IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Navigate Back to the Source
Have you ever been in a situation where you are looking at an IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) view and quickly want to go back to that view? Did you know that PAW allows you to quickly navigate back to the source…
January 22, 2019

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: The Collect Feature in Planning Analytics Workspace
Did you know that you can easily copy Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) components across sheets or books? PAW allows you to use a feature called “Collect” that serves as the equivalent of copying. You can collect an item by selecting the item…
January 15, 2019

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Using Excel to get Client Information
Did you know that you can now easily define your client version of Planning Analytics via an Excel formula? There are many ways to determine your version of Planning Analytics. Some of these approaches include reviewing log files, right clicking on executable…
January 8, 2019

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Compatibility of Views and Subsets
Did you know that your parameters for VIEWCREATE and SUBSCREATE must be in sync? Earlier this year we wrote a blog post about a new parameter that can be used with both the VIEWCREATE function and the SUBSETCREATE function. This new parameter…
December 18, 2018

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Creating Buttons in Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW)
This is a guest post from Revelwood's Shane Bethea. Did you know there's an easy way to create buttons that allow your users to switch sheets in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW)? For example, you’ve created multiple sheets in a PAW book…
December 11, 2018

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Duplicating Sheets
This is a guest post from Revelwood's Shane Bethea. Did you know IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) has a new feature that lets you easily duplicate sheets? Have you ever created a template or dashboard in PAW and thought, “This is a…
December 4, 2018

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Setting Default Members
Did you know IBM Planning Analytics has a new function called “Default Members?" This is different from default subsets. Default members are what is used if you were to simply drag a dimension into a Planning Analytics for Excel (PAx) sheet or…
November 27, 2018

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Changes to Eight Planning Analytics Server Configuration Parameters
This is a guest post from Revelwood's Jay Apwah. Did you know that since IBM Planning Analytics was released on the cloud, there have been changes to IBM Planning Analytics server configuration parameters? New parameters have been introduced, existing ones have had…
November 20, 2018

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Synchronizing Selectors with Planning Analytics Workspace
Did you know that you can easily synchronize your selectors with your IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) components? PAW allows you to synchronize your widgets to a selector or set of selectors. This ensures that a change in your selected elements impacts…