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Making evdre work in bpc 10
1. 5/30/2016 EVDREs Do Not Play Nicely with EPM 10
https://www.column5.com/blog/evdresdonotplaynicelywithepm10 13/19
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For those of you working EPM 10 and contemplating using EVDREs,
this blog should be of help to you and ideally save you time!
Background: A leading headphone manufacturer is deploying EPM
10 Microsoft to replace an Excel based solution of a ton of linked
spreadsheets; therefore, we are not replacing a legacy system, nor
upgrading from a previous version of BPC to have a clean slate.
Trying to be clever consultants, we decided to take the VBC APPSET
accelerator (BPC Version 7) and migrate the existing 24 templates
into EPM 10.
We tried to maximize efficiency and deliver customer value by not having to reinvent the wheel, but it doesn’t always
work out that way, and there is nothing wrong with that.
What we found is that EPM 10 does not really like, nor fully support EVDREs. In fact, it is our experience now that the
only reason to use an EVDRE in EPM 10 is if you have an existing set of reports to migrate, and the client does not want
them rewritten in EPM 10. You would still have to “retrofit” these we think. If there is a “greenfield” environment like with
this company, then we strongly recommend you avoid the use of EVDREs completely and use the native EPM 10
functionality.
Here’s what we found out (the hard way):
1You can’t even type =evdre() in Cell A1 and launch the wizard. We get the error message of “#ERR: Application Name
cannot be null” when trying to build a report the “oldschool way of Version 7”.
2The EVDRE Migration Tool basically breaks the Expansion tables. We tried this at various stages of conversion to
include finally getting the old EVDRE to work. We suspect we have not figured out how to use this in an appropriate use
case. If anyone knows, please comment!
3You have to handbuild the Options table and remove these options:
GroupExpansion
QueryEngine
QUERYVIEWNAME
SQLONLY
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