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A Free Form Planning aka Essbase SaaS Journey — part 2, loading from LCM

Whoopsie

In my last exciting post, I stated:

Whoopsie, that’s not right. Bugger. Why? ‘Cos my Younger Taller Smarter and Definitely Better Looking Brother From Totally Different Parents noted:

Whoopsie. That’s usage of that word three times (so far). Surely some kind of record in a technical blog?

It’s up to you decide which is the bigger whoopsie: me getting it wrong or Celvin reading LinkedIn on vacation. Celvin, buddy, if you’re commenting on my many technical (and otherwise, frankly) mistakes, errors, and own goals, surely that can wait for your return to the grindstone?

My mea culpas aside, let’s see what happens when I load Sample.Basic from an LCM file. I’m not going to do this step by step as you’ve already hopefully read that bit.

Let’s look at that LCM file again

Data

A screenshot of a computer

Description automatically generated

Ooooh, in addition the outline file, there’s something called Data. Let’s open that up:

A screenshot of a cell phone

Description automatically generated

Oooh, again. That’s all of the data. See the fourth row from the bottom and the “100”? That’s a product total. LCM doesn’t export the PAG/IND files (apparently at one time it did per Celvin and I sort of remember that) but instead text, I believe because it can be

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cameronl Calculations, Data, Essbase, Oracle, Planning Leave a comment 23 January, 2020 3 Minutes

A n00b’s OneStream Journey No. 8 — Why Two Is Not Better Than One

Apologies and yet without apology

Apologies up front as the subject of this blog post is both n00bie-ish as well as somewhat advanced and awfully, awfully, awfully important. It’s super-duper important that you understand what follows because a common design requirement and an equally common design solution won’t and doesn’t take into account OneStream’s core storage model. I’ll be making references to Data Management jobs, Finance business rules, as well as Data Buffer processing which is all rather a lot for a n00b post. But all of that is exposition – the key thing for we n00bs is to understand that a design approach we all take for granted in other tools is a Bad Idea in OneStream. Happily, the solution is straightforward.

The 42 people who regularly read this blog probably know a fair bit – although logic demands that I ask why you lucky 42 read it if you already know it. Perhaps you enjoy irrelevant links to popular culture from a year that predates your time on this planet by at least 50 years. Ask your parents or better yet your grandparents to help with that sort of confusion; hopefully the balance of the post will make

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cameronl Calculations, Data, Metadata, OneStream, Planning Leave a comment 3 September, 2019 7 Minutes

A n00b’s OneStream Journey No.6 — Instant Gratification

Instant

Everyone likes fast except when it comes to slow cooking or taking a nap or when pursuing a hobby or simply enjoying oneself. Of course, instant is even better than fast. No, not instant coffee (I can only drink it while camping – I think I somehow enjoy straining out bits of dirt from the tin mug), nor instant pot noodles (a staple of my university life, never to be repeated), but instead instant aggregations. I’m a busy geek; you are too. And I want it all. Now. Instantly.

Generally, in OneStream that’s not an issue as most dimensions are dynamically aggregated with the exception – till now – of Entity. By that I mean: input data at an Account, Time, Custom Dimension (and the other required dimensions – see my previous post for an overview of them in all of their glory) intersection and a single Entity and the numbers at an aggregate level are instantly available across all of those dimensions. That’s lovely in the non-ironic sense. However, that Entity dimension, the spine of every OneStream app, is a stored dimension, i.e. the upper level members must have materialized aggregate views. To get those aggregated –

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cameronl Calculations, Data, Metadata, Planning 1 Comment 14 September, 2018 7 Minutes

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