FDMEE Tutorial: How to Load Periodic Data to HFM

Posted by Terry Ledet | Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) , | Oracle FDMEE ,

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One of the best practices of interfacing general ledger data to Hyperion

Financial Management (HFM) is the loading of data with a Year To Date (YTD)
View instead of Periodic. However, there are circumstances, such as a partial
year implementation of a ledger without history, that prevent this best
practice. At a client of a colleague this recently happened. When presented
with this requirement, my colleague checked the Import Format and Target
Application options, which did not have a View option. As a result, this blog
post presents the solution needed to load Periodic data to HFM utilizing
FDMEE.

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After I received the inquiry from my colleague, I also checked the same
options with the theory of two sets of eyes are better than one. Being
unsuccessful, I checked the latest version of the FDMEE Administrator guide
and found the DATAVIEW field in table, TDATASEG. The DATAVIEW is Hard
coded to YTD for file," which is how data was being loaded in this
circumstance. Based on this knowledge, a short event script was needed.

Before I display the script, this simple one-row data load displays the
business need to load data with a Periodic View instead of YTD based on the
ledger data received.
In this example, two hundred dollars was interfaced to an Income Statement
account in June of the current year. The first image is YTD and the second is
Periodic. Both images display two hundred dollars 200, as expected.
In the next example, two hundred and fifty dollars 250, which represents
the periodic value, was interfaced to July of the current year. The first image
is YTD and the second is Periodic. Based on a periodic value of 250, the
YTD value should be four hundred and fifty dollars 450 instead of 250.

To correct the data load, an event script to change the value in the DATAVIEW
field from YTD to Periodic prior to the export file being created is needed.
Time to open Eclipse, my editor of choice for Python, and type a few lines of
code displayed in the next image.
After the implementation of the script as a BefExportToDat event, the
interface was executed again. The first image after this paragraph reflects a
corrected YTD value of 450, and the second image reflects a remedied
periodic value of 250.