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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Planning Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 28, 2018

Cell Annotation improvements - Add elements to }AnnotationMeasures to only show the comment

The way the comment is stored in the annotation cube is not ideal for any other purpose than the PAW and Perspectives comment functionality. The PAW functionality to annotate a cell is really great. The tag in PAW to identify comments in Explorer view is also great .
However when you directly access the comment from the annotation cube is messy as it contains the associated metadata (ie time, user name).

Both being able to display the comment and use the input functionality could be achieved be adding an element “comment” to the
}AnnotationMeasures dimension with a rule which strips out the rest of the annotation metadata and holds only the comment.
There also functionality to consolidate comments, eliminate comments which are immaterial at the roll up level and then display the official version of comments. To enable this level of sophistication the following enhancements are required:
1. Add functionality to the Annotation input to enable consolidation and copying and editing of comments from child and descendants levels. This will need the ability to sort and filter child and descendant comments by absolute value to select the most material information. And the ability to copy and edit the group of comments to produce the official commentary.
2. An additional element is required on the }Annotation_ApplicationID dimension to hold the official commentary.
3. In PAW it would be ideal to have the ability to show commentary by hovering over the comments tag as is possible in Excel.
Or switch on all comments to be viewed as is possible in Excel
  • Guest
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    Oct 28, 2021

    Hi Stuart,

    I think there is also an opportunity to use Watson AI to intelligently assess common annotation in child or descendant elements and potential summarise common annotation.

    The use case for the user at an roll-up cell to easy identify where there is comments in the descendent cells which provide insight into numbers (usually variances to plan) - eg a a Cost Centre Manager working on variance outside the allowable amount/percentage between actual and plan expenses account adds a comment. A General Manager working across multiple cost centres will get value from the underlying comments for the top 3 - 5 variances. Even better if Watson can analyse the comments for similarities and even summarise the underlying comments.


  • Admin
    Stuart King
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    Sep 2, 2020

    No plan to implement within the next 18 months. This is a good idea and we may revisited enhancements to annotation in the future.