IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Admin Server Recycle
In your existing TM1 world, much of the administration is done via your computer’s operating system. Planning Analytics brings much of the administration into your environment via a web-based interface. This blog post explains how to do server recycle through the new…
March 24, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks Video: The Hold Feature
Today’s IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks video focuses on the new hold feature in Planning Analytics. Watch the video and you’ll see our Director of FP&A Technology, Lee Lazarow, demonstrate how to use the hold feature, which gives you the ability…
March 17, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Admin Critical Alerts
In your existing TM1 world, much of the administration is done via your computer’s operating system. Planning Analytics brings a great deal of the administration into your environment via a web-based interface. One of the tasks you can do in this interface…
March 10, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Admin Alerts
In your existing TM1 world, much of the administration is done via your computer’s operating system. Planning Analytics brings much of the administration into your environment via a web-based interface. One of the tasks you can do in this interface is to…
February 25, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Regions within Regions
A while back I wrote a blog post about using Regions within Planning Analytics rules. Regions allow you to make your rules easier to navigate and read when scrolling through many lines of code. But did you know that you can have…
January 7, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Rule Timestamps
TM1’s print report wizard still exists in Perspectives and many clients continue to use this approach. I recently came across an issue where a client wanted to “burst” a report and include a time stamp on a report that is being snapshot…
December 10, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Learn the Excel CELL Formula
Excel is, and always will be, a powerful tool for the financial team. With so much power, there are many great Excel formulas that rarely get used. I recently had a situation where I wanted to easily replicate a sheet and have…
December 3, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Trimming Picklists
Did you know that IBM Planning Analytics includes a feature that helps trim the list of choices in a picklist as you type? There are many different ways to create picklists in TM1/Planning Analytics and Revelwood has previously written about creating picklist…
November 26, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: PAx Control Objects
IBM Planning Analytics uses cubes to store metadata information such as security and attribute information. These automatically generated cubes are called control cubes (which I sometimes call “squiggle cubes”) and begin with a prefix of a right curly brace. Server Explorer used…