Oracle Hyperion Financial Management Tips And Techniques

Naming Convention

So you are ready to start adding members to your application metadata. You should give some thought as to what to call them, as it could really save you some time and headaches later. When choosing a naming convention for metadata, I actually have a strong preference about this topic that I bring to every design session. Identify the most common or largest source of data for your chart of accounts, and use that for all base members. This does several things. It simplifies the mapping because you can use the “=” which, simply put, means everything in that dimension maps to everything with the same name. That is only one line of mapping, meaning there is less work that Financial Data Quality Management (FDM) or Oracle Data Integrator ...