IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks

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…
May 29, 2018

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Planning Analytics Workspace Chart Types
This is a guest post from Revelwood's Susan Musselman. Did you know charts and graphs are an excellent way to illustrate relationships in data and highlight trends in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace? They are visualizations of data that allow end users to…
May 22, 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: The Data Hold Feature in Planning Analytics Workspace
This is a guest post from Revelwood's Shane Bethea. Did you know that you can hold (e.g. lock) a data point in a view in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace simply by typing the word ‘hold’ into a cell? To do this, create…