IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: PAW Maps
IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) version 69 introduced a new map visualization for your charts. In addition to improving the identification of the geography elements, this new visualization introduces additional features such as … The ability to search for locations within the…
December 14, 2021

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Fill Function
Have you ever been in a situation where you need to add extra characters to a string in IBM Planning Analytics? Maybe you need ten characters, but the data source value only has seven characters. You can resolve this situation via the…
December 7, 2021

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
Questions on Virtual Hierarchies in IBM Planning Analytics
Virtual hierarchies in IBM Planning Analytics are not as well understood as you might suspect. We’ve found that many Planning Analytics users don’t understand what virtual hierarchies are, how to use them, and when to use them. We’re here to answer your…
November 30, 2021

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Displaying Percentages on a Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) Pie Chart
In a recent blog post we discussed pie charts and how you can show data points or percentages in an IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) pie chart. We also have an IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks video that shows how easy it is…
November 23, 2021

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: PAW Pie Percent or Value?
Pie charts are one of the most common types of data visualizations. A pie chart is defined as a component report, which means that it is design to show part-to whole relationships. This approach makes it easy to get a general sense of…
November 16, 2021

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: PAx Writeback Mode
As of version 2.0.68 of IBM Planning Analytics for Excel (PAx), a new toggle was added to the IBM Planning Analytics ribbon that allows users to decide how DBRW formulas are treated when data is entered. Prior to version 2.0.68, this option was…
November 9, 2021

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Using IF With a Counter
I recently worked with an IBM Planning Analytics client to optimize a model that uses a check value to determine when to do further calculations. The check typically resulted in either a one or a zero and a series of rules were written…
November 2, 2021

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: TM1Ellist
Have you ever wanted to use Excel to create a list of elements within an IBM Planning Analytics dimension? If so, the TM1ELLIST function is your answer! This function is used to return a list of elements with parameters to define the look of…
October 26, 2021

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Stacked Columns Dimension Order
Column charts are one of the most common types of data visualizations and stacked columns are simply an expansion of the columns. The stacking allows you to compare two sets of data within the same chart. But have you ever thought about how…