Understand PDC Workspace

In the Portfolio Data Center, the workspace is the area where portfolio data is displayed and edited. Each workspace has an associated ribbon with action buttons that allows you to view and manage data. Workspaces are grouped into top two-levels: Portfolio Desk and Setup

The following table lists the two top-level menus available in the workspace.

Workspace

Description

Workspace

Description

Portfolio Desk

This top-level workspace is the Analyst Activity Center. It includes a summary pane to view the entities. It includes the following workspace:

  • All: Lists all the available entities in the system. You can also create and manage entities.

  • Portfolios: Lists only the Portfolio entities. You can also create and manage Portfolio entities.

  • Composite: Lists only the Composite entities. You can also create and manage Composite entities.

  • Indices: Lists only the Indices entities. You can also create and manage Indices entities.

  • Static & Dynamic Lists: Lists only the Static & Dynamic list entities. You can also create and manage Static & Dynamic list entities.

  • Mutual Fund: Lists only the Mutual Fund entities. You can also create and manage Mutual Fund entities.

  • Enrichment: Allows you to create enrichment rules for the fields. The Eagle Enrichment workspace allows you to build customized financial data that enables you to better understand and manage portfolio exposure and risk.

  • Reconciliations: Allows you to gain visibility and control by providing real-time matching, reconciliation, and exception processing. You can also analyze the data at the entity level, allowing you to drill down into individual transactions.

  • Monitor: Allows you to monitor PDC processes and events in Automation Center.

  • Accounting Portfolio Rules: Allows you to setup portfolio rules for the Accounting module.

  • Accounting Portfolio Setup: Allows you to setup entities and funds for Accounting module.

Setup

This top-level workspace is the workflow component configuration area. It includes the following workspaces:

  • Policies (workflow templates): Allows you to create and manage policies.

  • Field Groups: Allows you to create and manage field groups for policies.

  • Validations: Allows you to create and manage validations for fields.

  • Errors: Allows you to create and manage errors for validations.

  • Metadata: Allows you to define metadata elements.

    • Codes: Allows you to create and manage codes for field values. Code values are discrete lists of approved field values organized by code category.

    • Date Rules: Allows you to create manage Date Rules. Date rules determine the date (or date range) that filters data used for an associated process. 

    • Direct and Derived Fields: Allows you to create and manage direct and derived field attributes.

    • Inventory of Tables/Fields: Allows you to create and manage new tables and fields in the database.

    • Portfolio Data Field Settings: Allows you to configure PDC specific parameters for the fields. 

    • Sources: Allows you to create and manage sources for data.

  • Entity Tab Configuration: Allows you to create and manage entity tabs. Entity data tabs provide view-only access to financial and analytics data within the entity details.

  • Policy Types: Allows you to create and manage custom policy types.

  • Disclosures: Allows you to create and manage disclosures. A disclosure is a statement that provides additional information about an entity, such as the basis of a calculation.

  • System Settings: Displays all the available system settings that customize Portfolio Data Center and engine behavior.

  • Asset Mix policy and Fee Schedule: Allows you to create and manage asset mix policy and fee schedules.

  • Issuer to Entity Relationship: Allows you to define relationship between issuer and entity.


Across the top of Portfolio Data Center window are the application title bar, the Eagle navigator button, and the ribbon. To the left of the workspace, running vertically is the left navigation. Running horizontally at the bottom of the window are the workspace tabs, notification bar, process status, and application version details.

In the middle of all these elements is the workspace area. In PDC, the workspace is divided into three sections; the Search Detail pane, the Entity Summary pane, and the Exceptions pane.

For additional information on managing workspace searches, navigating in Eagle, and using the ribbon, see Getting Started with Eagle.

Understand the Ribbon

The ribbon provides you with a set of tools organized under tabs. By default, the Portfolio Data Center opens with Summary workspace with Home tab enabled. 

Tabs and options become active in the context of activity on the screen. Icons on the ribbon are dimmed when the function is not operational.

Home Tab 

Home Tab in Portfolio Data Center

The following table describes the common options that are found under the Home tab.

Group

Option

Action

Group

Option

Action

Manage



 





Create New

Creates a new entity by offering you a selection of enabled policies to choose from.

Edit

Edits entity detail information.

Duplicate

Duplicates an entity.

View

Displays entity detail information.

Actions





 

Submit Build

Enables you to submit an Entity Build for processing. Entity builds are used to build dynamic and/or custom composites and indices used for downstream reporting and performance.

Release Exception

Releases an exception.

Authorize

Authorizes an exception.

Bulk Update

Allows you to do bulk updates for Field Overrides, Release Exceptions, Authorizations, Benchmark Assignments, and Peer Groups Assignments.

Overrides



Released Exceptions

Lists all the released exceptions (from the Actions/Release Exception button) and enables you to modify them.

Data Overrides

Lists all manual changes (overrides) associated with an entity and enables you to modify the changes.

Audit

Audit

Lists manual changes made to entities.

Reports

Reports

Generates operational reports that you can print and export.

Notes

Attach/Comment

Attaches comments and documents to entities for a specific date or date range.

Distribution



Export

Exports the data displayed in the workspace to an Excel or CSV file.

Print

Prints the data displayed in the workspace.

Clipboard





Cut

Allows you to remove a selected item from the workspace.

Copy

Allows you to select an item in the workspace and copy it to the clipboard.

Paste

Allows you to paste an item you copied into the workspace.

Tools



 

Search

Allows you to search, view recent entities searches and save search criteria for reuse.

Find

Enables you to find data in the workspace.

Compare

Allows you to compare multiple entities side-by-side (including field attributes & benchmark assignments). You can also save the compare criteria for reuse.

Refresh

Refresh Screen

Refreshes the results in the workspace.

Grid Tab

Data is displayed in an Eagle workspace in a table of rows and columns called as grid. You can customize how data is presented in each workspace by using the Grid tab.


The following table describes the common options that are found under the Grid tab.

Group

Option

Action

Group

Option

Action

Columns







Columns

Hides and enables columns in the grid.

Freeze Columns

Allows you to pin the first column or the selected column fixed to the grid while scrolling through the remaining data columns.

Unfreeze Panes

Unlocks all columns, enabling you to scroll through the data.

Fit to

Enables you to resize the column width to fit the size of the header or the data.

Grouping









Group by

Groups the grid by a column.

Ungroup

Ungroups all columns.

Show Group by Pane

Allows you to view groups by pane.

Expand All

Allows you to expand all rows in the grid.

Collapse All

Allows you to collapse all rows in the grid.

Sort and Filter









Ascending

Allows you to sort data in ascending order.

Descending

Allows you to sort data in descending order.

Custom

Allows you to create multiple custom sorts for the grid.

Custom Filter

Allows you to create custom filters for the grid.

Clear Filters

Allows you to create custom filters for the grid.

View

Show

Displays row numbers and vertical gridlines.

Find

Find

Allows you to find data in the workspace.

Refresh

Refresh

Refreshes the results in the workspace.

Settings

Restore Defaults

Clears custom settings that were applied to the grid.

The Portfolio Desk Workspace

The Portfolio Desk workspace is the main work area in Portfolio Data Center where you view or modify data. You use the Summary workspace to filter, search, and display summary views of entities of any type. You can review the following data:

  • Outstanding exceptions

  • Pending authorizations

  • Processing status

  • Release level

You also can perform the following tasks:

  • Attach documents and comments

  • Audit manual overrides/changes

  • Create new entities

  • Edit overrides

  • Generate reports

The Portfolio Desk workspace is divided into two sections:

  • Search Detail pane 

  • Summary workspace

Search Detail Pane

The Search Detail pane of the Portfolio Desk enables you to define search criteria for viewing entities. The View By list enables you to determine the type of information to display in the Summary workspace. To specify which type of information to display, select one of the following options:

View By options

Option

Description

Option

Description

All

Displays all the available entities information in the Entities pane and all the exceptions that are available in the Exceptions pane as of a given date.


The Entity pane displays the core information about the entities depending on the fields that have been configured to include in the grid. You can use this option to search for a specific entity (or group of entities) in order to perform entity-specific analysis. When you select (highlight) an entity, the system displays the corresponding exceptions (if available) for the entity in the Exception pane.

Exceptions

Displays the exclusive list of exceptions by error message.

In this case, the Exception pane appears first. You can use this control to determine the outstanding exceptions as of a given date. When you select (highlight) an exception in the Upper grid, the system displays the corresponding entities having those exceptions in the Entity pane.

By default, the Search Detail pane is displayed in collapsed view mode. Click the chevron  at the far right corner of the title bar to expand the section. The Search Detail pane allows you to perform the following actions:

  • To create a new search criteria

  • To rerun the last search criteria

  • To run any saved searches

  • To enable an option that would prevent the Search grid from auto-closing after executing a search criteria.

Summary Workspace

The Summary workspace lists the entity information based on the search criteria. The Summary workspace is divided into two sections:

  • Entity pane

  • Exception pane

Entity Pane

The Entity pane details the entity information in grid format. You can add additional columns to create a custom view. This is achieved using the System Settings configuration in the Setup workspace. You can temporarily reorder the grid columns using drag and drop. You can also group the grid, by dragging and dropping a column into the grouping area.

You can change the default column order using the Column button in Grid tab. 

The following table lists the default fields that are displayed in the Entity grid.

Column

Description

Column

Description

Effective Date

Specifies the most recent effective date of the entity

Entity ID

Specifies the unique internal identifier of the entity.

Engine Status

Specifies the status of the engine processing for history records.

Rules Entity Name

Specifies the name of the entity.

Entity Type

Specifies the type of entity.

Release Level

Specifies the status (or) fit-for-purpose level of the entity. Portfolio Data Center derives the release level, which varies according to the number and type of validations that have passed or failed. You also can configure the number of release levels. The field displays among the following values:

  • Not Released (Level 0)
    The entity has one or more exceptions at level 0.

  • Released for Level 1 Activity
    The entity has passed all Level 1 edit checks. 

  • Released for Level 2 Activity
    The entity has passed all Level 1 and Level 2 edit checks.

  • Released for Level 3 Activity
    The entity has passed all Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 edit checks and is eligible for use by downstream systems.

Account Policy

Specifies the policy that governs the entity.

Needs Authorization

Indicates whether the entity has pending authorizations for release.

Has Rejections

Indicates the authorization status of the entity, i.e., whether the entity has any rejected authorizations

Entity Inception Date

Specifies the date the entity was created in the marketplace. Eagle's Performance solution uses this information. You cannot edit this field after you create the entity.

Entity Base Currency

Specifies the base currency for the entity.

Entity Fiscal End Date

Specifies the last date of the entity's fiscal year, which the system uses as the ending date range when adding accounting periods.

Sector Type

Specifies the sector to which the entity belongs to. This is only applicable in the case of Mutual funds.

Entity Update User

Specifies the name of the user who has created/last updated it.

Entity Update Date

Specifies the created/last modified date of the entity.

The 'i' before the field name indicates that the field is an internal field.

Exceptions Pane

The lower section of the Summary workspace displays the entities that the PDC engine has processed and which contains failed validations and pending authorizations. When you highlight a particular entity in the Entity pane, the system displays the exceptions associated with the selected entity in the Exceptions pane. In the title bar, the total number of exception records that are available for the entity is displayed.

The following table lists the default fields that are displayed in the Exception grid.

Column 

Description

Column 

Description

Field

Displays the name of the field for which failed validations/pending authorizations has occurred.

Code

Displays the error code of the validation.

Effective Date

Specifies the effective date for which the error has occurred.

Status

Provides the status of the exception.

Severity

Indicates the severity level of the exception:

  • Warning

  • Critical

Error

Displays the validation error description.

Business Description

Displays the business description provided for the error.

Resolution

Provides the solution to the error.

Assigned To

Provides the name of the Business group to which the exception/authorization is assigned to.