
Visual Explorer is launched directly from the Essbase menu in Spreadsheet Add-in for Excel,
using the “Visualize & Explore” command. Using the technique of dragging interface elements,
Essbase users can quickly summarize and visualize data from an Essbase database. Visual
Explorer then offers users the option to pass data back to the Excel worksheet from which it was
launched, or to insert the data into a new Excel worksheet where additional analysis can be
performed.
Note:
For detailed information on using Visual Explorer, refer to the online help that is accessed from
the Help menu in Visual Explorer.
The following example uses Visual Explorer to identify quickly the most profitable product sales
by quarter in the Sample Basic database.
➤ To use Visual Explorer to identify the most profitable product sales by quarter:
1 Open a worksheet.
2 Select Essbase > Visualize & Explore.
The Visual Explorer interface is displayed.
3 Optional: If you are not already logged in to the Sample Basic database, you can log in from Visual Explorer
by completing the following tasks:
a. From Visual Explorer, select Data > Connect to Data.
b. In the Connect to Data dialog box, select Hyperion Essbase.
The Essbase System Login dialog box is displayed.
c. Select the server that you want to access from the Server list box.
If the server name that you want to connect to is not in the list, you can type in the name
of the server.
d. Press Tab to move to the Username text box and type your username.
e. Press Tab to move to the Password text box and type your password.
f. Click OK to connect to the server.
When your server connection is complete, a list of available Application and Database
pairs is displayed in the Application/Database list.
g. Double-click the application and database pair that you want to connect to in the
Application/Database list box. Alternatively, you select the application and database pair
and click OK.
h. In Name Connection, click OK to save the Server-Application-Database name of this
connection for future use.
You can also rename the connection to a name to a user-friendly name.
i. Click Yes at the prompt if you want to save the connection name.
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