Model

The Model Manager is a visual user interface on the Web for creating, viewing, and maintaining the models and associated artifacts in your application.

• Model Manager is an alternative user interface for building and managing models using a Web browser.
• Model Manager provides enhanced model management capabilities.
• Model Manager visually represents models and all associated model artifacts (dimensions, maps, formulas, calculations, scopes, views, reports, and attributes).
• Model Manager provides a visual representation of how the models are connected, from which model the source data is coming and to which model the data is being moved.
• Model Manager provides the ability to create models and sub-models by leveraging existing model dimensions.

The Model Manager functionality is available in the Web version of Spotlight.

Purpose of the Model Manager

The Model Manager is a visual user interface on the Web for creating, viewing, and maintaining the models and associated artifacts in your application. What you see in Model Manager is dependent on your user access. Power users have access to everything. Contributer User access is based on model access, navigation access, and dimension security setup. Reviewer Users will see only views and reports.
With Model Manager, you can:

• Select a model and run the views or reports associated with it (all users)
• See the model's structure, such as dimensions, members, and attributes (Power and Contributor users with access to the model)
• See what calculations, formulas, and scopes are associated with the model (Power and Contributor users with access to the model)
• See how data flows into and out of the model and the associated maps (Power and Contributor users with access to the model)
• See the statistics associated with the model (Power and Contributor users with access to Model Setup)
  
  
• To learn how to enable the Model Menu in Planful Application, click here
• To learn how to create a Model in the Spotlight Web, click here
• To learn how to create a Model by copying an existing Model in Spotlight Web, click here

Creating an External Source Model

Power and Contributor users can create an External Source Model from the Grid or List layouts. Reviewer users cannot create an ESM model. To learn how to create an External Source Model, click here.