Defining a New Process


To define a new Process, select Process Builder from the FinanceHub tool bar.



From within Process Builder select "New Process"



Complete the following information:


Process ID                        

A unique identifier of your choice for the process you are creating.  This will be used as the PR.ROW value within AW$PRCONTROL


Process Description                

A description for your new process


Program Name                

The name of either a MOOSERVER standard program such as MOO.AGGREGATE.CUBE (see the mooServer API) or a custom program of your own.


Analytic Workspace                

This is the name of the Oracle OLAP Analytic Workspace which the process will execute in.  Either the primary FinanceHub Server MOODATA AW, or and Sub-AW's you have created


Run Mode                

This is the mode your Process will run in.   Read Only process can be run in parallel mode, whilst Read Write processes will run in a serial as soon as possible based on the availability of the specified Analytic Workspace.


Standard Limits                

Any limits you want to apply to your data, prior to execution of the process.





Example of a Standard Limits to aggregate a cube.


The following is an example of Standard Limit using the MOO.AGGREGATE.CUBE program to aggregate a cube.


lmt cube.row to 'MY_CUBE'                                Tells the API which cube we want to aggregate.

lmt dim.row to 'ACCOUNT COST_CENTRE MY_TIME'    Tells the API which dimensions to aggregate over


call p.set.mycube.status                                Tells the API to call a custom program which sets my dimension value limits and hierarchy

lmt my_time to 'PAPR-12'                                Limits a dimension which I didn't want to set in my p.set.mycube.status program