Cell Comment and Supporting Detail with User ID

Question

Hi,
I have created couple of SQL to generate the report on Cell Comments and Supporting detail from Planning repository tables 11.1.2.1.
This is working as expected Now I have additional requirement to provide the User information who added the cell comments or Supporting detail
Please let me know if anyone has this before - I wanted to know where the user information stored in these tables when someone entered cell comments
--Cell Text
SELECT
HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES.OBJECT_NAME AS Scenario,
HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES4.OBJECT_NAME AS Version,
HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES2.OBJECT_NAME AS Department,
HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES5.OBJECT_NAME AS YEAR,
HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES3.OBJECT_NAME AS Period,
HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES1.OBJECT_NAME AS Account,
HSP_CELL_NOTE.NOTE_ID,
HSP_CELL_NOTE_ITEM.CONTENTS
FROM HSP_CELL_NOTE
INNER JOIN HSP_CELL_NOTE_ITEM
ON HSP_CELL_NOTE.NOTE_ID = HSP_CELL_NOTE_ITEM.NOTE_ID
LEFT JOIN HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES
ON HSP_CELL_NOTE.DIM1 = HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES.OBJECT_ID
LEFT JOIN HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES1
ON HSP_CELL_NOTE.DIM2 = HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES1.OBJECT_ID
LEFT JOIN HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES2
ON HSP_CELL_NOTE.DIM3 = HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES2.OBJECT_ID
LEFT JOIN HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES3
ON HSP_CELL_NOTE.DIM4 = HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES3.OBJECT_ID
LEFT JOIN HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES4
ON HSP_CELL_NOTE.DIM5 = HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES4.OBJECT_ID
INNER JOIN HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES5
ON HSP_CELL_NOTE.DIM6 = HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES5.OBJECT_ID
--Supporting Detail
SELECT
HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES.OBJECT_NAME AS Scenario,
HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES4.OBJECT_NAME AS Version,
HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES2.OBJECT_NAME AS Department,
HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES5.OBJECT_NAME AS YEAR,
HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES3.OBJECT_NAME AS Period,
HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES1.OBJECT_NAME AS Account,
HSP_COLUMN_DETAIL_ITEM.LABEL,
HSP_COLUMN_DETAIL_ITEM.POSITION,
HSP_COLUMN_DETAIL_ITEM.OPERATOR,
HSP_COLUMN_DETAIL_ITEM.VALUE,
HSP_COLUMN_DETAIL.DETAIL_ID,
HSP_COLUMN_DETAIL_ITEM.GENERATION
FROM HSP_COLUMN_DETAIL
INNER JOIN HSP_COLUMN_DETAIL_ITEM
ON HSP_COLUMN_DETAIL.DETAIL_ID = HSP_COLUMN_DETAIL_ITEM.DETAIL_ID
LEFT JOIN HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES
ON HSP_COLUMN_DETAIL.DIM1 = HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES.OBJECT_ID
LEFT JOIN HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES1
ON HSP_COLUMN_DETAIL.DIM2 = HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES1.OBJECT_ID
LEFT JOIN HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES2
ON HSP_COLUMN_DETAIL.DIM3 = HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES2.OBJECT_ID
LEFT JOIN HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES3
ON HSP_COLUMN_DETAIL.DIM4 = HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES3.OBJECT_ID
LEFT JOIN HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES4
ON HSP_COLUMN_DETAIL.DIM5 = HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES4.OBJECT_ID
INNER JOIN HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES5
ON HSP_COLUMN_DETAIL.DIM6 = HSP_UNIQUE_NAMES5.OBJECT_ID
Regards,
KP

Answer 1

I like to think of the cell comments like post-it notes. If you use them sparingly, they're very useful. If you use them all the time (or use comments in every cell) it's unlikely that they will be as effective.
With regards attaching a document, I think the same can be said.
With regards supporting detail, it always strikes me that if you need more detail within a given cell, that the system should be accommodating this through component child members, rather than a mix of some cells containing supporting detail and others not. I understand that it's quite nice functionality to have though, and looks good when demo'ing.
I think the main take away from this is that every time you show the comments etc to people the first question you get is "Can you report all the comments for a given time period?" and the answer is of course unfortunately "Not easily using a supported method".
Just my thoughts...