Part II: Designing and Creating Applications and Databases
Part II describes how to create single-server Essbase applications and databases. This part includes information on attributes, aliases, linked reporting objects, and currency conversion applications. Part II contains the following chapters:
- Case Study: Designing a Single-Server Application, describes the rules used to design a single-server, multidimensional database solution for your organization. It contains detailed examples that show how to apply these rules.
- Creating Applications and Databases, describes how to create and manage applications and databases.
- Creating and Changing Database Outlines, describes how to create and modify database outlines using the Application Manager.
- Setting Dimension and Member Properties, illustrates how to set attributes for the dimensions and members in an outline using the Application Manager.
- Working with Attributes, describes attribute dimensions and members and how to define them using the Application Manager.
- Creating and Managing Aliases, describes how to create one or more aliases for dimensions and members in an outline using the Application Manager.
- Linking Objects to Essbase Data, describes how to link various kinds of data with any cell in a Essbase database.
- Designing and Building Currency Conversion Applications, introduces you to currency applications, describes how to create them, and explains how to calculate currency conversions.