User manual BUSINESS OBJECTS PLANNING EXTENDED 5.3 RELEASE NOTES

[. . . ] 1-13 Hide the Show Data Entry Mode selector . 1-17 Workback Icons and Rollover Images . 1-18 Auto-Enable Visual Cues on Report Open . 1-19 Excel Add-in Integrated Windows Authentication . [. . . ] The menu item is enabled by default each time Web Analyst is started. The Data Entry Mode selector dialog is only displayed when this menu item is enabled. A Shortcut to Disabling An alternate way of disabling the Show Data Entry Mode selector menu item (and the display of the associated selector dialog) is to use the X widget in the top-right corner of the selector dialog the first time it is displayed. Once the dialog is dismissed using the X, it will no longer be displayed during the current session (or until manually re-enabled using the View menu item described earlier). Release Notes 15 2 Percentage-based Workback Percentage-based Workback Workback (previously called "Proration") is the ability to enter a value at a non-leaf level (i. e. at a summary level) and to have that number automatically allocated across a certain number of child cells, using some algorithm. For example, if you had a planned marketing budget of $200, 000 for ten products, you could have the total budget divided - for example, evenly - into $20, 000 for each of the ten products. Cross Scenario ­ weighted average based on the same cube coordinates in a different scenario. Distribute Evenly ­ equal division, recursively, at each level of the hierarchy. Leaf Based ­ equal division between all leaf cells. Fixed Rate ­ specified value placed in each leaf cell. Hierarchy Based · · Scenario Seeding · 18 Release Notes Auto-Enable Visual Cues on Report Open 2 Auto-Enable Visual Cues on Report Open Visual cues indicate which cells of a planning report are editable. A new property called Activate Visual Cues on Report Open has been added to the report template dialog. This new property can be specified at the report level and defaults to off. This setting only affects the initial state of the visual cues. Once the report is opened, the visual cues can be turned on or off, as usual. For existing report templates created prior to the addition of this feature, the property defaults to off, providing the familiar functionality. Release Notes 19 2 Excel Add-in Integrated Windows Authentication Excel Add-in Integrated Windows Authentication When Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) is on in Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS), the Excel Add-in login property Use my Windows login name and password can be enabled. Once enabled, this property disables the username, password, and domain fields and authenicates login using your Windows login information. Users can still manually enter their Excel Add-in login information by disabling the Use my Windows login name and password property. <server name> <user name> BusinessObjects 20 Release Notes Unified Authentication 2 Unified Authentication BusinessObjects Planning and BusinessObjects Planning Extended can now use unified authentication, saving users from having to be authenticated more than once. The following authentication types are supported: · · · Enterprise (secEnterprise) Windows Active Directory (secWinAD) LDAP (secLDAP) Enabling BusinessObjects Authentication User Accounts for BusinessObjects Planning Extended There are three parts to enabling BusinessObjects Authentication User Accounts (using the Site Security Configuration Tool) for BusinessObjects Planning Extended: · · · Enabling the BusinessObjects Authentication account type for the current BusinessObjects Planning Extended site Enabling the automatic creation of BusinessObjects Planning Extended users with BusinessObjects Authentication accounts Disabling the redirection to Login Servers Local Client Configuration Local clients (such as Administrator/Analyst, Script Executor, Site Monitor, and so on) use the shared planning. ini file to configure unified authentication: The minimum required settings in the shared Planning. ini are: [BOE Security] File= Section= The optional settings in the shared Planning. ini are: [BOE Security] Authentication= DefaultDomainName= Trace= Release Notes 21 2 Unified Authentication Parameter File Description Path to the web service(s) configuration file; relative to the folder of Planning. ini. There is no default value for this setting. Examples: File=WS-BOE. INI WS-BOE. INI is located in the same folder with Planning. ini. File=BOE\WS-BOE. INI Section WS-BOE. INI is located in the BOE subfolder of the folder with Planning. ini. Name of the section in the configuration file identified by File. The content of the section describes the web service that will be used to authenticate the users. There is no default value for this setting. Example: File=WS-BOE. INI Section=BOE-Security The local applications will read the settings from section [BOE-Security], configuration file WSBOE. INI, located in the same folder with Planning. ini. 22 Release Notes Unified Authentication 2 Parameter Authentication Description Comma-separated list of enabled BOE-specific authentication types. [. . . ] [Data Exchange] Data duplication when adding a dimension. [Finance] Reverse sign for Normalized view check box shouldn't be selected for Expenses line type. Line Item Detail shows problems posting when Compound Scenario present in Column Template. When Japanese fonts are used in a report section displayed as a chart, characters will be garbled. [. . . ]