Spreadsheet Add-in User's Guide for Excel

Related Documentation

When you licensed Hyperion Essbase, you received the following printed documentation:

• The Installation Guide, which shows you how to install and configure the Essbase server, Essbase Spreadsheet Add-in, Essbase Application Manager, Essbase SQL Interface, Essbase API, Runtime Client, and sample applications.
• The New Features booklet, which describes the new features that have been added for this release of Hyperion Essbase.

In addition to the printed documentation and this Spreadsheet Add-in User's Guide for Excel, you have access to the following online documentation:

• The Documentation Roadmap, which lists all the Essbase documentation and tells you how to access the online information.
• The Quick Path Card, which provides an overview of the tasks involved in creating, using, and maintaining Essbase databases.
• The online Database Administrator's Guide in the docs directory, which explains the architecture of Essbase, how to design databases, how to design calculations, how to set up Essbase security, how the database is stored, and how to optimize Essbase.
• The Application Manager Online Help file, which explains how to use the Application Manager user interface.
• The Technical Reference in the docs directory, which lists and describes Essbase functions, calculation commands, report commands, ESSCMD commands, and configuration file (.cfg file) settings.

The Spreadsheet Add-in User's Guide for Lotus 1-2-3Spreadsheet Add-in User's Guide for Excel, which explains how to use Essbase Spreadsheet Add-in features with Microsoft ExcelLotus 1-2-3. for Windows. This guide is provided in the \ibm\db2olap\docs\pdf directory in .PDF format for online viewing and printing in Adobe Acrobat Reader (Version 3.0.1 or later). Adobe Acrobat Reader is provided on the Essbase CD-ROM, and can also be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com.

• The Essbase Spreadsheet Add-in online help files, which explain how to use Essbase Spreadsheet Add-in, and provide all the spreadsheet macros and VBA functions.
• The API Reference, which lists and describes programmatic functions available through the Essbase API, and provides information to help you start programming with these functions.
• The Essbase SQL Interface Guide, which contains information on how to set up systems to load data by means of Essbase SQL Interface. This guide is provided in the \ibm\db2olap\docs\pdf directory in .PDF format for online viewing and printing in Adobe Acrobat Reader (Version 3.0.1 or later). Adobe Acrobat Reader is provided on the Essbase CD-ROM, and can also be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com.
• The Adminstration Services Online Help which you can access by launching Essbase Administration Services and clicking Help in the main menu.