IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Creating Buttons for TurboIntegrator Scripts
In today’s IBM Planning Analytics video tutorial, our FP&A Technical Director, Lee Lazarow, shows you how to easily create buttons for TurboIntegrator (TI) scripts. When you create buttons for your TI scripts, you simplify tasks for your end users and create a…
January 14, 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: The New Planning Analytics Admin Approach
In our latest IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks video, Lee Lazarow, Revelwood’s FP&A Technology Director, shows you a new, single location in Planning Analytics where you can perform all your administrative tasks. This saves Planning Analytics admins time and simplifies your…
December 17, 2019
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: Simplifying Dimension Maintenance
Watch our latest IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks video to learn how to simplify dimension maintenance in Planning Analytics. Once you master these easy techniques, you’ll be able to do all of your dimension maintenance from the Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW)…
November 19, 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…
November 12, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Learn How to Use the Pivoting and Selecting Shortcut
Our latest IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks tutorial video explains how and why you should use the pivoting and selecting shortcut. In this short video, Revelwood’s FP&A Technology Director, Lee Lazarow, demonstrates how to pivot in exploration and select an element…