IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Year-to-Date Hierarchies
Did you know you can create a single hierarchy that contains all year-to-date values within an entire year? As you know, TM1 is a consolidation tool which is designed to sum together a series of values. There are many ways to create…
July 10, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
Top 5 IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
Every week we publish a new blog post on IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks. Some of these focus on how to use new features in IBM Planning Analytics and others explain how to optimize key aspects of the core TM1 engine.…
June 25, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Regions with Planning Analytics Rules
Did you know that comments are an important piece of good rule development in IBM Planning Analytics? Comments help to describe your logic and can make it easier to navigate through many lines of code. A special type of comment in Planning…
May 15, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: GMT vs Local Time
Did you know that TM1 offers an easy way for you to convert GMT times to local times? Do you get tired of seeing your message log records in GMT? Are you frustrated that you have to convert times from GMT to…
May 1, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Captions
Did you know TM1 allows users to create alias names for elements within your model? This is a great approach that allows you to give different names to the same element. For example, account 601 can also be displayed in reports as…
April 17, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: TurboIntegrator Logging
Did you know you can easily control your logs, making them easier to navigate? Your TM1 server tracks data transactions made in the system. When a cube value is changed, TM1 records the change in a transaction log file named Tm1s.log. The…
April 3, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: False options within an IF statement
Did you know that there are three different ways to define the false section of an IF statement? The approach you choose will impact how the cell calculates a result. In this blog post, we discuss these options and when to use…
March 27, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Displaying Data in Maps
Did you know you can easily visualize data with IBM Planning Analytics Workspace? IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) allows you to visualize your data using a variety of charts and graphs, including the ability to display your results via a map. The…
January 3, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Visualizing Data into Pie Charts
Did you know IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) allows you to visualize your data using a variety of charts and graphs, including the ability to display your results via a pie chart? In order to create a pie chart, you must follow…