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Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks
Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks: Templates
This week’s Workday Adaptive Planning and Reporting Tip & Trick pertains to the useful and elusive template. Templates exist throughout the Adaptive Planning application to enable the upload of the important data utilized within. Whether you have a set of Actual GL…
August 12, 2020
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Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks: The Formula Assistant – How To, Where & Why
This week’s Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks post pertains to the ever-mysterious Formula Assistant, which is a "wizard" that exists throughout the application. It helps you create the even-more-mysterious and somewhat intriguing formulas themselves. Any clients attempting to create basic formulas such…
July 15, 2020
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Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks: Virtual Versions and Neutral Exchange Rate
Many companies with multiple currencies and exchange rates within the Adaptive Insights Planning instance require a methodology to compare the current year budget to the current year actuals while maintaining the exchange rate utilized to create the budget. This is sometimes referred…
June 3, 2020
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Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks: More on Accounts, Attributes & Levels
In this week’s Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks blog post, I am revisiting the article I authored that was published on April 1, 2020 (no fooling!). In that article I reviewed a question I have been asked multiple times over the last…
April 15, 2020
Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks
Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks: Hidden Effects of the New 2020R1 Release
This week’s Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks post from Revelwood came about as I was teaching Adaptive Reporting to a new(er) client on their instance. I always start my reporting class by reviewing all the reporting options on the “New Report” pull-down…
April 8, 2020
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Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks: Attributes, Accounts, Dimensions, Levels – What’s the Difference?
This week’s blog is about a question I have been asked multiple times over the last two years. It pertains to the cube sheet, and the difference between attributes, accounts, dimensions and levels in the way each enables, or disables, data entry…
April 1, 2020
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Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks: How to Remove Repetitive Total Rows
In today’s Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks blog post, I discuss how to remove from view the repetitive total rows which arise when dimensions are viewed in rows on a cube sheet. In a prior life, some of my students have had…
March 18, 2020
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Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks: General Ledger Root Accounts
My last few Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks blog posts have focused on capabilities of Adaptive Insights that are hidden and/or under utilized. In today’s Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks blog post, I discuss the importance of the General Ledger Root Accounts…
March 11, 2020
Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks
Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks: Overriding the Level Security on Matrix Reports
Adaptive Insights has many capabilities customers often are unaware of, and potentially have not utilized in their instance. Some options are “off-screen” requiring the user to scroll to display, and hence a valuable option remains unnoticed not utilized. This is my second…