IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Blank Rows in Active Form Reports
Did you know when creating active form reports, you may sometimes want to separate sections? Some people like to create this separation via dashes or via bold line formatting. Some prefer to create “dummy” elements and use conditional formatting to make them…
September 17, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Preventative Maintenance to Maximize TM1 Performance
Did you know doing some preventative maintenance can maximize TM1 performance? How often do you do preventative maintenance? Probably not often enough. If you are like most TM1 admins, you probably have a list of urgent and vital projects you need to…
September 3, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Cellput vs CellIncrement
Did you know one of the most popular uses of TurboIntegrator is to load data into a cube? There are many different commands that can be used to load data depending on whether the data consists of numbers, strings or attributes. When…
August 27, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Errors in Non-writeable Cells
Did you know IBM Planning Analytics is smart enough to look at the write permissions of a cell before attempting to load values into a cube? Have you ever tried to run a load process and then receive errors stating that you…
August 20, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Clearing All Data from a Cube
Did you know there may be several situations during development where you may want to clear all of the data from a specific cube? This could be due to a new process to reload data, a second round of user testing, or…
August 13, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Financial Rules
Did you know one of the great things about Excel is that there are many built-in functions that calculate values associated with specific industries? One of these industries is the financial industry where Excel is sometimes used to calculate values associated with…
August 6, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: IFERROR
Did you know one of the great things about creating TM1 Web sheets is that you simply need to create an Excel sheet and then press a button called Publish? This will convert your Planning Analytics formulas into a web-based interface that…
July 30, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Rule Concepts that are often Forgotten
Did you know that rules are used in TM1 to perform live calculations without the need for any manual intervention or on-demand scripts? This is a very powerful aspect of Planning Analytics and, when used properly, increase the value of the tool…
July 23, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: How to Manipulate Case Used for Text
Did you know IBM Planning Analytics rules can be used to manipulate the case used for text? There are rules to change values into both uppercase and lowercase. UPPER Converts an entire string to upper case UPPER(‘Lee Lazarow wrote this’) becomes LEE…