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Search results: Planning Analytics

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Format Attributes for Graph display of an element, colour (conditional) and fill

There needs to be new formatting attributes to control the way an element is displayed on a graph.For example1Format ColourIncome - Green;RedUsing the same approach as the current Format attribute the first item is a positive number, the second it...
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

export data as text from PAW

Hi there, I believe that there has been another idea that suggests having the Export ASCII data as text in PAX and I have voted on that. If PAX is not possible then what about having this functionality of EXPORT data as text from PAW? This is very...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Callout/Highlight (add to Canvas) to have conditional formating

Callout/highlight (add to canvas) requires conditional formatting (text/ background) to display eg1 Green for positive or Red for Negative, 2 Green, Amber, Red to show the impact Sorry I could not find a name to describe this function in the IBM d...
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Enable partitioning for .CUB and .FEEDER files

For very large (over 10GB) .cub and .feeder files, the time to load, save or process them could be substantially reduced were they partitioned and processed in parallel. For servers with 40 cores, the time savings can be significant. The obvious u...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Add Export feature to the the view created via Drill through

In order to export a view created via "drill through" process there are 2 steps are required: 1. Add to current sheet 2. Export Technically this works however it's sometimes confusing for a user who works with (or drills from) "maximized/expanded"...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Planning Analytics Workspace backup not returning error exit code

Problem Description It seems that the PAW backup.ps1 utility generates a success exit code (0) even when the backup fails. For example, if the PowerShell command is unable to complete a backup because its file size limitation has been reached, a...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Keep certain cells in PAW

In PAW exploration views can be filtered / changed by using the dimensions: Keep and Hide are used a lot. This works fine. What would still be an extra improvement is to add a Keep option in the grid with cells. For instance, I select 1 cell, righ...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Request to enable the clearance of asymmetric MDX views when data processing.

Asymmetric MDX represent the general case of a data set in PA, an Asymmetric view is typically delivered with and MDX filter. The ViewZeroOut function currently does not support the clearance of MDX views that contain a filter statement. The lack ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Financial Reporting Sign Formatting

Financial data which is sourced from a General Ledger typically requires the reversal of the accounting sign for the majority of management and statutory reporting. For example, Income accounts are held as negative values in the Ledger however the...
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Financial Reporting Sign Formatting

Financial data which is sourced from a General Ledger typically requires the reversal of the accounting sign for the majority of management and statutory reporting. For example, Income accounts are held as negative values in the Ledger however the...
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration