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Seasoned Pigmenteer
mmusabSeasoned Pigmenteer
asked in Questions & Conversations
Repeating set of values until the a certain condition

Hi TeamI have a calc which uses Year dimension and the year starts from 1 to 20. There is an assumption metric which defines what year the crops will be harvested. So lets say currently the assumption is year 6 in which the crops will be harvested, then from that year onward second rotation will start and then follow similar process until Year 6 where it again will be harvested and planted again.So as an example in excel, you can see from FY19 the year starts as 0 as that is where initial plantation happen. Then it counts from Year 1 to 6 and then at Year 6 which is equal to our assumption metric (Year 6) as well, it stops and then a new cycle starts from 0 to 6 all over again. How can we built something like this easy way? I have tried thinking of using MOD in which lets say in our Year dimension, we have count column as well that goes from 1 to 20 . So what i am doing is saying if Year.Count/Assumption metric =0, then mark it as harvest year.  Now how can i get it to count and reset

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Issam Moalla
Employee
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
ParapebuneNewly Minted Pigmenteer
asked in Questions & Conversations
How to create a weighted distribution

Hi!I have a sales volumes metric with dimensions Category, Channel, Product and Month.Data was imported from a transaction list.I want to adjust this with some volumes that are manually input by user per channel, but I want to spread this values on every product using the same weighted distribution per category and month as the initial data. For example, if on month Jun, on a product, the volume was 15% of the total, I want to add on that product for Jun 15% of the manually added volume.How do I achieve that?Thanks in advance!

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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
Moosa MalickNewly Minted Pigmenteer
asked in Questions & Conversations
Removing Blanks in Transactions List

Hi,Is there a way to remove blank cells in the grid of a transactions list. I am applying a filter to the transactions list which gives me blank rows which I want to get rid of. Thanks

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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
Moosa MalickNewly Minted Pigmenteer
asked in Questions & Conversations
Filtering a dimensions list based on another dimensions list.

Hi,Is it possible to filter a dimensions list based of another dimensions list e.g. if I want to just filter for Revenue, can I filter based on the classification field which comes from another dimensions list.

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Nathan
Employee
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Budding Pigmenteer
ELeff_AccBudding Pigmenteer
asked in Questions & Conversations
Compile Commentary from different tables

Does there exist a way to take the commentary (a metric of type text) from across two different tables? For instance, commentary about an Opex Expense related expense, for example Travel Expense (table 1) and Employee Expense (table 2).  Each table has a different set of metrics and each allows for text entry to supplement the expense to provide additional detail.  Downstream the request is to compile all expenses in a FPA view of all expenses entered across the company and then additionally to include the expense detail (text) with the relevant expense lines.  Bringing the data from the two different tables is no issue as we can use the “+” operand to include data from both tables.  This presents an issue when attempting the same with Text as the metric type of text does not accept Text as an arithmetic operand.  I attempted to utilize & but that did not align properly to the relevant line items being planned.  Curious if anyone else has come across this...

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Budding Pigmenteer
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Seasoned Pigmenteer
DastanSeasoned Pigmenteer
asked in Questions & Conversations
Dynamically Aggregate items in Chart views

 Hi Pigment friends, I wonder if there is a way to dynamically aggregate calculated values when using multiple items in a dimension? I am sure my question is confusing, so hence, I will give an example.We are presenting Average Contract Value (ACV) in each segment throughout the year on a monthly basis (we have 3 segments):Each node in the chart is the ACV and all segments are currently selected. The thing is, when we want to represent aggregated ACV with all segments, we need to create a separate chart: The downside of this chart is that we cannot dynamically add/combine/remove segments, because it will start summing them up, instead of showing ACV of combined segments. For instance, if I select Small customers ACV ($500) and Medium customers ACV ($1000), and we have 10 small customers and 5 medium customers, the average aggregated ACV should be: (10 * $500 + 5 * $1000) / (10 + 5) = $667. With aggregated chart, it will sum $500 and $1000 and show $1500 as total ACV, if Small and Mediu

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Seasoned Pigmenteer
Benji
BenjiPigment Academic
published in Company News
Pigment recognized in 2024 Gartner® Market Guide for Cloud Extended Planning and Analysis Solutions

“Gartner FP&A Leaders’ Priorities for 2023 found that 76% of FP&A leaders will integrate financial planning with other enterprise planning. This is one of the top priorities for FP&A leaders and is of similar importance to planning and sequencing finance transformation activities” leaders – “by 2025, more than 60% of planning solution initiatives will be driven by xP&A requirements.” Pigment has been recognized in the report as a Representative Vendor in Cloud Extended Planning and Analysis Solution Functionality. What’s in the Market Guide?An xP&A definition and market description: why it’s a priority for enterprises and how it differs from integrated financial planning Analysis of the market direction - where Gartner expects xP&A to go next Recommendations for application leaders to effectively utilize cloud xP&A Capabilities to consider when evaluating xP&A platform solutions A list of Representative Vendors Read the Market Guide Gartner, Market Guide

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Benji
Benji
BenjiPigment Academic
published in Career Forum
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Benji
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
ParapebuneNewly Minted Pigmenteer
asked in Questions & Conversations
Manual Input Board

Hi! I have a numeric metric of volumes of selling items with dimensions: item, channel, category, monthFor this metric I have some volumes imported from a transaction list. Apart of these volumes I want to use an input board which allows me to manually input extra volumes per item/channel/category/month which will finally add to the imported volumes.In the board, the input widget should show all the items that were manually input and should have the option to input a new volume based on the dimension selection.How do I  do that?Thanks in advance!

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Issam Moalla
Employee
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dariousKeen Learner
asked in Questions & Conversations
Calculating Adjusted Average by Month on various Dimensions

Hello Pigment Community!I hope this post finds you well. I'm currently working on enhancing my model's performance by calculating an adjusted average by month for deal completion times. While I've successfully calculated the average number of days for deal completion in a straightforward manner, I'm now facing challenges taking it to the next level. I'm reaching out to this community for assistance, and I would greatly appreciate your input and expertise.Current Solution:In my current approach, I utilize a transaction block named "All Deals," containing two columns - 'create date' and 'close date.' Using the 'DAYS' pigment function, I calculate the difference between these two dates. Then, using Excel I compute the 1st and 3rd quartiles using the excel function “QUARTILE.INC”. I then calculate the the Inter-quartile range (IQR), which I use to calculate the upper and lower bounds for my data. I then manually input the upper and lower bounds in my pigment solution to exclude outliers an

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Issam Moalla
Employee
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Seasoned Pigmenteer
JoseSeasoned Pigmenteer
asked in Questions & Conversations
Getting the seasonality for FORECAST_ETS function

Dears,I have the historic sales per month, and we have strong seasonality, but also and upward trend. I would like to use the FORECAST_ETS function, however, I don’t understand how to get the value of seasonality. For example I know every July and August we have a drop and then it gets higher on September. In this case the seasonality would be 12? If I want something more exact can I use Python and then get the equation and plug in pigment?  For calculating a better seasonality number, alpha, beta and gamma, is there a way to get those numbers in Pigment, or I need to have another application, such as Python or R? Thanks in advance! Jose

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Jurgen Maas
Budding Pigmenteer
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
Lester ChowNewly Minted Pigmenteer
posted in Questions & Conversations
How are you all doing budget transfers it doesn't seem to exist as a function

We can’t edit snapshots and scenarios always have a risk of changing if underlying metrics change. How do you all do budget transfers? ie. I need to move a headcount from marketing to finance, how would I do this? And I would want all the related headcount costs to move too in the snapshot.

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Jurgen Maas
Budding Pigmenteer
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
kristian.bartelNewly Minted Pigmenteer
asked in Questions & Conversations
Budget Scenario or Version?

Not sure if this exact topic shows up elsewhere, but after some digging, I was still interested in clarifying best practice for budgeting in Pigment (scenario vs. version). I found this in the responses of a similar post:  For versions vs scenarios, this is a hot topic. We are right at the moment where I would suggest to use scenarios. Knowing there is currently a constraint: one scenario cannot reference another via a formula (we are working on it though). besides that, it behaves mostly the same as using a standard dimension for versions, except that you can easily compare to snapshots (thus fixing your numbers). With my limited understanding it seems like scenarios are preferable in that they respond to changes in the model over time (i.e. if there’s a change in dimensionality in a metric, the new dimensionality is accessible through your budget scenario), and they are very visible when selecting “scenario” in pages or elsewhere. However, given that the nature of a budget is static,

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Jurgen Maas
Budding Pigmenteer
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dariousKeen Learner
asked in Questions & Conversations
Seeking Help for Calculating YoY Moving Average and Building Growth Hypothesis

Hi Pigment Community! I hope this message finds you well. I am currently working on building a table that will display my Year-over-Year(YoY) Moving Average(MA) of opportunities to customers. The ultimate goal is to use these calculations to create a growth hypothesis, which will then be employed for forecasting future opportunities and customers. I want to ensure that my YoY MA calculations are not only viewable at all levels of granularity but also correctly calculated for both granular and total values. I'm facing two main challenges that I'm seeking assistance with.Problem 1: Granular and Total Value Calculation I want to create a calculation that accurately computes both granular and total values without the aggregation issues I'm currently experiencing.Problem 2: Referencing YoY MA Values for Future Growth Hypothesis I aim to reference YoY MA values in future metrics for the growth hypothesis without being hindered by the limitations of calculated items and 'show value as' functi

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Budding Pigmenteer
PatMacBudding Pigmenteer
asked in Questions & Conversations
Value formatting in Charts

Is there a way to get rid of the decimals in the below chart without reverting to grid form first?  

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Benoit
Community Manager
Benji
BenjiPigment Academic
published in Career Forum
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Benji
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Seasoned Pigmenteer
AlexandreSeasoned Pigmenteer
asked in Questions & Conversations
How to compute a median ?

Hi,How can I do a median in Pigment ?Thanks

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Seasoned Pigmenteer
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
Antoine-2Newly Minted Pigmenteer
asked in Questions & Conversations
Implementing a Default Filter on board based on last month imported

Hello,I would like to create a default filter for a board that takes the last month into account based on data imported.Is it possible ? And if so, through what functionality?Thank you for your help.Have a nice day,Antoine

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Issam Moalla
Employee
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Just Arrived
Mart.Just Arrived
asked in Questions & Conversations
Creating a dimension list and transaction list

How do I create a dimension list (step by step process), How do we know what fields would be a dimension, for example, would a product type classified as text or dimension? or customer classification (New/Existing) be a text or dimension.Also, how does this feed to the transaction list, when importing a csv file.When the transaction list is then created, how do I create metrics, chart and tables from this transaction list.

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Nathan
Employee
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Budding Pigmenteer
connorsmithBudding Pigmenteer
asked in Questions & Conversations
Hide the Secondary Axis

Hello, is there a way to hide the secondary axis? I see that there is optionality to hide the left Y axis (screenshot 1), but I don’t see anything to hide the right Y axis. On my reporting boards, I notice that the right Y axis takes up a lot of space and forces the remainder of the valuable content to be squished (screenshot 2). I’d imagine that others would have this same problem?. 

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Andrea
Community Manager
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
PaylwardNewly Minted Pigmenteer
asked in Questions & Conversations
Build from Scratch Demo

Hello,  I am a new user with Pigment and am following the instructions in the Build from Scratch Demo lesson.  I have followed along up until we upload the transaction list.  When it is complete and I click on the transaction list title “MYERP” from the upload, there is no dimension data for Country, Region, Sub Region, Products and Date.  I see the units sold but that is about it.  I followed along with the video but am now getting blanks.  Can someone help with this error.

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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
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Seasoned Pigmenteer
Cedric LJSeasoned Pigmenteer
asked in Questions & Conversations
Restore a precedent version of a metric

Hi, I had a metric with some plug value inside (600 values), I wrongfully deleted them.Is there a way to restore the past version of the metric ?Thanks 

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Benoit
Community Manager
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
Antoine-2Newly Minted Pigmenteer
asked in Questions & Conversations
Creating Dynamic User-Defined Categories

Hello,I would like to know if it is possible, based on the value of a text metric, to create a dimension. The idea is that I have users who will enter requests and then group these requests by category. I do not know the list of these categories and each user will be able to create their own list. However, I would like users to be able to filter requests by category and add the category as a characteristic of the request. Thank you in advance for your help.Have a good day.Antoine

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Nathan
Employee
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
Antoine-2Newly Minted Pigmenteer
asked in Questions & Conversations
Merge 3 text metrics into One

Hello,I have 3 text-type metrics with the same dimensions, and I would like to combine these 3 metrics into a single text-type metric.In this new metric, I would like to add a category dimension to be assigned to each of the values from the original metrics.Please let me know if I'm not clear enough!!Thank you for your help :) A basic example below :   

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Issam Moalla
Employee
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
Antoine-2Newly Minted Pigmenteer
asked in Questions & Conversations
Filtering and Pivoting Monthly Data

Hello,I need help retrieving information for a metric of the monthly type. This metric consists of 3 dimensions (operation, cohort, month). I would like to retrieve in which cohort the operations are in December '23. And thus obtain a cohort type metric with the operation as its dimension.For exemple for this operation, I like to retrive the M+106 cohort. Thanks for your help.:) 

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Issam Moalla
Employee

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