Log like a champ with OneStream
When I made the move to OneStream, one of the first things I understood and appreciated was logging. It is such a welcome change from legacy systems! You can easily log anything: text, the value of a ...
When I made the move to OneStream, one of the first things I understood and appreciated was logging. It is such a welcome change from legacy systems! You can easily log anything: text, the value of a ...
February 2024: An Early Spring Spring as sprung! As the days get longer, we at OneCommunity want to thank all our members for their activity in February. The Community continues to grow - and it's all...
In Part 1 of this short miniseries , we have seen how we can pass values from traditional Dashboard Parameters into Bi Viewer. But what about going the other way around, i.e. getting values from Bi Vi...
We know that OneStream users love BiViewer components. They look nice, are dynamic and interactive, and bring tons of baked-in functionality - ready to be leveraged with minimal effort and no coding. ...
In part 1 and part 2 of this series, we have seen how to handle VB.Net variables, call existing functions, and manipulate basic data-structures. This is enough to write simple scripts or member formul...
January 2024: A Busy Winter It's a fresh new year and winter has definitely set in. Yet despite the cold, things are heating up on OneCommunity. The cold weather might be keeping us inside, but it's c...
In today’s modern business world, a company’s organization structure can move more frequently than anticipated through changes like acquisitions, divestitures and mergers. The organization’s structure...
It's Time to Unwrap 2023! This past year was one of growth. There are so many different metrics to look at to determine the overall health of a community, including new posts, logins, views and even k...
Picture this: it's a bright, sunny morning, and you're spinning on your chair, enjoying the warmth of the sun on your face. Suddenly, your boss approaches you with an intriguing question: "Hey Om! Can...
Cheers to a Fantastic 2024! Let's raise a glass to the dawn of the New Year - a chance to refresh, renew, and revive. Or perhaps it's the time to draft a few well-meaning resolutions? Before we comple...
While building a Dashboard, you might have the need to provide a widget for the user to select a bunch of members at the same time. This can be achieved in a number of ways. If your requirements are s...
This post is an introduction to Tree Views in OneStream Dashboards, a type of widget that can render hierarchical data. Their complexity can vary, as you will see below, but once mastered they will be...
In this blog, we are going to discuss weekly reporting in OneStream and answer some frequently asked questions when considering how to handle weekly data in the system. Within the OneStream delivery t...
It's the Holiday Season! Here at the ONECommunity we wish you and yours a safe and wonderful holiday season. The New Year is right around the corner as 2023 winds down -- which means a special year in...
Any data loaded in OneStream has to be logged against an Account. Typically, the Account Type property of the account member will determine how the data is treated, but there are a number of other fac...
As we've seen in part 1, we can manage data in memory using individual variables. However, often you need to handle multiple elements in a similar manner: you might want to retrieve all base members u...
Pumpkin Spice Latte Season! As Autumn and pumpkin spice sweep across North America, we find ourselves entering the month of gratitude – which is the perfect time to look back on how far the OneCommuni...
Tired of opening your dashboard to find no pre-populated values? Frustrated when your combo boxes and list boxes don’t display a value upon runtime? This brief blog post will assist admins/super users...
Why You Should Care About Event Handlers? So, you're in the OneStream universe, and you might be thinking, "What's the big deal about Event Handlers?" Well, hold onto your hats because these aren't ju...
If you want to unlock the full potential of the OneStream platform, you want to learn a bit of VisualBasic.NET. Don't be scared! It's much easier than it looks. We'll now cover the basics (lol) of the...
Time for our Shining Stars! As the calendar turns, we find ourselves in the mysterious and magical month of October. It's spooky season! The forum is echoing with the lively chatter of our community, ...
"Hey boss, look a this Cube View I made - it shows our EUR Fx rates against all currencies in our app. Cool, uh?" "FX rates we loaded last month aren't cool. You know what's cool?" "... You?" "Real-ti...
How soon the summer ends and September rolls around. The languid heat of summer is over, and the crisp crack of newly sharpened pencils and the smell of strawberry highlighters fill the air as new rec...
Fall into our August Highlights! That's right -- we're falling into the next season: Autumn! With the changing of the leaves also comes the end of summer vacations and beach weather. Kids are back to ...
If you're currently grappling with consolidation performance issues or encountering slow-rendering Cube Views, fear not. We've got you covered with valuable insights on assessing your application and ...
SQL: cross and delight of the IT revolution. If you've been in the game for more than a few years, chances are that you got your hands dirty with database queries once or thrice. OneStream itself keep...
Have a cube view where the Member Expansions or Time Functions just don’t provide you with what you need? You have this report you need to build and you’re struggling to match the formatting that is p...
The second-hardest thing about writing a book is getting yourself to stop typing (the hardest thing, of course, is getting started). Particularly when the book in question covers a topic as broad and ...
It's August... the Last Month of Summer For our Northern Hemisphere folks, summer is starting to wind down already. For July, we saw a lot of new faces on the ONECommunity -- especially our most activ...
A colleague recently asked if I'd like to write about aspects of OneStream that I find interesting. As you can imagine, this took me a moment to think about, with all the different features and functi...