1) What is UDA?

User Defined Attribute.

UDA's are used to select groups of members in the same dimension with some common factor, to allow
selection and analysis of the members tagged with the UDA. You might use UDA's to identify a group of
key markets that you want to see special reports on.

2) What are first three ways of constructing dimensions?
This question is related to Essbase anyway the there are 10 ways the first three ways are.
a)Generation References
b)LevelRefrences
c)Parent/Child Refrences
3) Is it possible to keep several databases in single application?
It is possible but recommend to use only single database.
4) How would you get the opening balance to a particular account using a rule (the balance is previous
year of previous month)
If you have for example a database 'MyDB' with a 3-dimensional cube 'Balance' containing the
dimensions Year ('2006' to '2009'), Period ('Jan' to 'Dec') and Descriptions (as described in your opening
post), you could set up the following rules:

# Opening balance for 'Jan' for 1st year in Year dimension is input field
['2006','Jan','Opening SL Balance'] = STET;

# Opening balance other years are retrieved from closing balance 'Dec' previous year
['Jan','Opening SL Balance'] = N:
PALO.DATA("MyDB","Balance",PALO.EPREV("MyDB","Year",!'Year),"Dec","Closing Balance")

# Opening balance other months are retrieved from closing balance previous month
['Opening SL Balance'] = N:
PALO.DATA("MyDB","Balance",!'Year',PALO.EPREV("MyDB","Period",!'Period'),"Closing Balance")

Please note that the use of PALO.EPREV assumes that the Year and Period dimensions are ordered
chronological.


5) The data is exported to smart view in excel but the cells are showing zeros what could be the reason?
Go to Excel sheet and connect to your application
Go to options button it will open window as below and change the options as required.


OTN Answer:
Perhaps user does not have access to account/entities in question. This would assume display
setting for #NOACCESS has been changed to 0.

Other option is that smartview file is corrupted.

Other possibility is that smartview/excel weirded out.

Make sure you close ALL instances or Excel and restart and try again.

Finally, if the file is rather large, it may be timing out, though I would expect an error message would
display.