Hyperion Planning Security – Flashcards
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New Forms
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By default no one has access, the users must be granted access to new forms.
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Form, Task, Business Rules - Security settings
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All set inside the Planning application
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Primary Roles (most used)
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Administrator, Interactive User, Planner
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Administrator / Owner
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Open ended access. Developers. Owner is allowed to delete applications.
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Interactive User
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Reserved for Planner/Developer. Create and maintain forms, create and run business rules, create and run HAL integrations. Different from admin because they cannot assign security.
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Planners
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Typical end user. Enters data into form. Access to workflow management. Can run business rules they are given access to.
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Essbase Write Access
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Submit data via Smartview Essbase connection. No planning security applies - can accidentally enter data at upper level.
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Setting Security Roles
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This is done in Shared Services via the workspace.
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Administrator
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He is the big boss, he can do everything. He can create and manage Planning applications; he is the one who initiates the budget process (workflow), The owner can delete the Planning application, while the administrator cannot. Also, an administrator cannot do mass allocation, he needs to have the role of mass allocation to do that.
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Analytic Services Write Access:
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This is applicable to the users who already have the role of 'Planner' or 'interactive user'. This role of 'analytic services write access' lets a user use third-party products to write data back into Essbase.
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Interactive user
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This user can create/update data forms, smart view sheets, business rules, and task lists. Quite a powerful role, as the user with this role can create many important Planning objects like forms, rules, and task lists. This role is typically assigned to the head of departments/divisions.
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Manage models
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This role is dead. It's no longer a valid role, though we see it as a possible role under a Planning application. Hence, let us not bother about it.
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Planner
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He is always in the majority. He can only enter data and submit forms, run business rules, and view and use task lists. He does not have enough power to create any of these objects though. But, in any implementation, we would find that many of the users are planners
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Provision Manager
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Can assign security. We have very comfortably logged into Shared Services and had created few users and also provisioned the 'SRGD' application to the users. We were able to do so only because the user 'admin' has already the role of 'provision manager'.
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Power Roles
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We can see that the provisioned roles of the admin user are 'administrator', 'provision users', and 'Mass allocation'. These three roles are hence defined as power roles.
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View user
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These are the users who can only view the forms and data, rather than entering data.
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Changing Ownership
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Coming to the owner, there is always one owner. Yes, we can change the ownership of an application from one to the other. But, it's only the current owner who can do that.
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Types of Access
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Read Write None
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Types of Access for Period / Year
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None. These dimensions do not have security options.
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Security Refreshes
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Done through Workspace. Check "Security Filters" while refreshing an application. Admin > Application > Refresh Database
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Path for single security changes
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Admin > Manage > Security Filters > User
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Users login at Essbase
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Only have Read capabilities.
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Planning Security refreshes and Essbase security
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Planning overwrites Essbase security changes.
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Read
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Edit data within the forms but cannot change form design. Access to data is based off privileges on the application.
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Write
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Interactive roles can update form design and enter data based off security settings
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None
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Users cannot see the form. This is the default setting unless otherwise changed.
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Form Access only.....
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Grants access to the form. Users must still be granted specific access to the data intersections.
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Minimum security for a view of data
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Must assign some read/write combination to Version, Scenario, Accounts, Entities.
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Periods / Years and Access
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No access types.
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Custom dimension access
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Default - cannot assign access. @IDescendants, which is level 0 bottom up access. Forms can be designed to restrict pick lists through layout design. If you want to assign access you must set a dimension property and choose apply security. This adds complexity but may be needed to fit requirements.
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Access Precedence
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NONE overwrites READ/WRITE, WRITE overwrites READ. Individual access trumps group access.
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Conflict 1: A user is assigned direct access but belongs to a group with different access.
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Individual access beats group access.
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Conflict 2: Access is assigned to a member vs through relationship
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Member level access to data intersections is granted over user or group access.
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Required dimensions in planning (6)
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Account, Entity, Version, Scenario, Time, Year
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Grid spread
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Spreads across selected members. When a user working on a data form wants to change the data value by increasing/ decreasing by a percentage or wants to change it by an amount, then this option is handy. The prerequisite for Grid spread is to enable this option, when we created the data form.
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Differences between Grid Spread and Mass Allocate
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With Mass Allocate, its spreads to the descendants, even though they are not a part of the data form. One more difference is, after we mass allocate, the data is immediately saved without giving the user a chance to look at the values in cells and saving it later.
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Mass Allocate
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Very handy when we spread the data across the dimension. In typical implementations for top-down budgeting, data spread across the Entity dimension is very handy.
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Account annotation
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As defined earlier that annotation is additional explanation or critical commentary. We can provide the same for account and we do it with the help of account annotation. This is very handy to a planner, as he gets additional information of how to enter and what to enter in the data form.
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