Adventures in Groovy – Part 54: Collections Are Your Best Friend

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I received a number of questions when I attended KScope. A lot of people had a tough time wrapping their head around the fact that using Groovy could actually reduce cost and development time, and significantly decrease the effort to maintain an application. The feedback I get on my lightning lessons has been overwhelmingly positive. The basis of the concept of the use of Groovy making things simpler stems from understanding, using, and becoming confident using collections. I thought I would share some examples, use cases that you all use, and some samples to get those started. If you doubt Groovy can mean simpler and faster, I HOPE this will get you to at least think about coming over to the dark side and provide some perspective that will help.

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In the mean time, let me know what you think of having videos like this rather than traditional written content. If you would like to learn more about dynamic scripts for data maps, forms, and improving performance with Esssbase scripts by removing serial mode and threading the right way, head over to in2hyperion.podia.com. I have more lightening lessons ready for you to take advantage of!

 
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Adventures in Groovy – Part 52: And You Thought Essbase Only Stored Numbers

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My 20+ years of using Essbase I was told, and had no reason not to believe, only stored numbers. We obviously have lists and with Planning it appears we have text. If you aren’t familiar with how this works, the strings are stored in the Planning repository and the index is stored in Essbase. If you thought the same thing, you were as wrong as I was.

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Adventures in Groovy – Part 51: Dynamically Changing Storage Properties When Using Hybrid

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With hybrid being used more and more there is a need to manage the storage methods of different levels of sparse dimensions.  Whether it is a staggered hierarchy or not, getting the storage method from the source can sometimes be challenging.  More often times than not, you may want to own it on the Planning side so you can change it at will and not have to go through the typical IT change order process that may take weeks, or even months, to go through the full development cycle.

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Adventures in Groovy – Part 50: Incredibly Awesome New Methods

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Oracle has recently added 2 fantastic new methods that significantly improve our ability to minimize our scripts and reduce the effort to build and maintain them.  The first is a method in the EPMScript class called cscParams.  The second is in the cube class named executeEssbaseScript. Read more

 
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Adventures in Groovy – Part 49: Unable To Retrieve Variable Deployed In Application

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Have you ever gotten an error that reads, “Unable to retrieve variable variable name deployed in application?”  When you look at the error, the variable name in the error message doesn’t exist and you aren’t trying to retrieve such a variable?  Read more

 
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Adventures in Groovy – Part 48: KScope18 Presentations

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With Kscope19 quickly approaching, I wanted to remind you of the presentations from KScope18.  It was a great week and I hope to build on what was discussed next year.  I hope you find these valuable. Read more

 
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Adventures in Groovy – Part 47: Real World Wins, Part 1

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A specialty chemical products company created an ASO reporting cube in ePBCS.  This application housed detailed data that rolled up to a GL account.  The problem was the source didn’t always tie to the GL due to restatements, GL entries, and manual corrections.  Since they wanted the data to match to the book of record, but still have the level of reporting  at the detailed level, they wanted to load data from both systems, calculate the variance, and store that variance so users would see the difference between the two sources. Read more

 
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Adventures in Groovy – Part 46: Start Making Rules More Reusable, Part 1

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One thing that I have spent a lot of time on is making calculations independent of forms so that they can be used on any form.  For example, rather than hard coding a script to look at a form with one column header and one row header, I am now building things to be dynamic so that the POV, the rows, and columns all are read dynamically and identifying the edited cells is independent of the source it is looking at.  This will be a multi-post article because there is a lot to cover. Read more

 
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Adventures in Groovy – Part 45: Locking Cells On Load

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Often times, there is a need to lock cells from a user outside of the traditional dimensional security methods.  Maybe you don’t want to add dimensional security to accounts so your data push allows users to push data to another cube.  Or, maybe there is more complicated logic to identify who can and who can’t edit a cell.  The logic to do with is very simple. Read more

 
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Adventures in Groovy – Part 44: Don’t Waste User Time and System Resources

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Data forms that have rules on them run when a user saves a form, regardless of whether the form has edited data.  Sometimes this is by design, to let a user run a calculation.  But, most of the time, it is an accident.  There is no reason to use system resources and have the user wait for a calculation to finish when it doesn’t need to be executed. Read more

 
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