Planning Business
Modeler also facilitates security management for the models and data, creation of
business forms and reports, process workflow management, and association between
models. Planning Business Modeler runs locally on each users computer, but all the
models and schemas are centrally stored in the Planning Server.
When the Planning Business Modeler is opened for the first time, it opens up with
a blank environment. The first step is to connect to the computer that is running the
Planning Server. To establish a connection to the Planning Server, the developer
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would first click on Connect... from the File menu. This opens the Connect dialog
box. The name of the Planning server is entered in the Select a Server text box using
the format - http://
:46787/. In our example, this would be http://
PerfPointServer:46787//, as shown in Figure 7-9. After entering the Planning Server
connect string, clicking on the Connect button will connect the Planning Business
Modeler client tool to the Planning Server specified by the connect string. This will
also retrieve the list of applications and model sites stored in that Planning server.
As you may recall from the section on Planning Administration Console earlier in
this chapter, you have already created an application called Budget and a root model
site called Budget, as shown in Figure 7-3.
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