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Creating application Follow the steps required by your database provider to ensure that your database administrator account has rights to create a new database. Navigating to the FinancialDataManagement-Templates11113.zip file and extracting it to a c:HyperionproductsFinancialDataQuality Reports. Directory.

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Document: Loading Data to Essbase using FDM

Description:
(This Document covers configuring Financial Data Quality Management
(FDM) for Loading Data to Hyperion Essbase.)

History:
Version 0.1 0.1 Description Change Initial Draft Review 1st Author Gourav Atalkar Amit Sharma Publish Date 10-Sep-2011 10-Sep-2011

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Table of Content

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Creating application Installing and Configuring Hyperion Essbase Adapters Building Import Format Loading Data

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1) Creating FDM application

Follow the steps required by your database provider to ensure that your database administrator account has rights to create a new database. Create user schema in oracle database:

Log on to FDM by performing the following actions:

Step: 1) Open Internet Explorer and enter the following URL: http://<servername>/HyperionFDM/, where <servername> is the name of your Web Server. Step: 2) Select <New Application>, and enter the user name, password, and domain of an account that can create FDM applications. Step: 3) Click Logon.

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Step: 4) On the General tab in the New Application form, enter the name, description, and path of the new application.

Step: 5) On the Database tab perform the following actions:

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Verify that the application was created successfully, and click OK.

Step: 6) Navigate to the FinancialDataManagement-Reports11113.zip file, and extract the FinancialDataManagement-Reports11113.zip file to a c:\Hyperion\products\FinancialDataQuality\<appname>\Reports. directory.

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Step: 7) Navigate to the FinancialDataManagement-Templates11113.zip file, and extract the FinancialDataManagement-Templates11113.zip file to a c:\Hyperion\products\FinancialDataQuality\<appname>\Outbox\Templates. Directory

Step: 8) Select Start > Programs > Oracle EPM System > Financial Data Quality Management > Workbench > Workbench Client.

Step: 9) Select your application, enter the user name, password, and domain (if necessary), and click OK

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Step: 10) Select the Report tab, and then select File > Import.

Step: 11) Select the file C:\Hyperion\products\FinancialDataQuality\FDMWork\<app_name>\Reports StandardReportsSQLServer1111Active.xml (for SQL)or C:\hyperion\fdm\<appname>\Reports\StandardReportsOracle1111Active.xml (for Oracle), and click Open.

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Step: 12) On the General tab, select Reports and click OK.

2) Installing and Configuring Hyperion Essbase Adapters

After you create an FDM application, you install and configure the Hyperion Essbase adapters. Hyperion Essbase adapters enable interaction between the FDM application and the Hyperion Essbase applications. Adapters have two componentsDLL/EXE and XML metadata. DLL/EXE files contain the system-specific instructions for interacting with target or source systems. XML files contain all data that relates to the current FDM application.
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Previously we have downloaded the following driver Hyperion Essbase adapter is highlighted one.

Step: 1) Extract the V17386-01.zip file to same directory you will get following zip files inside that.

Step:2) Extract the ES11x-G4E_1013.zip file to C:\Hyperion\products\FinancialDataQuality\SharedComponents.

Step: 2) Open Financial Data Quality Management > Workbench > Workbench Client on the Adapters tab, select File > Import.
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Step: 5) Select ES11x-G4-E.xml, and click Open.

Step: 6) On the General tab, select Integration Adapters, and click OK.

Verify that the adapters are displayed in the Target System Adapters section on the Adapters tab

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Step:7) Select File > Register Adapter.

Step: 8) In the navigation pane, expand Target System Adapters > FM11x-G5-C.xml, right-click Machine Profile, and select Add Machine Profile.

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Step: 9) Log on to your application by performing the following actions: a. In Internet Explorer, enter http://<servername>/HyperionFDM/, where <servername> is the name of your Web server. b. Select your application and enter the user name, password, and domain (if necessary). c. Click Logon.

Step: 10) Select Administration > Application Settings

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Step: 11) In the System Code list, select ES11X-G4-E, and click Save.

Step: 12) Select Administration > Integration Settings.

Step: 13) In Integration Settings, perform the following actions:

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1) In the Options list, select Application name. 2) In the App Name box, enter the name of your Hyperion Essbase application.

Step: 14) In Essbase DB Name enter the essbase database name:

Step: 15) In Integration Settings, perform these actions: In the Options list, select Logon Method. In the Method list, select a logon method: Unified: The FDM user name and password are used to log on to the target system. For this option to be usable, the target user name and password and the FDM user name and password must be the same. Global: The user name and password specified for global logon is passed to the target system. Users enter the same user name and password to connect to the target system. Click Save.

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Step: 16) In Options Select Global Logon Information and specify there essbase login info

Step: 17) Move to Workbench Client and Expand the Dimension tab in Target system adapters We need to add one period dimension to application for loading data from FDM to Essbase application and accordingly same way we need to add it to workbench adapter dimension list for accessing it from the web client.

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Go to Workbench select the Target adapter Right Click and select configure

Same way perform for all dimensions

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Step: 18) Select Activities > Maps to test the connection to Financial Management.

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Step: 19) Click Add to add a row.

Step: 20) Click in the Target EB Account cell, and select Browse for Target Value.

You have successfully installed and configured FDM for a Hyperion Essbase application

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3) Building Import Format

Import formats are used to define the layout of data files so that they can be loaded into FDM. An import format must be assigned to each data-load location. After creating the import format, the data file layout must remain the same while loading data. If the layout of the data files for a location(s) changes, it must be updated in the import format for that location. Import format tasks: 1. Create import groups 2. Build the import format for each group 3. Assign the import formats to data-load locations Step: 1) Create Import Group select Add button

Step: 2) specify the group name, file type and delimiter.

Step: 3) Add the import layout of the source file

Step: 4) Select Build button

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Step: 5) Browse for source file

Step: 6) select the column from the file and drag to the following icon.

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Step: 7) add one more row to grid and select the source column name and select build button.

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Step: 8) Same way add other columns also

Step: 9) Assigning import Format to data load location. Go to location in metadata tab select the location to which you want to assign the import format select workflow behavior and select the recently created import format group name from import format dropdown list.

Loading data:
Step: 10) Save it and jump to Workflow task go to Upload file browse for the source file select open.