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How to upload Flat Files to a Custom Table

Table Data Manager: OneStream has a Marketplace Solution, called Table Data Manager, which allows users to create custom tables where data can be loaded and updated. Table Data Manager has a feature t...

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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 ...

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BiViewer Parameters Demystified - pt 2

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...

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BiViewer Parameters Demystified - pt 1

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. ...

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So You Want to Learn VB.NET - pt.3

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...

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Historical Restatement, No Code Required!

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...

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How to build a Multi-Select TreeView

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...

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Introduction To Tree Views

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...

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How's your Week?

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Making sense of the Scenario settings

Many of us have been through the rigors of data validation at some point during a system implementation – and if you haven’t, lucky you. For the unlucky ones, you’ve likely encountered someone on your...

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