Author: - Sanjay Purohit
Audience: Hyperion Solution
Architects and Hyperion Business users
The
Hyperion world is really strange and it teaches lesson every day. We were about to start our budget cycle and suddenly
came across an issue. The issue was pretty basic but I had to spend almost two
to three days to debug it. This issue remind me phrase “Making a
mountain out of a molehill”. The issue
was with almost all the business users because they did not follow guidelines.
Our users
were not able to open the data form with right click menu. This was Hyperion
Public Sector Planning and budgeting (PSPB) application and PSPB heavily relies
on out of box right click functionality. I enabled trace: 32 log and put
planning in debug mode but nothing to read in log. Log did not tell me much. I
was stunt but I was lucky because this functionality was working for one business
user. I took this users ID as role model and compared with few users access,
security and planning PREFERENCES. These
users had selected “Remember selected page members” from planning
preference and other did not.
REASON
Most of
supplement/dependent data form in PSPB uses member from primary data form.
Please see the example below. Right click
from one data form should land to another data form with same member selection.
“Use Members on Forms does not work unless Remember
selected page members is
checked from preferences.” As per admin guide
Right click on Manage all position data form (PSPB)
This should land to you another data form
Now if
we notice- Few of dim-members such as Entity, Position, Scenario, and Version
are passed as context from “Manage all Position” to “Edit Position details form “ This functionality does not work if preference
are not setup according to Oracle guideline.
RESOLUTION
The fix
of this problem is pretty simple. User needs to “Remember
selected page members” to “Yes”.
This should solve the problem. Oracle Description of solution is “If a business rule has run-time prompts and Use Members on Forms is selected, the default member on the run-time prompt window matches the current member in the page and the POV axes of the open data form. Use Members on Forms does not work unless Remember selected page members is checked. See About Launching Business Rules.”
