OneStream Export Data to CSV File
There are cases when you want to give the user the ability to export data to a CSV file. Yes, many of the components have this ability built into them, however some like the SQL Table Editor may have paged data and the built-in export only exports the page of data you are on. Or perhaps the data you are going to export is not being displayed on the dashboard through a component. In this example a function is going to be run from a button push that will export dimension members to a CSV file. In this case this is more of an export of Metadata vs Data, however the process remains the same. Gather the data, load it to an array of Byte, then save it to the Application Database file folder structure.
To accomplish this I will be using the brapi.filesystem.InsertOrUpdateFile function.
brapi.FileSystem.InsertOrUpdateFile(si,XFfileData)
This function requires a couple of parameters which in turn will require a couple of other functions with several parameters each.
For the Dashboard Extender Business Rule.
Step 1 – Define the file path and name where the file will be exported to. I will be exporting it to the Application Database File folder under the folder for the user. Notice that I remove any spaces from the username as that is how the user folder is named by OneStream.
'Export File path and Name
Dim fileName As String = "CorpAccounts.csv"
Dim filePath As String = $"Documents/Users/{StringHelper.RemoveSystemCharacters(si.UserName,False,False)}"
Step 2 – Define the dimension to be exported. For demonstration purposes I have hardcoded it in the business rule.
'Dimension to be Exported
Dim accountDimPk as DimPk = BRApi.Finance.Dim.GetDimPk(si, "CorpAccounts")
Step 3 – Get all the descendants of the dimension and load them into a list.
'Get the descendants of the Dimension into a List
Dim listOfParents As list(Of memberinfo) = BRApi.Finance.Members.GetMembersUsingFilter(si, accountDimPk, "A#[Income Statement].descendants.Where(HasChildren = true)", False)
Step 4 – Loop through the list and add the list members to a string builder object.
'Loop through the list and append the members to a StringBuilder object
Dim csv As New Text.StringBuilder
For Each parentMember In listOfParents
For Each childMember in BRApi.Finance.Members.GetChildren(si, accountDimPk, parentMember.Member.MemberId)
csv.AppendLine($"""{childMember.name}"",""{childMember.Description}"",""{parentMember.member.name}""")
Next
Next
Step 5 – Convert the String Builder object to an Array of Byte.
'Convert String to array of byte
Dim fileBytes As Byte() = system.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(csv.toString)
Step 6 – Save the CSV file to the File System.
'Save csv to file
Dim XFfileDataInfo As New XFFileInfo(FileSystemLocation.ApplicationDatabase,fileName,filePath)
Dim XFfileData As New XFFile(XFfileDataInfo, String.Empty, fileBytes)
brapi.FileSystem.InsertOrUpdateFile(si, XFfileData)
The code in full.
Now to run the Business Rule
For this demonstration I will run it from a button on a dashboard.
Calling the Business Rule from the Button.
Which in this example will export the dimension members in my application from the CorpAccounts dimension.
Which will export the children of the CorpAccounts dimension to a CSV file and write the file to the Application Database/Users/vanderms folder. (vanderms being my username in this application).
The CSV File now contains the members in the dimension.
Helpful functionality, that although in this example if exporting dimension members, I have also used it to export Cube Data, custom relational table data, as well as any data you can load into a VB Data Table.
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