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Dear Pigment Community,I hope your week is starting off well! I am Regina, on the Product Marketing and Analyst Relations team and I wanted to share with you something we’re working on. We are currently participating in Dresner Advisory Services Wisdom of the Crowds EPM market study, to help them create a holistic view of the EPM market. We would be hugely appreciative if you participated in their end-user survey to share your Pigment experience.If you’re up for helping us, please take five minutes to share your experience with Pigment, by Friday, March 31, 2023. You only need to complete the sections relevant to you, and you can skip areas which aren’t applicable. As a thank you for your time, Dresner will send you a complimentary copy of its research findings once the research is published this summer.

Hi Team,I was trying to view “Build collaborative sales planning and forecasting models” webinar on community but it seems like i donot have access to view it as i am unable to see any link which can run the webinar for me. Kindly help me with the issue 

Hello,It there a way to retrieve the User name from “User” ?Thanks 

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Hello,I am trying to create a metric that shows the month tenure by employee in a cohort, with the cohorts in rows and the month cohort dimension in columns (i.e. M+1, M+2, M+3, etc.). For example, an employee who arrived in May 22 is part of the May 22 cohort and if he leaves in September 22 it would put a 1 in the column "M+4" for the row "May 22".I have an “Employee” dimension with a property for the cohort (for example May 22) and a property for the number of months of employment (for example M+4).Could you please help me to build in the best way the described metric?I hope my request is clear enough!Thanks! 😊

Hi! Hoping some of you can share some best practices for mapping a metric’s results (for example, a forecast metric of revenue with dimension Month) to a chart of accounts (for example, account 4000: Revenue). I know I could use lots of IF statements on a metric that has dimensions Month and IS_Accounts, but that seems fragile? I haven’t seen another way to directly associate a metric’s result to a chart of accounts line though. Any advice? Thanks!

Hello,Is it possible to block the expand option in the board access rights ?ThanksAdèle

Hi Pigment Team,We are trying to format Dimension Property, but it is getting unselected automatically. Please resolve this bug as soon as possible. Recorded video link is given below for your immediate reference. OneDrive (live.com)

Hi everyone! I’m using a Versions Dimension to allow for Actual + Forecast monthly planning. 1+11, 2+10, 3+9, etc. For metrics with manual inputs, I’m wondering if there’s a way to have the formula statement be:If the prior month is defined, default to that value. Otherwise, default to the prior version. The idea would be that as I change versions, my inputs would carry to the next one. However, if in a later version I change the input for a month, that new input would propagate across all the future months in that version. I tried a few versions of an IF statement using ISDEFINED, etc. but no luck. Thanks!

Hi everyone, I’m wondering if there’s a way to update the Aggregator label. For example, if I add an aggregator AVERAGE, the additional row added still says “Total”. It would be helpful if it would show “Total Average” or just “Average” depending on what aggregator option I’ve selected.

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Hey everyone, I have a transaction list of revenue by month by User ID. My User ID dimension has the property “Employer”. My Employer dimension has the property “Parent Company”. I want to create a metric with dimensions Months and Parent Company to sum the revenue from my transaction list. How do I chain the dimension properties in the by sum statement? I need to go from User ID > Employer > Parent Company across multiple dimension lists. Thanks!  

We had removed Scenarios from the Pages in some blocks (because we weren’t utilizing them yet) and now we can’t find an option to add Scenarios back to Page in the Pivot. We can add them as columns/rows, but the Pivot interface doesn’t allow us to move Scenarios to Pages only. How can we get Scenarios back in our blocks as only a Page selector?

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Is there any way to auto refresh the data connection from Pigment to Google Sheets on a daily basis? 

Hi everyone!I have to remodel our Budget application because a lot of our processes have changed since we built it with the Pigment team 😊Can you please share with me your best practices for building such applications?I am especially wondering about the use of scenarios, versions, switchover date, etc.We usually do a budget once a year and then review it with a forecast at least once every quarter. Should I create 2 separate applications for this purpose? Can I condense all the information in one application?Thanks for your help!

I am trying to say that if this property on this dimension list is blank, then just insert me an item from another dimension list.But I get this and I tried to change the property type but it still gives me the same error message: “Expressions are incompatible and cannot all be converted to Text”

Hello,I want to compare Jan 23 vs Jan 22, Feb 23 vs Feb 22, etc until Dec 23 vs Dec 22 with Calculated Item but from what I see, I have to do it manually (12 times for each Month) to do it.Is there an automatic method to do it on every months ?Here is a picture of what I want : Thank you for your help :)Alexandre

Hi everyone! I didn’t find a discussion on this: What are best practices for updating your actuals monthly and maintaining the historical data? Do you just add new data to the same transaction list and it expands over time? Do you at some point consolidate historical data? Thanks

Hi Community - I've noticed that if we have a multiple properties of an existing dimension mapped to a single dimension I'm unable to pivot the data multiple ways.Is there a setting or adjustment that can be made so both can be displayed or is this a new request for the Product team.Example: We have a global account id called Global ID and we have proerties mapped to it related to the different product cohorts of that customer (Global_Cohort ,  Product1_Cohort, Product2_Cohort, Product3_Cohort ) which are all aligned to a single dimension Cohort_Months . When pivoting my data or adding it as a page selector I can only choose one of them and then am unable to choose another even though the Product1_Cohort is a different value vs Product2_Cohort. So if I want to show a matrix of this data I cannot do it. Have you encountered this issue before? Is

Hello, I want to show a YTD view for a KPI where it sums each month automatically. For example, in January I would be able to see budget vs actual and in February it would be Jan + Feb and so on. Is there any work around for this? This is the current KPI view that I have but I have manually filtered on the month. The view doesn’t work if i choose another month. 

Hi Pigment Community!  I wasn’t able to find a prior thread on this: What’s the best practice to show Months of Actuals and Forecast together based on the Switchover Date? e.g. I have 6 months, and 4 of them are actuals. I want to show the month and period type in the column titles, then my data:                  Sep 23                Oct 23               Nov 23              Dec 23                Jan 23                   Feb 23                 Actual                 Actual                Actual               Actual                Forecast                ForecastRow 1        ###                   ###                     ###                  ###                    ###                          ###Row 2Row 3etc.

Hi everybody, I’m sure, I’m not the only one, who wants to export reports sometimes.Options:Boards are good candidates for it, but there is no export functionality (why?). Metrics/views are good too, but you cannot export multiple views to one Excel or PDFWhat are you ways to export reports to files? Please share your ideas.

Dear community, I hope this you’re all well. This is the metric I want to fill my dimension property with:My quest is: I want it to give me the last client type filled before January 23My metricCan you please help me with this?