Have you ever created an exploration in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) and noticed the arrows at the beginning of your rows and columns? These are called thumb cells and are used as the equivalent of a “select all” button. For example, if I click on the down arrow at the top of my rows, then all elements in the rows will be highlighted.
Below is an example of a view with two thumb cells: a row thumb that I clicked on (note the arrow pointing down) and a column thumb that I did not click on (note the arrow pointing right).
Sometimes a thumb cell is great since it allows you to reference all of the elements in your exploration, but sometimes you may not want to see these additional gray boxes on the screen. PAW version 99 introduced formatting options to modify the appearance of the thumb cells.
Within the format manager, you can modify the thumb options in both the column header and row header settings.
Below is the same view with the row thumbs not showing and the column thumbs not showing the icon. You can see that that there is no longer a gray box above the rows and there is no longer an arrow icon to the left of the columns.
These formatting settings will allow you to customize the appearance of an exploration and, if preferred, eliminate boxes that may confuse your end users.
Revelwood is an IBM Gold Business Partner with 25+ years of experience designing, developing, implementing and maintaining IBM Planning Analytics environments. Revelwood has helped clients in all sizes across all industries optimize and grow their use of Planning Analytics. Revelwood’s Planning Analytics team consists of experienced PA experts, including a multi-year IBM Champion.
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