Annotations

Speaking of collaborative functionality that helps users communicate and improve data quality, HFM and the reporting tools support Annotations. Annotations are a tool that allows users of reports to make comments on the reports, from simple notations to full-fledged threaded discussions. If you know Hyperion Enterprise, think Data Extend on growth hormone and steroids. It is very cool.

This is a great tool. You can get people to get a jump on commentary, add notes, and do some other commentary that you could not do easily in HFM before. There is full support of annotations in Books, and read-only support of annotations in snapshot reports.

They are easy to find. From the Workspace View menu, you control the display of annotations ...

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