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Introduction to Hubble® Desktop

Hubble® is an integrated suite of performance management apps. It offers reporting, analytics and planning in a single, real-time solution that fully understands your ERP. Hubble® is built on a simple idea – that things should be easy. Hubble® integrates your critical business systems so end users at all levels of the organization have access to live data – extraordinarily fast. With this type of visibility, everyone can easily understand, manage and predict the business. Redundant processes disappear, and a high- performance business can emerge.

Viewer users can view and run inquiries created by other users, all in real-time, in order to make timely and better-informed decisions. While Viewer users have limited interactivity with the inquiries, they can filter the data in order to focus on specific information and drill down to other inquiries. Users can create print and export inquiries, as well as utilize quick access features like favorites and report packs.

User Interface

Hubble® adopts the most recent Windows-style interface, using a Ribbon Toolbar which is organized in menus by common functionality. The contents of the ribbon are contextual; they change according to the item you in which you are focused. The ribbon buttons are active when they are in color and grayed out when inactive.

  • Backstage: View Accessed by clicking the File menu, from this view you manage your documents
  • Menus: The different tabs across the top of the screen
  • Filters: Used to select the data on which to run the inquiry
  • QBE Line: An additional way to filter on data being returned in the inquiry
  • Inquiry Results: The results returned after running the inquiry
  • Status Bar: A customizable bar that displays at the bottom of the screen, showing specific details about the inquiry
  • Zoom Control: A control used to zoom in and out of the inquiry

Groups Within a Ribbon

Buttons on the ribbon are organized into groups according to function. In the example of the Home menu, the first group is the Documents group:

Backstage View

The Backstage view within Hubble includes the set of commands you use to do things to a document. Within this view, you manage your documents and see related data about them; you can create a new inquiry, open and close inquiries, output inquiry results, view permissions, and more.

To access the Backstage view, click on File:

  • Open - Open an existing inquiry
  • Open Form - Open an existing budgeting form
  • Close Inquiry - Close the currently-opened inquiry
  • PDF - Export the currently-opened inquiry to PDF format
  • Excel - Export the currently-opened inquiry to Microsoft Excel®
  • Show Properties - View properties for the currently-opened inquiry
  • About Hubble - (Display product information, role/responsibility)
  • User Preferences - (Set defaults)
    • Excel format
    • Color for Piano Lines
    • Localization Settings date and number format to override the Windows regional settings; JDE language setting
    • Change password
  • Exiting Backstage view - To quickly return to your inquiry from the Backstage view, click the arrow in the upper left corner or press ESC on your keyboard.