Changing Signs in OneStream
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...
Blog Articles
So You Want to Learn VB.NET - pt.2
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...
ONECommunity Highlights: October 2023. Plus a FLASHBACK to 2021!
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...
Stop confusion with empty parameters in Dashboards
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...
Unleashing the Power of OneStream Event Handlers: Enhancing User Experience and Efficiency
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...
So You Want to Learn VB.NET - pt.1
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...
ONECommunity Highlights: September 2023
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, ...
Cool CubeViews with Custom GetDataCell Functions
"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!
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...
ONECommunity Highlights: August 2023
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 ...
Unlocking the Power of Attributes in OneStream: Balancing Potential with Performance
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 ...
SELECT Like a Boss With Query Parameters
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...
A sneak peek into Dashboard XFBR Business Rules
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...
What in the World is a Sankey Diagram?!?!?
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 ...
ONECommunity Highlights: July 2023
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...
The Human Voice inside Automation
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...
Plant a Tree in your Member List!
The CPM world has traditionally allowed users to define custom lists of members in code, which is very useful when built-in expansions are not enough for their needs. This is a fairly rare occurrence ...
Map Component Tutorial
So you’ve bought the OneStream Advanced Reporting and Dashboards book - congratulations on being on your way to mastering these tools! The book is chocked full of examples and guidance on how to tailo...
ONECommunity Highlights: June 2023
It's Our Sixth Month Anniversary! Can you believe it? We have been posting the monthly highlight for an entire half a year already! Have you made the list of our most active users? Or perhaps you've p...
The OneStream Rainbow
It is the month of June, I wanted to pay homage to PRIDE month. When I think of PRIDE The image of the rainbow is a very clear one for me. The colours reflect the diversity of communities and the rang...
ONECommunity Highlights: May 2023
It’s Just About Summer! The summer solstice for the Northern Hemisphere is right around the corner. We hope everyone has been enjoying some time outdoors and that you’ve made time to take well deserve...
Cultured Numbers, or: How To Avoid Problems With International Users
The year is 2038; following the event known as The Global Souffle Incident, on 15 July the entire world population woke up speaking nothing but French. Mon dieu! OneStream gurus the world over were sw...
ONECommunity Highlights: April 2023
Happy May! Have you noticed all the changes around the ONECommunity? We hope you’ve liked them! Did we mention we got new graphics for our monthly highlights?! Special thanks (again) to our internal d...
ONECommunity Highlights: March2023
It's April! It's Spring! Time flies! That's a wrap on March and Q1 of 2023. What's new? Well we've got stunning new graphics for our monthly highlights and we hope you love them as much as we do. Spec...
Can complex transformation rules be written without using code?
Mapping can be complex. Here’s an example and a solution to minimize the writing of business rules and use the out-of-the-box OneStream functionality to maintain them.The data source provided is simpl...
ONECommunity Highlights: February 2023
Happy March! As we get ready for Spring, let’s take a look at the shortest month of 2023, February. Just like last month, we will spotlight the top engaged forum posts of the month as well as our most...
Can a member have two or more different Account Types?
Have you run into the situation where a customer has a KPI or statistical account that they want OneStream to dynamically calculate for one Scenario Type and users to enter for another? If you’ve work...
Transformation Rules Using Movie Titles Using Mask and One-to-One
In Certification Corner we try and bring different type of examples to help educate about OneStream functions. In this series of articles, we will identify the order of operations of the Transformatio...
ONECommunity Highlights: January 2023
Happy February! As we look back on the first month of 2023, we want to share ONECommunity Highlights with you. Every month we will spotlight the top engaged forum posts of the month as well as our mos...
The Dutiful Dead, or: A Tale Of Mixed DataSets
It's Friday afternoon, and you are already tasting a metaphorical daiquiri. Suddenly, the phone rings: it's your boss! Are you getting a pay rise? Did he finally agree to send you to Splash on expense...
