Many Hyperion Financial Management and Hyperion Enterprise applications contain Actuals at various rates, typically Actual, Budget and sometimes even Last Year rate. The background is that for management reporting purposes some companies prefer to compare actuals to budget or actuals to last year excluding the effect of exchange rates.

In the CXO-Cockpit, we have the Rate [RAT] dimension, which is typically used for this purpose. In order to set it up in a user friendly way, you need to do something extra. By default, if you put the rate dimension in the CXO-Cockpit and switch to e.g. Actualrate, then not only the Actuals, but also the Budget will be show at Actual rate. Since you only want to apply this dimension to the Actuals category, we recommend the following actions:

1. Map your data to specific rates

For example, to ActualRate (description: Actual Rate) and DefaultRate (description: Budget Rate)

2. Create a custom member CXO_ActualRate for the [RAT] dimension

WHEN

[CAT].[CAT].CurrentMember.Name='Actual'

Actuals and Budget rate for Hyperion
TypeCXO-Cockpit Tips and Tricks
AudienceWhat is the role of the CXO-Cockpit Administrator
DifficultyHigh
Applies toHyperion Enterprise & /wiki/spaces/CXO/pages/2806776953

THEN [RAT].[RAT].ActualRate

ELSE [RAT].[RAT].DefaultRate

END

Note that it is not necessary to create a custom member for the Budget rate if that is the default.

 

3. In the security, make sure that only the custom RAT member CXO_Actualrate and the Defaultrate are included in the Point of View.

We always recommend to put the default values, so in this case the DefaultRate first in the security order. Since this type of security will be applicable for all user groups, we recommend to put this type of security in a parent member group

4. Change the Dimension Alias of Ratio in /wiki/spaces/CXO/pages/2806776143 / Dimension Mapping to 'Actuals At'

Obviously, you can extend this example with Actuals at Last Year etc..