IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks

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…
April 17, 2018

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Making Default Cube Views Dynamic with MDX
This is a guest post by Revelwood's Jay Apwah. Did you know you can easily update a cube value to control the period elements that will display in a subset used in views? In this blog post, I detail a scenario why you…
April 10, 2018

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: TurboIntegrator Logging
Did you know you can easily control your logs, making them easier to navigate? Your TM1 server tracks data transactions made in the system. When a cube value is changed, TM1 records the change in a transaction log file named Tm1s.log. The…
April 3, 2018

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: False options within an IF statement
Did you know that there are three different ways to define the false section of an IF statement? The approach you choose will impact how the cell calculates a result. In this blog post, we discuss these options and when to use…