Creating an Application Calendar requires careful consideration before proceeding.
The Time dimension is used throughout the application for a variety of purposes and
it cannot be modified later without creating a new application, which deletes all the
data. However, extending the calendar or creating new calendar views do not require
a new application and can therefore be done without affecting existing data.
It is important to understand that an application can have only a single calendar,
so if the business must track different business processes with different calendars,
those processes will need to be separate applications. For example, sales and
marketing might operate on a standard calendar while finance may look at data using
a fiscal calendar with different beginning and ending dates.
A custom calendar can be defined for a Planning Business Modeler application
by using the Planning Business Modeler application calendar. To be consistent
and accurate, the application calendar must be created with great care. The steps
described below show how to create a calendar for our sample application. Click
on the Dimensions attribute in the Workspace Browser displayed in Figure 7-10
to open the Dimensions workspace within the Budget Model. On the right side of
the Dimension Browser is the Workspace Actions, which contains the Dimension
Tasks section. The second item under the dimension tasks is the link to Create the
Calendar, as shown in Figure 7-11.
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