Spreadsheet Add-in User's Guide for Excel

Document Structure

The main sections of this guide are structured as tutorials that take you step-by-step through basic and advanced tasks in Essbase Spreadsheet Add-in. This document contains the following information:

• "Introducing Release 6.5" provides information on migrating from previous versions of Essbase to Release 6.5 and lists all new features and enhancements.
• Introducing Essbase introduces you to basic concepts of retrieving and manipulating data through the spreadsheet interface.
• A Basic Essbase Tutorial provides a step-by-step tutorial of basic data navigation, ad hoc retrieval, and reporting techniques.
• An Advanced Essbase Tutorial describes advanced reporting and retrieval techniques for users that need special reports or formatted data views.
• Using Drill-Through provides a brief overview of the Essbase Integration Services drill-through product.
• The Index contains a list of terms and their page numbers. Select or look up an index entry to view the page to which the entry refers.

Note:

The Essbase Spreadsheet Add-in online help provides a comprehensive section on Essbase Spreadsheet Toolkit. This section enables you to customize and automate your use of Essbase by using Excel macros and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) functions. For more information on the Essbase Spreadsheet Add-in online help, see "Accessing Online Help".

The Spreadsheet Add-in User's Guide for Excel is provided in the ibm\db2olap\docs\pdf directory in .pdf format for online viewing and printing in Adobe Acrobat Reader (Release 3.0.1 or higher). The .pdf file is named essexcel.pdf. You can download Adobe Acrobat Reader from the Essbase CD-ROM or from http://www.adobe.com. On the Essbase CD-ROM, the Acrobat Reader executable file is located in the Adobe directory under the appropriate platform and language-version subdirectories. To install Adobe Acrobat Reader, launch the executable file, follow the prompts, and provide the information requested.