Hyperion Financial Management:

Create and Manage Applications

3
Creating Applications

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Objectives
At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:

Create application profiles

Set up applications

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Creating Application Profiles

You use application profiles for the following purposes:

To define the languages available for entering descriptions

To define the application calendar

To define the application frequencies

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Accessing the Process Pad

You can access the process pad from the Hyperion Financial
Management Windows desktop client.

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Defining Languages
You can enter up to 10 languages.

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Defining the Calendar

Hyperion Financial Management provides a flexible calendar:

You can completely customize the base periods, summary periods,

start year, and number of years.
You can use the standard, custom, or manual method to define the
calendar.
Summary Period
Quarter 1

Base Periods
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Editing Frequencies

You can edit the frequency labels

and descriptions, which are displayed in the View dimension.
You can add frequencies which you set up later in the period editor.

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Editing Periods

You can edit period labels and add descriptions.

Each hierarchy level corresponds to a frequency.

Add multiple
periods.

Add
child
.

Add
sibling.

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Saving Application Profiles

Save application profiles either locally or on the application sever with the
extension .per.

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Application Requirements
You should have this information on hand before you create an
application:

The name of the application server cluster

The label and description of the application

The file name and path of the application profile (.per file)

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Setting Up Applications
You can access the Create Application task from the File menu.

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Summary
In this lesson, you should have learned
how to:

Create application profiles

Create applications

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