IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
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…
May 8, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: GMT vs Local Time
Did you know that TM1 offers an easy way for you to convert GMT times to local times? Do you get tired of seeing your message log records in GMT? Are you frustrated that you have to convert times from GMT to…
May 1, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Ensuring Cube Logging is Reset in TM1
This is a guest post from Revelwood's Susan Musselman. Did you know you can easily reset cube logging in TM1? A previous tech tip was written to discuss when to enable and disable logging. As stated in that posting, it is best practice…
April 24, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Captions
Did you know TM1 allows users to create alias names for elements within your model? This is a great approach that allows you to give different names to the same element. For example, account 601 can also be displayed in reports as…