Using Model Manager Summary

See Also:

Model Manager Layouts

Model Manager Security

Global Model Actions with the More Menu

Creating and Editing Models with Model Manager

Using Model Artifacts (Views, Reports, Dimension Browser, Attributes, Formulas, Calculations, Scopes, Maps, and External Source Models)

Running a Model Backup and a Model Restore

Overview

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 provides a visual representation of 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.

Accessing the Model Manager

Model Manager runs on the Web.

From Planful Structured Planning, Consolidation, and Reporting applications, an option named Model is available on the Dynamic Planning menu.

A Power user must enable the Model menu item within Planful Structured Planning, Consolidation, and Reporting applications. See Setup in Planful Applications for details.

Users accessing the Dynamic Planning application directly from their Web browser will automatically see the Model menu item.

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)

When to Use the Model Manager

Use the Model Manager when you want to see the models' artifacts, dependencies, or to make changes to the structure of a model.

The Model Manager makes it simple to see all of the artifacts for each model by grouping them together.

The Model Manager makes it easy to see how models relate to each other and where the dependencies are.

The Model Manager also makes it easy to reorganize your hierarchies, such as moving some products to another product group, or moving some sales reps to a different region.