Tips & Tricks

Below are our tips and tricks:

Hyperion Planning Smartlists

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A feature in Hyperion Planning that provides users with a drop down list ...
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Essbase – Run Length Encoding (RLE) Compression

What is This?

When Essbase stores blocks to disk, it can compress the blocks using one ...
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Adding Reports to Favorites in the Workspace

It's not uncommon for users to be daunted by the prospect of finding the reports they need amongs...
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Logging Which Users Run Which Reports - Financial Reporting

It’s critical to see which reports are being used and equally important to see which ones a...
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How to replace #missing with a true numerical zero rather than a text formatted zero

Essbase add-in users would be familiar with the concept of “missing” data. In the Ess...
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How to get only a single IE window when accessing the Workspace

The default url for accessing the workspace is http://servername:19000/workspace . This url resul...
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Using Web Analysis to query the Hyperion Planning Audit Log

Hyperion Planning creates an extremely good audit log recording every change made to the system. ...
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How to Encrypt Passwords in MaxL Scripts

There are obvious security concerns at storing clear-text passwords in scripts. Here is how you e...
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Shared Workspace Pages in the Hyperion Workspace (v11)

Users of the v11 Hyperion Workspace will be familiar with the “home” page that provid...
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Adding header rows in Hyperion Planning data entry forms (all versions)

A common user request is to adopt a layout similar to what’s shown on this data entry form,...
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