Chnages to the Planning Application

Question

Hello All-
I have a planning application on 9.3.1. Right now the application is set up to use thirteen periods for budgeting cycle. Going forward we want change the application in a way that it uses twelve months standaard yearly process. The
Time Period dimension in Hyperion Planning cannot ba changed once the application is created ? All my scripts, Forms, rules etc roght now work in accordance with thirteen period. Can anybody let me know wwhat is the best practice to
change the Time Period dimension in a way that i dont have to write application from scratch & would involve minimum changes to scripts, rules etc.
Any help/advise would be appreciated.
Thanks!

Answer 1

Step one will be to move the application to 9.5 or later (recommendation would be to go to 11.1.1.3).
You can then migrate your planning application to EPMA instead of classic planning (2 minute migration that doesn't require IT). Once there you should be able to change the structure from 13 months to 12 without much difficulty. You could do this playing around in the table but unless you really know what you are doing could be a recipe for trouble.
Once you have the app to 12 months instead of 13. If you are using dynamic member list (@idescendants, @children, etc.) most of your forms and stuff should be automatically updated. Same for some of your calcs. But if you hardcoded stuff (especially in calcs) then you will have to do some manual work but not impossible.
Hope that gives you some ideas.
Others can suggest how to work around the relational backend table structures, it's just that (in my opinion) migrating to EPMA will be easier and have other benefits as well and you will also need a DBA.