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CHAPTER 4

Creating Analytic Model Definitions

This chapter provides overviews of the analytic model definition creation process and the conventions for naming

analytic models and parts and discusses how to:

• Create a new analytic model definition.

• Open an analytic model definition.

• Create organizers.

• Enter notes for an analytic model definition’s parts.

• Find parts.

• Validate analytic models.

Understanding the Analytic Model Definition Creation Process

You create analytic model definitions to define the rules that are used to calculate application data in the

PeopleSoft Analytic Calculation Engine. This section provides a high-level discussion of the steps for

creating a new analytic model definition assuming that you already have record structures on which to base

your analytic model.

To create an analytic model:

1. Create a new analytic model definition.

See C

hapter 4, “Creating Analytic Model Defi nitions,” Creating a New Analytic Model Definition,

page 29.

2. Perform these tasks in whatever order is appropriate to your own development n eeds:

• Create the analytic model definition’s dimensions.

See C

hapter 6 , “Creating Dimensions,” page 47.

• Create the analytic model definition’s data cubes and set the properties of the data cubes.

Consider the kinds of information that the end user should analyze. These kinds of information

should be your data cubes.

See C

hapter 5 , “Creating Data Cubes,” page 31.