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An application set consists of one or more applications. An application set stores all the data from each application. Each application contains the master data that controls the data in the application set. Applications can share one or more dimensions with other applications within the set.

Features

Adding New Application Sets

Administrators create new application sets by copying information from the ApShell application set provided with Planning and Consolidation. See New Application Sets and Application Set Status.

Viewing Application Set Statistics (applicable only to the Microsoft version of the system)

You can view the following application set statistics by selecting Show application set statistics in the Manage Application Sets action pane:

  • Real time, short term, and long term application storage count

    The storage count comes from the row count of each the table in the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio.

  • Cube processing status

  • Current application optimization status

  • Dimension processing status

Setting the Application Set Status

The application set status determines when and how users can log on and interact with the data in Interface for Office. See Application Set Status.

Setting the Template Version

If you have made changes to any of the dynamic templates for reports or schedules, you can force an update of template files by changing the template version. Therefore, clients that log on to the application set receive the new templates. You can set the template version by selecting an application set in the Admin Console, choosing Set template version from the Manage Application Sets action pane, incrementing the version number by 1, then choosing Update Template Version.

Refreshing Client-side Dimension Files

You can use the Refresh client-side dimension files option to ensure the properties of your dimension files are current.

Viewing User Activity (Applicable only to the NetWeaver version of the system)

Planning and Consolidation logs user and administrator behavior by recording information about each remote function call made from .NET to ABAP. You can view activity logs from the Manage Application Sets action pane.

Using E-Mail Notifications

Administrators can use the e-mail notification service from the Administration Console and the Getting Started page of Interface for the Web. The e-mail notification service allows administrators to send e-mails to users or teams defined in the system.

The appropriate SMTP parameters must be set up correctly. See Application Set Parameters.

Deleting application sets

You can delete application sets in the Admin Console by selecting the application set name at the top of the tree, selecting one or more application sets in the Delete application sets action pane, then choosing Delete Selected Application Sets.

Caution Caution

You can delete an application set when it contains data. You cannot, however, delete a dimension member when there is data associated to that member in an application.

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Additional Information (applicable only for the NetWeaver platform)

The following information is important when managing application sets on the NetWeaver platform of the system:

  • An application set is equivalent to an InfoArea within NetWeaver with nearly all unique objects within this InfoArea.

  • No objects are shared across application sets, except delivered properties such as scaling, formula, and so on. An InfoArea is like a folder, where in the case of an application set, it is much more delineated.

  • You can transport application set changes between development and production environments. For more information, see the operations guide on SAP Service Marketplace at http://service.sap.com/instguidesEPM-BPC.