Reduce size of Runtime Prompts in Hyperion Planning applications

Hyperion planning users sometimes, when running a business rule that require some kind of selection through a runtime prompts window will complain that the OK and Cancel button are not displayed on their screen, as seen below. The runtime prompt window is too big for their screen resolution, so those buttons don’t show up and users……

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Download, install and configure Smart View

Here is an easy one. So you were told you have to start using Smart View: instead of using the old Essbase Excel add-in or because your company chose to use Essbase, Planning, HFM… for all their EPM needs. Either way, you’ll have to download, install and configure Smart View. You can download Smartview directly from the Oracle……

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Hyperion Planning Dimension Updates

Starting with version 11.1.2.3, Hyperion Planning rolled out some cool new functionality for dimension (and data) updates to your planning applications. The idea is to make it really easy to update your dimensions without using ODI, the Outline Load Utility, the Planning Admin Extension for Smart View or manually. We’ll look at the Planning extension……

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Update the Workspace Smart View version

This is quick tip for any admin that needs to update the Smart View version that is available to users for download from the Hyperion Workspace console. I was able to follow these steps so far since  Hyperion version 11.1.2.2 and this is still accurate for 11.1.2.3.500. As always be careful, and make sure the Smart……

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Blank Hyperion Workspace Homepage

Sometimes when connecting to Workspace, you will get a message saying the start up document couldn’t load, resulting in a blank Hyperion Workspace homepage. This is because most of the time users have not been granted access to the location where the homepage is stored or sometimes it’s because the homepage file is simply gone, deleted by mistake.……

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