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Question: In a Cube View heading, how can I include the last day of the month as the time description in a page caption (e.g., display "as at 30 September 2020" instead of "September 2020“)?

Answer Assuming that the date being shown is always the last day of the month and the client is using calendar months, it is possible to use XFBR string rule to call a function to get the number of days in the month. Source: Office Hours 2020-01-17 P...

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Question: How do I extract register data to Excel? The register has a lot of text fields and unstructured data that is not suitable for storage in a cube. How can I extract the register data for analysis in Excel, without the data going through a financial cube?

Answer Option 1 – Instead of using the register in specialty solutions, a ‘lighter’ option would be to use the data import staging area, where you can use attribute columns for text. This is set on the cube settings, where you can enable additional a...

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Question: If there is data in BI Blend tables, how do I track if there are changes in the BI Blend data from period to period in my workflows?

Answer Use the workflow type of “BI Blend, Workspace”. This way you can import/transform the data and then immediately afterwards use a dashboard to query review the data on each cycle. If the workflow tracking frequency is monthly then the a new BI ...

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Question: What is the best way to extract register data, specifically for Specialty Planning solutions? Users would like the option to press a button and download the register information and benefit from the formatting options that can be done with an Excel template.

Answer For the raw data, you can download as a CSV out-of-the box.However, the column order may not be the same as what was used in the Excel upload register template, and of course there is no formatting. Using an Extensibility rule, you could run a...

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Question: Is it possible to sort the product by the account data value “Sales” and have the product with the greatest sales first etc.?

Question (Cont) A Cube View was created which has a row defined as S#ACT “Actuals” and a Column defined as U1#Product.Children. An Advanced Chart was created with the Diagram Type = XY2D, Swap Axes set to True and Type is Bar Stacked. Otherwise, defa...

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Question: What’s the method to override the aggregation of a parent UD member when it is desired to have the UD parent be a calculation and not an aggregation.

Answer It is not possible to override the aggregation and store a different value in a parent because UD parents are not stored members. The only way to accomplish this is make the parent member a dynamic calculated member and define the calculation ...

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