Initiatives in balanced scorecards

Hello,
We want to create automatically Initiatives in SEM BSC.
We have found OSS note 727400 which describes how to import a complete scorecard via an XML file for an initial load.
What we need is to create and update only Initiatives.
Unfortunately there is no API to create initiatives, so the only chance would be to create directly entries in appropriate tables.
How can I find all the tables involved and
a scheme with all the relationships between those tables ?
Or do you know an alternative solution ?
Thanks for your advise.
Best regards,
Anne De Maesschalck

If you keep all your selections and restrictions in a BW report that is attachd to a measure, then you can explore reporting agent to do this. As far as I know, you cant do in scorecards.
Ravi Thothadri

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