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Use the Administration section to create and maintain application groups, group permissions, model connections, system defaults, and application defaults.

Prerequisites

Someone with Create/Edit Contexts permissions has created a context. For more information, see Context Development.

You are running the Administrator as the strategy management administrator. If Administration is unavailable to you, it means you did not start the Administrator as the administrator. For information, see Administrative Roles and Permissions.

The Application Server administrator has created the dimensional model and added Application Server users to them.

System users and groups are populated in the application. For more information, see the Server Configuration Guide for SAP BusinessObjects Strategy Management.

Features

Administration of the application involves the following:

  • Creating and maintaining application groups. Group management involves setting up the application groups for all the users. Application groups define each user's experience in the Administrator and the application in terms of permissions, views, and accessibility. For information, see Application Group Development.

  • Create default Home page layouts by including panels containing the contents of files for different application groups.

    For information, see Home Page Configuration.

  • Creating and maintaining model connections to associate users with an Application Server user and an Application Server model. Model connections control which users can use which dimensional models. For example, two users may have access to the same model connection, but one user may be associated with an Application Server user name that allows access to one aspect of a dimensional model. The other Web authentication user may be associated with a different Application Server user name that allows access to a different aspect of the dimensional model. For information, see Model Connection Development.

  • Setting system defaults. Specify the user names designated as strategy management administrators. You also set caching options for the application including the cache directory location, whether to clear the cache, and whether to enable or disable the cache. For information, see System Defaults Selection.

  • Setting application defaults. Control whether links to views in the application are provided in email reports and operational reviews. Control the display of the Show All Initiatives (across Contexts) button in the Initiatives component. You can specify which language to send Entry and Approval email alerts. You can also specify whether to use 3 status levels or 5 status levels in the scorecard. Objectives, KPIs, perspectives, initiatives, and the scored context have the potential to display status indicators that are dark red, red, yellow, green, or dark green. If you select three, then those objects have the potential to display status indicators that are red, yellow, or green. All text boxes for entering values that determine the status indicators show three boxes if you select 3, or show five boxes if you select 5. You can also control whether the Scorecard Comparison subtab is available to users in the Scorecard component. For information, see Application Defaults Selection.

  • Updating user responsibilities. Change the responsible owner of objects from one owner to another. For information, see User Responsibility Updates.