IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Comparing Sandboxes
Many of you know that you can create personal what-if scenarios in IBM Planning Analytics via the sandbox feature. This approach allows you quickly replicate an entire environment which includes all of the data, rules, input templates, and reports from your existing…
July 14, 2020
Technical Bulletin: Earlier Security Change Impacting MDX Reverted
IBM is undoing a recent security change in the next release of IBM Planning Analytics. In late June we issued a technical bulletin about version 2.0.9 of Planning Analytics that changed the way MDX expressions are generated for dimensions that have security…
July 10, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Merge an Icon and a Button, Part 2
In an earlier post, I showed how to merge a button onto an image in IBM Planning Analytics to create an easy-to-navigate user experience. However, as a developer I may forget which images are just images and which images contain buttons. To…
July 7, 2020
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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Merge an Icon and a Button, Part 1
User experience is an important factor when designing any system. One of the most important aspects of the experience is the ease in which users can navigate from one page to another. In situations where an IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) book…
June 30, 2020
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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Excel’s FILTER Function
Have you ever wanted to filter a list of data to look at a subset of the entire table? Many of you know that you can use the filter button within Excel’s data section to do this. But what if you wanted…
June 23, 2020
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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: The Excel FORMULATEXT Function
Have you ever looked at a value on a report and wanted to know the formula that was used, even though you may not have access to the report? Have you ever wanted to easily include a formula as part of the…
June 16, 2020
Technical Bulletin: Security Change Impacts MDX
IBM has decided to revert the change in behavior that is described in this tech bulletin. The change will be made in version 2.0.9.2 and it is expected to be released by the end of July. For more information, please reference IBM's…
June 11, 2020
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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: The Excel DATE Function
Many of you already know about Excel’s DATE function. The function is used to create a date by defining specific values for the year, month and day. DATE(2020,7,20) gives a result of 7/20/2020. And some of you know that you can also…
June 9, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Using Words and Numbers Together
In an IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks video, I demonstrated the concept of using words to manipulate your views. This approach also applies to entering data. All of you know that you can enter data by typing a number into a…