Creating applications

Infor d/EPM can be provisioned with or without the option to create custom applications. If the option is enabled, you can create applications and customize and extend them as you require.

These applications are identified, in the Applications dashboard, by the value Full in the Customization property.

You must have Create Application permission on the repository level to create applications.

  1. Select Dashboards > Applications Administration > Applications.
  2. Select Applications > Create Application.
  3. Specify a name and unique name for the application. Optionally, specify a description.
  4. Select one or more of these capabilities to enable:
    Dashboards
    Users can create dashboards and content connections.
    Reporting
    Users can create Application Studio reports.
    OLAP Database
    When you create an application that includes the OLAP a database with only the #TABACC cube is created. The OLAP and Relational Modeling and Office Integration capabilities are automatically included.. During the data integration process for the business applications, you use relational modeling to prepare, validate, and run queries that transfer data from a source system into an integration database.
    A data connection is created. The unique name of the application is used as the name of the OLAP database and cannot be changed. A data connection to the OLAP database is created.
    Office Integration
    Users can use the Excel Integration add-in to access Infor d/EPM data from within the Excel interface.
  5. Click OK.
  6. Click the Infor Ming.le tab in Details widget.
    In the Infor Cloud, you must add the application to the Infor Ming.le application launcher to be able to access the dashboards of a custom application,. The Infor Ming.le tab provides you with the fields that you need to fill when configuring the application in Infor Ming.le.

    You can access the reports of custom applications through a content connection from an already existing application.

    See "Adding applications to Infor Ming.le" for further information.

    If you need to create a link to the application in Infor Ming.le, instructions for completing the fields of the Add New Application widget in Infor Ming.le are provided on the Infor Ming.le tab in the Details widget.
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