Design and deploy an application

You can create and edit more than one application at a time, and you can create more than one type of application.

To build an application, you must have a valid cube.

In the Application Design pane, define the application type and views to be included in your application. You can also view and set properties for your application, views, and application type. The major steps in creating an application are described in the following list:

Defining the application type
Defining the views and websheets
Defining the approval hierarchy
Defining the rights

You can create the following application types:

Approval: A representation of the approval or reporting structure of your business, department, or enterprise. The hierarchical approval type aids the user with the workflow.
Central: No approval hierarchy; used by a small group of users who equally share the task of performing central planning or analysis. Taking ownership is an option, not enforced as in the other application types. Modelers can also prevent the option to take ownership from being offered.
Responsibility: Based on approval hierarchy, but the user cannot submit a node to lock it. For use by customers that use rolling forecasts or continuous planning processes where there is no defined end date.