Many of us have been tasked with building a dynamic 13-month balance sheet, 20-month forecast or some other rolling report that spans multiple years. Good news! There are a couple fairly simple ways to build rolling reports in Hyperion Financial Reporting Studio. One can be accomplished through leveraging the “Range” function; the other is through the “RelativeMember.” This post will focus on how to leverage the "RelativeMember"function.

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Many of us have been tasked with building a dynamic 13-month balance sheet, 20-month forecast or some other rolling report that spans multiple years. Good news! There are a couple fairly simple ways to build rolling reports in Hyperion Financial Reporting Studio. One can be accomplished through leveraging the “RelativeMember” function; the other is through the use of the “Range” function. This post will focus on how to leverage the "Range"function.

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Customized business rules, variables, and menus can empower end-users while still maintaining governance over the budget. Calculation Manager, offers the components to create, deploy, and administer business rules and maximize the capabilities inherent in Hyperion Planning to solve business problems.

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Tips and Tricks to help you make the most of Smart View

Using Smart View is one of the most important and powerful ways to take full advantage of Essbase. It offers hundreds of options to help pull, analyze, and report data. Several common questions come up when dealing with Smart View so the following is a list of tricks and tips to help you make the most of your Smart View experience.

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During daily work using HFR reports, there could be various errors that would dramatically affect your work efficiency. Some errors might even cause you to lose days of work.

Listed are a couple of common errors. The messages are confusing and sometimes don’t help at all. Below are a list of various errors and solutions based on practical experience.

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