Application Profile

When you are ready to create your application and build hierarchies, you need to create a shell for the members to load into. If you are building these members in a Classic application, you will be using the desktop application. If you plan to build these using EPMA, then you should identify only common members to use from the master library, and build other parts separately.

When first defining your application, you need to define some parameters that cannot be changed unless you rebuild the application. You should not plan to rebuild the application for some time, so you should consider something that you can live with. That does not mean you need to plan to live with this forever. There are times when a rebuild makes sense. This book will cover those cases in the support section, but just know these are not parameters you will be updating and changing without some effort. They are Aliases (Formerly Languages), Calendars, View, and Period.