Contributor Audit Reports
A common question of ep admins is: “How can I see all users currently logged into planning wrt applications they’re using?” Something like: “Steve is now editing Capex and Sales Planning, and Mary is...
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Ways of calculating Running Count to import data into Multi-Line models
I’ve nicked the term “Multi-Line” model out from some cognos best practices presentations. Never known it was called that way ) Multi-Line is only way to go when you have a potentially huge dimension...
View ArticleIncremental Administration Links
In 8.2 we’ve got incremental publishing, allowing us to create real-time reporting on contributor data and that sets up new frontier in model data transfer speed. Now the slowest part of models are...
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Cyclic calculations in Analyst or “Make yourself an own @SliceUpdate”
In the old times, before SliceUpdate first appeared ) we’ve thought that one thing analyst lacked to be really all-in-one tool was ability to do loops. For, while, until — all that nice stuff. And when...
View ArticleModeling transactions in Contributor
There are some situations when you definitely need some way of recognizing new input from user. These are rather rare occasions, but when it’s nice to have such a tool is sack. One of the applications...
View ArticleContributor transactional logic example
Finally, we’ve solved problem stated in communities. And Robert allowed me to publish resulting library here as well. See attached zip file. Problem statement We have 2 cubes, one containing product...
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Enterprise PLanning Objects Naming Convention.
As I’ve promised, here are naming conventions I tend to follow in EP projects. Setting up naming rules doesn’t seem so crucial at project start, but generally hits on you on the head on final phase,...
View ArticleMore on choosing Dimension for Publish
I already wrote some notes on choosing dimension for publish in this post. Today I just want to add some of points: 1 If you’re up to publishing some serious amount of data, variant with adding a dummy...
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TM1 + Enterprise Planning, When, Why and How?
This post will be some extracts from a recent PoC, where we made a complex planning system including a rich scenario modeling part. So it was our first big TM1 + EP integration experience. Some basic...
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Cognos 8 EP troubleshooting import data from package
Tip of the day: Having common metadata layer for BI and Enterprise Planning is really cool, especially with the ability to load data from BI packages to EP via links. Just that it sometimes doesn’t...
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