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1. 31.▲
   by egeria_planning 8y ago

   It is a desktop only application at the moment. The mobile version will come later.
2. 32.▲
   by egeria_planning 8y ago

   I was just looking for a nice name, which is not used much on the web. :) Maybe the name will change later...
3. 33.▲
   by egeria_planning 8y ago

   From what I have heard of it: yes. I hope the formula language is also a bit better. AFAIK Improv could only have one formula per dimension element. Egeria allows formulas on any subspace inside the cube.
4. 34.▲
   by egeria_planning 8y ago

   A normal spreadsheet is considered 2D. You could probably call Excel 3D if you count the multiple worksheets, but thats it. You cannot add the forth dimension. Dimenional model is mostly used in the databases right now. I agree, it is a bit
5. 35.▲
   by egeria_planning 8y ago

   - I am not really familiar with Anaplan. You could probably compare them, but as far as I understand Anaplan is a more specialized (planning) tool. - Egeria is a database itself. I use Sqlite as a key value store for persistence now. I will
6. 36.▲
   by egeria_planning 8y ago

   The laptop screen is 2D, so you always see only one slice of the spreadsheet. You can choose which slice you see using the filters on the left.
7. 37.▲
   by egeria_planning 8y ago

   Multidimensional sheet is like a tensor (a multidimensional matrix). You have a cell for every coordinate combination of it's axis. You can imagine a 3-D sheet as a stack of 2-D sheets. You can also check this one out: https:/&#x
8. 38.▲
   Show HN: Egeria, a multidimensional spreadsheet for everybody(egeria.rocks)

   113 points by egeria_planning 8y ago|55 comments
9. 39.▲
   by egeria_planning 11y ago

   Thanks. Just fixed it. :)
10. 40.▲
    by egeria_planning 11y ago

    Thanks for testing. There are some misleading error messages. I will look into it. The problem was you did not "apply metadata" (from the tools menu) after creating a spreadsheet. If you have any ideas I would really like to simpl
11. 41.▲
    by egeria_planning 11y ago

    Thanks. This is my "side project".
12. 42.▲
    by egeria_planning 11y ago

    Thanks for a complete list. I was not sure I could legally use the names on my website.
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    by egeria_planning 11y ago

    Multidimensional means every cell of a worksheet is associated with multiple dimensions like year, month, company, currency and so on. This implementation is not really a ROLAP. Instead of a relational database I use a document database for
14. 44.▲
    by egeria_planning 11y ago

    Some demos show the user authorization concept. Logins and passwords are in the description of the demo under "Login information". Admin account is always: admin/pass.
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    Show HN: Egeria, a collaborative multidimensional web-based spreadsheet(egeria.rocks)

    31 points by egeria_planning 11y ago|25 comments