Introduction to Views

Views give you instant access to data from your business transaction systems. They help you make knowledge-based decisions. Views consist of levels, members, and measure items. That data, presented in a grid format, can be configured numerous ways to suit your individual needs. Data can be:

• Organized along rows only, columns only, or both rows and columns.

• Compared across multiple points in time by way of time ranges that you assign to measure items.

• Presented in a single or multi-level format. The multi-level format is a helpful tool for quickly drilling through large volumes down to low levels of detail.

• Sorted or filtered, such as filtered to show a top or bottom count, percent, or sum.

• Presented with or without sub-totals, grand totals, and detail cell repeating values.

• Exported to Microsoft Excel or emailed via the grid or actions.

• Edited for planning purposes (only applies to planning enabled views).

You can re-configure views on-the-fly by drilling through levels, dragging and dropping objects to rearrange them, hiding or adding objects, and adding or editing sorts and filters.

Example View with Time Ranges

Here is a view with multiple levels on rows. Sub-totals and a grand total are displayed. Measure items with time ranges exist along the columns axis. The points in time specified for comparison are the current month of the current year and last year. The captions associated with the measure items tell you that as of this running of the view, those points in time are September of 2014 and 2013.

Example View with Time Hierarchies

Here is a view that uses time hierarchies on rows and columns, filtered to show only current year and last year data. The view presents you with yearly data by month.