KScope14 What Would Happen in HFM - Part 3

Copyright ©2014 Chris Barbieri, Edgewater Ranzal

What Would Happen If I Did…In Hyperion Financial Management?

Part 3

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Ever Wonder What Would Happen If…

● Changed the OrgByPeriodoption?

● Added a dimension?

● Changed an account’s Line Item Detail option?

● Disabled Allow Adjs for an entity?

● Changed the alias of a custom dimension?


Changed the OrgByPeriod option?

● Organization By Period allows for changing entityhierarchy relationships

● Purpose is to preserve the consolidated parent results while allowing for varying methods per period

● Does not impact any other dimension

● Periodic consolidation is central to this

● Zero View settings for derived data must be Periodic

● [Active] account

● Ownership management


Enable Org By Period on Existing App

● Start with Comma4Dim

● App settings● Default value for Active: “1”

● By default, all children are active for all of their parents for all time when they are added to the application

● Org By Period Application: Disabled

● Default consolidation rules

● Scenario settings● Most common settings for

Actual


Entity Structure

● Start with Ranzal under United States

● Typical attributes


Simple Data set

● Revenue

● Accounts Receivable


Q1 Ranzal Consolidates to United States


March 1 Ranzal Moves to Europe

● Non-OrgByPeriod entity move

● Simple click and drag, re-load

Fastest way from California to Spain


Consolidate All With Data

● … but wait!

● United States should reflect the amounts for periods during which Ranzal was a child

● …and Europe should not consolidate January and February


Ranzal Must Roll up to Both Parent Entities

● Metadata will show a superset of all entity relationships

● How do I control this?


Ownership Management● Select the parent entity in the point of view

● Rows show its children

● Set Ranzal Active = Yes for United States in January and February

● Set Ranzal Active = No for United States in March● And the reverse for Europe● Value is balance recurring: it will stay Yes/No until it changes

● Does not carry from year to year


Information Can be Loaded

● System accounts are stored in the [None] value of parent entities


Anatomy of Data File

● “Active” for United States does not appear

● since the App Settings default is Active

● “0” indicates “No (not active)”

● “1’ re-establishes the Active status


Back to that Consolidation

● Must “Consolidate All With Data” after ownership changes

● HFM ignores the [Active] flag until you enable OrgByPeriod in the App Settings


Enable Org By Period

● And Consolidate All With Data

● Getting closer

● I don’t like YTD results: Periodic got reversed out?


Zero View Settings

● Can I change this?

● Really wanted “Periodic”

● Not without rebuilding the scenario – all data and journals

● Refer to “What would happen if I did…in HFM” from Kscope 2012

Zero emissions


● If I have an amount in February and then suppress a zero for March, what does that mean?

● Implies the zero was March periodic activity

● Need to load Periodic

● Or else load zeroes

● Don’t fill the database with zeros!

Data Load Method

● Hmm. That changes the FDM integrations

● And the journals.

● I really need to think this through…


If I Want Org By Period in the Future

● Configure the scenario like this:

● Configure the data integration process to load Periodic

● No effect on the balance sheet –only flows

● Then can enable the OrgByPeriod app setting later if needed

Most companies won’t like this

because we want to load Actuals YTD!

… to capture prior period adjustments…


Added a dimension?

● When we last saw our hero in New Orleans, he showed us how to add a dimension to an HFM application

● But what would happen to:

● Calc Manager?

● Smart View?


Application currently has Custom1..4

● Dimensions migrated from earlier release

● With no alias, they are:

● Dimension names if you had an alias prior to 11.1.2.2

● Another topic entirely…


Smart View

● Ad Hoc

● FunctionsHsGetValuefunction has dimensions I

put there

Other dimensions

defined in POV Manager

Dimensions in Rows & Columns

or in POV bar


Calc Manager Objects

● Only Data Range matters● All other objects are dimension independent

● Custom dimensions are hard coded● These will break if you rename a custom● Or migrate to an app with different customs

Dimension names are embedded

in Data Range


Add a “Myths” dimension

● Fifth dimension

Remember these folks from the Rock Opera?


Smart View

● I didn’t change any Functions

● POV manager added Myths dimensions

● Now in background POV for everyone

● Ad Hoc

● POV bar added Myths dimension as well

● Both default to [None]


Calc Manager?● Existing rules don’t change

● I deployed again, no errors

● Extracted in classic mode, no changes

● What about functions that use the full POV?● GetCell, GetCellNoData,

GetCellRealData, SetDataWithPOV

All use [None] when not specified

● Hs.EXP applies equally to all members of new dimension

● Add a new data range object● Then the new dimension appears


Changed an account’s Line Item Detail option?

● Add two sample accounts: Enabled

● Enable for scenario too


Enter Line Items

● This is entered using the scenario’s Default View

● … ties in with the Org By Period discussion


Disable (and Enable) Line Item Detail

● Change Account settings

● Load in Replace mode

● Does not accept this change

● Skip integrity?

● … that worked

● Line items? Still there

● Summary aggregation? YEP

● I can overwrite these

Do NOT try this at

home!!!


● Load back original metadata

● Still can’t do this without disabling Check Integrity

● Yes, line item detail is still there

● Though I overwrote some while it was switched

Can I get the line items back?


Disabled Allow Adjs for an entity?

● Post a journal

● Disable Allow Adjs for RanzalAdj entity

● Load this

● With “check integrity” enabled

● Can’t proceed


Skip Integrity Check

● What if I skipped that check?

● Journal entry is still there!Confirmed: You can’t herd cats

● But then I tried to unpost it


Chris [email protected]

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