Looking for Input: XFGetCell vs. Cube Views in Excel
Hi everyone, I’m looking to get some input from the community on Excel-based reporting in OneStream. In your experience, which format has proven to be more efficient and reliable: XFGetCell formulas or Cube View connections? The reason I’m asking is that we use OneStream reports to feed data into Excel workbooks, and we’re getting recurring feedback from users about performance issues—slow refresh times and, in some cases, Excel crashing. For context, these workbooks usually contain multiple tabs and often include a mix of: Cube View connections Quick Views XFGetCell formulas (used when a specific layout is required) Our goal is to better advise users on the best reporting approach. So far, it feels like this mixed setup is becoming heavy and is negatively impacting the user experience. If you have any best practices, lessons learned, or tips on what works best (and what to avoid), I’d really appreciate you sharing them. Thanks so much in advance! Eve
Page Breaks in Excel add-in
We are having an issue with users and page breaks in the excel add-in. Example 1: A user creates a cube view connection and pulls said cube view into an excel worksheet. The result, however, does not render all the rows. There is a page break and they are forced to page through to see the rest of the rows. If I replicate these actions, I do not get the same page break, my results render all the rows on a single page. No page breaks. We went through preferences and other excel settings together to make sure our settings matched. What is causing this to happen? What other things can we try to resolve? The user must have all the rows displayed at once (no page breaks). Example 2: A user creates a quickview only to have the results get cut off with a page break. If I replicate the quickview, the return does not cut off the rows. I get everything on the sheet. Any hints, tips, etc would be most appreciated. We are trying to determine if this is a OneStream issue? Microsoft Issue? Excel Settings? For reference, we are on OS 9.0.1. thank you in advance
CV Spreading
Hello, We want to spread data acrross multiple periods in a cube view, so we select the parent member (Year) and we expect that automatically OS applies spreading to all its base time members (months). However, we are working on a forecast scenario with the setting "Number of No Input Periods Per WF Unit" set to 4. And we don't understand how the spreading works. It seems the system calculates the difference between the amount entered at the parent member (Year) and the total amount of the closed months (the no input periods), and this calculated amount is the one that is saved at the parent member (Year), instead of the amount enetered initially. Could someone help us to clarify this calculation? Thanks!
Table view marks all numeric columns as dirty
Hello, I have a table view where I also allow users to save changes. In my code I'm checking for the cells that have changed using "If tvr.Item("Bonus").IsDirty()". This seems to work fine for non-numeric columns, however, I find that for the numeric columns the cells are always marked as dirty even if they are not changed. I tried different things, e.g. marking the column as decimal data type "tv.Columns(7).DataType = XFDataType.Decimal" but so far no luck. Do you have any advise how this can be solved? Thanks, Volker
Narrative Reporting Issue
Hello! Has someone tried Narrative reporting in 9.1 version? I am currently experiencing issues: 1.- Inserting charts/Advanced Charts / Reports if someone could insert an exaple on how they have done it. 2.- I cannot vie the artifacts and acces them, this message keeps popping up (and the names are fine) Thank you so much for the help!!
Excel Errors (V8.4.1)
Hi, A user is facing two issues with Excel add-in. XFGetCell and XFSetCell formulas with XFGetMemmber Property are used (XFGetMember function only at the top of the page). There are 15 sheets in the Workbook page. Has anyone experienced issues described below? What is the likely solution? Is it V8.4.1 specific issue? Thanks in advance for any help/pointers. Two issues: (1) Retrieval formula dont work and have to keep refreshing the whole workbook/worksheet. When refresh one worksheet, the rest will went error. When refresh another sheet, previous sheet went error. (2) When trying to save an offline version of retrieval file but error keeps pop up as attached.
Excel add-in V9: Not able to drilldown
We recently upgraded from V7.4 to V9.1 and we’re seeing an issue with the Excel Add-In. A small group of users (about five) are unable to use the Drilldown feature (the option is completely greyed out), while the rest of our users can access it without any issues. All users have been upgraded to the 9.1 Excel Add-In and every other function appears to be working correctly. Has anyone else run into this? Any ideas on how to fix it?
Display Parameters of Embedded Cube View
OneStream Community, I am having difficulty applying visible parameters after embedding a Cube View in Excel. When I embed the Cube View and select "Use Display Value" the parameters appear but the parameter member list drop down is misaligned to the applicable parameter. Additionally, when the Cube View connection is removed and re-embedded without selecting "Use Display Value" on refresh the cube view shows an object reference error, but then after selecting ok the cube view will render with no issue. Has anyone come across this?
