Project Analytics (PA) Specific Question regarding Time Dimensions

Hello PA experts, i am having a difficult time distinguishing between all date options we are presented in PA Answers.
I see GL Cal, Enterprise Cal, Project Cal and then i see additional Secondary Dates listed as Accrued / Released Date.
What i am looking for is something basic but not sure which is the right date.
I need the date when certain invoices were created / hours were entered into our PA system.
I have brought in all these dates to see which one makes sense but at this point, they all have various dates.
Any help is appreciated.
Regards,

Probably the best way to work this out would be to refer to the OBIA 7.9.6 Data Lineage Worksheet available on metalink, which will show you which EBS date fields the OBIA Model Date columns refer to. I find this is a lot easier than viewing the mappings in Informatica,(although still go in there to confirm) It may be that you need to map this extra date column into the model if its not already there.
Regards,
Imran

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Hello,
I have two questions regarding time evaluation:
1. Is it possible (if yes, how) to still include a employee in time evaluation even if this employee is inactive (status P0000-STAT2 = 0). We need this in order to calculate weeks of not working (this has to be calculated). I know that for payroll this is possible wih a setting in infotype 0003.
2. Is it possible (and how) to read data back from payroll into time. For example in payroll you export something to ZL table, can you then pick this up in time evaluation schema, as there is also ZL table. Or is there another way to do this?
Thanks for you answers,
Liesbeth

hi Schrage
Why you want to evaluate the time for inactive person.
If you want you can do.
Process :
First of all you have to group your employees. and sub groups.( for inactive emp)
Assign the employee sub group grouping for PCR in Basic Pay ( IMG ).
Then come to Time Evaluation Schema. Put the Day grouping nn nn nn nn in the Parameters. and run the time evaluation. You will get the output in DZL table.
For the above process you need to configure the T510S table.
Yes you can read the payroll into time.
the same concept will run in both of the modules.
the output should appear in the ZL table only.
Here the concept is.....Some companies, they will not use the payroll wage types. only they will use the time wage types.. these wage types has to be configure in the T510S. and we have to do the wage type copying from the part of time management only if they are not using the payroll. So either in Payroll or in Time management the evaluation of time willbe the same.
Cheers
Vijai

Seeking advice regarding Time Dimension - Correction and Customization

Dear all:
Situation
1. We have a measure called HTD, Half Year to Date, which aggregates 6 months worth of data. However, I just realized that the previous consultants set HTD at LEVEL = "Week". It works fine but I feel that this naming convention is confusing, and would like to rename HTD's LEVEL.
2. We have 4 more additional periods after period 12 for adjustment purpose. What is the good practice to have a year with 16 periods?
Data
Current LEVEL for Half Year to Date is named "Week". I would like to rename this to something like "HalfYr"
200x.01 - 12 are regular periods
200x.13 - 16 are additional periods
Question
1. If I go to SQL's back end and rename my LEVEL, and then update my Time dimension, is this going to pose a problem to my historical data?
2. I would like to include additional 4 more periods to sync with BW, but at the same time not confuse my BPC users in running reports at month of December. In other words, how do I integrate the 16 period time dimension design into the concept of "1 yr = 12 months (periods)"?

Tim:
Sorry for the late reply.
We are running BPC 5.1 SP3 and SQL 2003
Yes, MONTH, QUARTER, YEAR are used for LEVEL property, and the only irrelevance is HALF YEAR which has WEEK in LEVEL property.
I think perhaps a separate data source makes sense... Have you handled any case like this before and how did you manage the "additional" periods?
Thank you! Have a great day!
Sincerely,
Brian

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Hi all,
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I'd value anyone's thoughts or experience on this.
Essbase 11.1.1 on redhat LINUX.
Thanks

Why not just build the dimension (every two years?) and incorporate a defrag routine in your data load -- I'm guessing that something is fragmenting your db although a sparse restructure shouldn't be fixing that?
This would be easy to test -- try the first approach and look at PAG file size, then try the second and look at the same. Again, a sparse restructure causes Essbase to rewrite the .IND file -- the .PAG file just gets added to as new sparse member data comes in. That should be the same behavior to .PAG whether the members exist or not -- Essbase doesn't create or rewrite to existing blocks until there's data.
Or is it possible that you're using Intelligent Calc and Essbase is only calculating the dirty blocks? That sort-of, kind-of makes sense although I have to wonder why the number of dirty blocks would be different between the two approaches.
Regards,
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I am looking at the JMS 1.1 Spec version 1.1 April 12, 2002.
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+Once-and-only-once message delivery, as described in this specification, has the important caveat that it does not cover message destruction due to message expiration or other administrative destruction criteria. It also does not cover loss due to resource restrictions. Configuration of adequate resources and processing power for JMS applications is the job of administrators, who must be aware of their JMS provider's reliability features."
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I'm using Oracle9iR2 DB and OWB 904. I have not much experience with OWB 904 yet and problems with creating the time dimension.
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2.) When I try to import the table function
TIMEDATA (IN VARCHAR2, IN NUMBER) return TABLE
from the runtime user schema into my design repository I get the error message: Argument Data type is not supported.
3.) I cant deploy the mapping TF_TIME_MAP.
Is it possible to use the table function from the demo to create a time dimension and to import it into my own project? My aim is to create a bean compliant time dimension and I want to know what I have to bear in mind to accomplish that. The OWB904UsersGuide didn't give me enough information, therefore I'm asking if you can help me out.
Thanks in advance,
Dirk

Dirk,
The way you should approach the time dimension is following:
- Run the SQL scripts into your target schema (you already did).
- Import the MDL file (you already did).
- Copy and paste the times dimension into your own project to be able to use it.
- Copy and paste the mapping you want to use to your own project.
- If necessary, modify the times dimension according to your needs; change the mapping accordingly.
- Open the mapping, do a right mouse click on the time dimension and select 'Reconcile inbound'. Select matching strategy to match by bound name.
We do not currently support the table function as an object in the metadata repository. I.e. if it exists at runtime then you can call it (as the time dimension load mappings do).
With the objects in the target schema you should be able to deploy the mapping.
Thanks,
Mark.

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Time dimension question

Hi,
I just created a time dimension from a table that contains all the info I need, Once processed, I went to the browser to finalise the viewing, I have a time period from 2009 to 2025 and once I expand the levels, I see a level unknown right under the
year 2025, the table I use for this dim is not missing any rows at all, all the columns I need are properly populated, no missing info at all.
What can cause that and how to suppress this unknown level
Thanks

Hi a,
Analysis Services has a built in member for each dimension called “Unknown.” This is to simplify the process of dealing with facts that have the property of Unknown for a particular dimension. If a dimension member comes to the
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Regards
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No offence meant.
I have added a jar file to the current project in its build path.
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If I remove the jar file from the build path and run the project,
it still executes that class file.
I tried building a clean project and running it,but still executes the jar file and the class.
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A question regarding eclipse.
No offence meant.People are not usually offended by Eclipse.
I have added a jar file to the current project in its
build path.
This executes the concerned class file which is in
the jar file.
If I remove the jar file from the build path and run
the project,
it still executes that class file.
I tried building a clean project and running it,but
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Hi,
Please help me with universe design question here.
I have to make line graph
Y- axis time dimension hh24:mi:ss
y - axis Date dimension YYYYMM
The data is like this
progname end_date
abcd 2011/01/23 13:01:20
abcd 2011/01/24 13:30:20
abcd 2011/01/25 13:34:20
abcd 2011/01/23 13:34:20
abcd 2011/01/25 13:45:20
abcd 2011/01/2614:34:20
I need to take time portion of each month and take average of it and that is printed on graph.
I just wonder how I get average of time. The tool seems like can not get average of time as this is not a number.
Then I converted time portion into seconds and did the average but my requirement is to show time on line graph not in seconds.
Please give some idea.
Thanks.

Hi Afzal,
I know how to segregate the date part and the time part. I just wonder how I get average of time. The tool seems like can not get average of time as this is not a number.
Then I converted time portion into seconds and did the average but my requirement is to show time on line graph not in seconds.
Please give some idea.
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Hi,
I went to tcode SOLAR_PROJECT_ADMIN and created a project called ZTEST. Internally there is a tab IMG project from where i created a project named ZTEST for development system.
Questions:
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2) IMG project created is what we are seeing in SPRO_ADMIN of solution manager .. is this right or is it the one creating in development system SPRO ?
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Murali.

Thanks for the reply.
So if understood correct, basically only one IMG project needs to be created that too for Dev System. Also this is the stage CTS project also got created is it correct ? which again means only one CTS project overall per SMI project.
One more question which i missed earlier:
A SMI project created with only Dev and QA in the landscape and some reqs has been assigned to it and may or may not imported some of them to QA also, later i created a Prod system and made the logical component to configure for the same and it got reflected in the SMI project also. But if i go to scheduler it is not showing the PRD system, is it something to be done manually ?
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Regards, Bob

Are you using OWB 11.1.0.7 or greater?
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Cheers,
Knut

Project Analytics application

Hi All,
Am trying to implement/configure the 'Oracle Business Intelligence Applications' and specifically interested in 'Project Analytics' package. Can anyone please tell me whether I need to be using Data-Warehousing techniques, as the release notes only specifies 'Configuration Guide for Informatica users' ?
Can anyone please pass on a good reference for me to proceed.
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Hi Karthic, the document you specifies is the correct guide for the configuration for OBIA. Follow the steps enumerated in the charpter 3 "Configuring Common Areas and Dimensions" and Charpter 15 "Configuring Oracle Project Analytics". Then, you need to create a execution plan that contains the proper subject area to extract projects information and run it.
Hope this could help you.
Regards.

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