsFor a rolling report you will always need 2 times the

number of rolling periods minus 1. So, for a 3 month rolling report you need 5 columns.

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Rolling Reports OutputThe months will roll and the appropriate columns will be

displayed based on the suppression. The reason you need so many extra columns is because the year will roll as well.

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Rolling Reports SuppressionOnce the columns are built you need to set the

suppression options for each column.

The suppression needs to be set around the member name that will be displayed in the column based on the members selected. When wrapping around a year you need to suppress all the months when you don’t want the column displayed.

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Bursting ReportsThe first step in setting up bursting reports is to create a

report batch

In the Workspace choose “File” then “New Document” and this window will come up, select batch.

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Batch Report ChoiceSelect a report from the left and move it to the right with

the buttons in the middle to create the list of reports that will be part of your batch

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Batch Name• After you name and save

the batch, select “Edit” and “Schedule Batch” which will bring up the Schedule Batch window

• In this window you need to select the frequency you would like the batch to run. This is done in the top half of the window and includes the point of view bar which will dictate what POV the batch uses when it runs

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Bursting Schedule Options• To enable bursting you check the

“Run Batch for multiple members in the dimension” checkbox

• Then use the member selection area to define the different members the report batch should run for

• You need to change the drop down to move between dimensions if you want to run the burst for multiple members in multiple dimensions

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Bursting Delivery Options

• You may choose multiple delivery options in this section including to print the report

• Printers need to be set up through the FR print server configuration in 11.1.2.1

• If you are bursting large or multiple reports you should enable the zip option

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Bursting Recipients

• You can enter recipients via the “Add” button but you should export the Bursting List file, edit with user name information and re-import it

• Most companies use Excel to manage the bursting list and then reimport the file as necessary to update the bursts

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Bursting Monitoring

• The final step in setting up the schedule are options for the administrator to let them know if the burst ran successfully or not.

• Most companies only check the box for “If Unsuccessful…”

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Report Annotations

• There are two ways to create new annotations• Right Click on an

existing cell in a Financial Report

• Select “Show Annotations” from under the “View” menu then select “New Annotation” from the box at the bottom of the screen

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Report New Annotation

• You may enter a title and then any text you would like for the annotation

• An annotation may also be tagged with a category so that later you can search for specific annotation types

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Annotation Context

• Annotations can be set to be cell specific or pertinent to whole dimensions• You are not allowed to use

member functions for the Annotation Context

• You can set the context for the data source as a whole or specifically by data source grid combination

• You can also add attachments to each Annotation

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Report New Annotation

The Annotation Window shows all annotation and if you double click on one the bottom portion of the window will show the whole annotation conversation

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Planning Annotations

Planning annotations can be displayed with a Financial Reports Text Function

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FR - Charting

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FR - Charting

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FR - Charting

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Smart View with Reports

• Charts and Graphs created in Financial Reports can be opened in PowerPoint, Word or Excel and then refreshed as needed.• This is very helpful for Management Reporting PowerPoint

Presentations• Reports connects to multiple Data Sources

• Smart View is built around one connection per page or sheet or slide but Reports can help solve that problem by allowing multiple data source connections in one report

• Great Complementary Tool to use with Reports• Reports can be exported to Excel in Query Ready Format

which make great starting points for Ad-Hoc Analysis

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Opening a Report in PowerPoint

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Q & A

Contact InformationEmail: [email protected]

Telephone: 917-579-0926

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Thank You!Alex Ladd – [email protected]