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While working with Groovy scripts, a common task is to dynamically generate an Essbase calc script capturing the edited members from the grid. This script should then be submitted to Essbase for execution. But the important task is to ensure these edited members when passed on to the Calc script are written in required Essbase format, enclosed in quotes. In past we have been using various groovy methodologies to identify unique members and converting them to Essbase format concatenating with quotes, commas and spaces. How about if all of this can be done in one step my enclosing the entire collection in a method which spits out strings, enclosed in quotes and separated with commas ? Yes that’s what cscParams do for us. Let’s look at the above script example, in Step 1, I declare an empty list and push the edited accounts from the COA dimension into the list. Step 2 and 3 define two ways of converting this list into a string which I can use either dynamically generate a Calc script or p...

Though this feature came in last year and I have been a bit late in writing about, I thought it would be still worth making a record of the same to help me (and others if people are reading) to make use of the same. T he update to EPBCS (though it no longer is PBCS or EPBCS, let’s just stick to it to symbolise it as availability of Groovy) , Oracle had made its Groovy features more powerful by adding an ability to interact with external web services. What this means is, we can now do HTTP GET or POST with external webservices. If you like to know more about the methods, you can check W3School . In Groovy API, we have Get(), Post(), Delete() and Put(), which do majority of the tasks. A very basic example would be the ability to update FX rates into our application in an automated way. Usually this is one of the forecast preparation tasks for finance users to ensure FX rates are updated and they might be crunching these rates manually to put in an average or current value. I will be usin...