IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Cleaning Up Your TM1 Environment
Did you know there are some simple steps you can take to clean up your TM1 environment? A quick clean up gives you easier navigations for ad-hoc analysis, as well as smaller dimensions. In today’s world, memory is cheap. Hard drives that…
July 17, 2018
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
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Three Reserved Local Variables in TurboIntegrator
This is a guest post from Revelwood's Jay Apwah. Did you know that there are reserved local variables that you can use in TurboIntegrator scripts? Reserved local variables are variables that do not need to be defined and are destroyed when the…
July 3, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: TM1 Web Writeback Protection
This is a guest post from Revelwood's Shane Bethea. Did you know that you can prevent data entry to TM1 in TM1 Web websheets? Here are a couple of different ways to do this. The first approach can be used for input…
June 26, 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: Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel (PAx) VBA API Calls
This is a guest post from Revelwood's Shane Bethea. Did you know IBM Planning Analytics lets you make API calls through VBA in Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel (PAx)? You probably know that action buttons can be used to refresh or rebuild…
June 19, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: How to Make Action Button Messages Dynamic
This is a guest post from Revelwood's Jay Apwah. Did you know that in Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel (PAx) and Perspectives you can customize action button messages? Well you can go one step further and make those messages dynamic. In this…
June 12, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Customizing PAW Directory Installation on Windows Server 2016
Did you know you can customize IBM Planning Analytics Workspace directory installation? It’s getting more and more common to have a small C:\ drive for booting and then having a separate drive to store data. This approach makes it easier to have…
June 5, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Impact of Consolidations in Feeder Statements
This is a guest post from Revelwood's Stephen Ellis. Did you know writing feeders in TM1 is one of the more difficult tasks for any developer? One of the questions I am asked most often is “How do I know if I’m…