cubeSavvy web-based Essbase grids: Beta 3 - double clicks

version 6.0.0 BETA 3 Highlights

• Implemented mouse actions, such as control button+double-clicking to zoom in and control+right double-clicking to zoom out. You have to press the control button (Ctrl on Windows) while double-clicking. This is necessary because plain double-clicking on a cell opens it for editing.
• The first iteration of member information and member selection has also been included for testing.
• Licensing. There is now a license.sec file under the conf directory. This file must be present, and valid, for cubeSavvy to start. For the beta, it allows 30 days of use for up to 10 users.

The member information screen is pretty similar to the ones in the classic add-in and Smart View:

The member selection screen is still a work-in-progress, but is functional. For example, the Search field currently only finds matches for members that are already displayed. It doesn't yet go back and search the database for other potential members that also match the entered criteria. That will be included in the next beta release. You might also wonder why the Alias column is showing Russian below. That is because the alias table chosen on the grid is RussianNames - you can see it in the background:

Since I've now implemented the licensing functionality, I've decided to open up the beta to everyone. Therefore, I've made the beta 3 version the main cubeSavvy download.

Please let me know what you think in the comments.

-Harry

cubeSavvy add-in: beta update - Submit Data implemented

I've implemented Submit Data functionality for the second beta version, to be released tomorrow.

It also incorporates the feedback I've received from the current beta testers. The most common item mentioned has been to increase the number of rows in a retrieve from the current 20,000 limitation. I'm glad to announce that there is no limit now, besides the one imposed by Provider Services. And, in keeping with my focus on speed, performance is excellent, exceeding that of both Smart View and the classic add-in for large retrieves.

I've also finished perfecting the Save Changes option, to allow changes made to the grid during ad-hoc retrieval operations to be saved:

If you'd like to test the beta, please let me know and I'll make it available to you. I'll be sending out an update to the current beta testers tomorrow.

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cubeSavvy - add-in: beta this weekend

Just a short post, since I'm currently spending all of my limited free time working on development.

I'm shooting for releasing the first beta version of the cubeSavvy web-based Essbase add-in to testers this weekend. As a reminder, this version will only have retrieval capability. Ability to save data will come in the next beta release. Speed has been the major focus, and compares favorably to Smart View, and in some cases exceeds that of the classic add-in.

Please send me an email if you'd like to help test.

In the meantime, here's another brief video demonstrating basic functionality:

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cubeSavvy - the big one

Yes, this has been the plan all along: I'm creating a web-based Essbase add-in. My first attempt was the ill-fated Google Sheets Essbase add-on. I say this not because it was somehow technically-inferior. But because IT Information Security departments across the planet had a collective heart attack at the mere thought of poking a hole in the corporate firewall for Google traffic. Even though many of them had already done the same thing for Oracle XYZ Cloud Service.

cubeSavvy avoids this problem completely, by running inside the corporate firewall. In the latest, de rigueur terminology, it is an internal/private/corporate cloud application.

cubeSavvy allows users to retrieve Essbase data from any browser, on any platform (Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix), without having to install anything on their computer. No Excel, no DLLs, XLAs, .Net. Nada. Although it doesn't require Excel, data can easily be copied and pasted to/from it.

Users can also save their retrieves and administrators can make them visible to other users. This captures the primary functionality that drew me to Google Sheets - the ability to share Essbase data pulls.

As you can see in the short video below, the basic functionality is already working. Additional functionality like member selection, member information, pivot, zooming in to various levels/generations, etc. will be added next. Afterwards, the ability to save (i.e. lock & send) data will be implemented. One of the final steps will be to support mouse functions, like double-clicking and right-clicking.

This version is not yet available for download, but will be coming within the next couple of weeks. Please send me an email if you'd like to participate in the beta program.

As the Grids structure in the video above shows, cubeSavvy already has the ability to create web-based grids using MDX queries and Report scripts. These grids can then be provisioned to users either with Shared Services groups or on a by-user basis:

Grids can also have Page member drop-downs to allow one grid to be used for entering data to multiple member combinations:

MDX and Report grids already have the ability to submit data. All data submissions, including the old value and new value, are also logged and reportable: