Adding Supporting Detail

Data source types: Oracle Hyperion Planning

Use Supporting Details to specify how detail items aggregate to cell values in a form.

Watch this overview video to get acquainted with some basic Oracle Smart View for Office functionality related to Planning, including adding supporting detail.

Overview video

To add supporting detail that calculates values in a form or ad hoc grid:

Open a form or ad hoc grid, and then select the cells.

You can select one cell or a range of contiguous cells in a row or column. The section cannot include a combination of rows and columns. Select cells that are in the local currency so that you can write to them.
From the Planning ribbon or Planning Ad Hoc ribbon, select Cell Actions and then Supporting Detail.

The Supporting Detail window reflects your cell selection.
Enter a description over the initial “untitled” text.

The text and its associated operator must be unique among children of the same parent. By default, you can enter up to 1,500 characters.
Use the buttons to create or change the indented hierarchy to reflect the desired structure and calculations.

For example, click Add Child to add a line item directly below the selected item.

Set the mathematical relationships among the line items by selecting an operator for each of them.

Select from these operators:

Operator	Function
+	Add
-	Subtract
*	Multiply
/	Divide
~	Ignore

Enter data to set or calculate.

Enter numbers using the same scaling that was set up for the form.
Click Submit.

Values are dynamically calculated and aggregated before the data is submitted. Data on the form is also submitted.