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Rested, relaxed and ready to roll into the new year! We've started it by releasing 5 new product features for you to get a head start with improved business planning. Check out what's new and coming up in the Pigment realm. 📊 Sharper insights: improved Bar charts are coming! 📶 Sorting improvements are here! 🔐 Toggle access rights rules 📦 Understand dimensionality adjustments with a click ⌛ KEEP only selected Dimensions in formulas 🗺️ Pigment Academy: New Map charts course! 🗳️ Take our 3-min customer survey 🌉 Upcoming Bay Area User Groups 🗓️ Save the date: London & Paris User Groups Sharper insights: improved Bar charts are coming! Get excited! Starting late January 2026, Pigment Bar charts are getting a major readability boost. Enjoy more spacious layouts, scrollable legends for long lists, and left-aligned markers for effortless identification. With smarter grid lines, your grouped data has never looked better. Stay tuned—Line and Pie charts are next! Sorting improveme
Hi all, I have a strange behavior in some reports: if I collapse a dimension it adds an aggregation.For example I have a report which shows the following list of dimension and only the Months is aggregated inthe columns.In my example the Planning Cycle dimension is not aggregated (which wouldn’t make sense).But if I click on [- FY] to collapse the last columns it automatically activates the Planning Cycle dimension aggregation.The filter is activated automatically: I would like to deactivate this behavior.Best,Alex
I’m having an issue restoring an application. I’ve gone through the restoration process but when I open the app I no longer have access to certain key lists:Does it take a while for these to populate or is there another issue with our restoration?
What is the best way to compare two formulas to find differences between them?When updating logic in other systems I typically create a copy of the existing metric. Metric A contains the original logic and Metric B contains the new logic. In order to spot the differences between them, I would create a boolean formatted Metric C with the formula: Metric A < > Metric B. This would return all instances where the logic behaves differently.However this has been a challenge in Pigment due to the way the system handles sparse cells. Am I missing something here? or is there a best-practice for handling these situations?
Hello, I aggregated all the data received from the sales team and it gives me the quantity of bikes to produce for each combination of “Model”, “Colour”, “Fit option” and “Destination”. The combination of those different metrics also lead to 1 unique SKU code. How can I link those unique combination of dimensions to 1 unique SKU from dimension SKU? Thanks for your help!Ben
I have a P&L that is reported at a local currency. The department for each line is what controls the currency, and there are over 20 currencies being used. Reporting needs to be available in Local and four other reporting currencies. I have a filter to reduce the number of currencies. Currency Filterand a reporting currency dimension, that has currency mapped to it.Reporting CurrencyI’ve been able to convert from local to USD, then from USD to Reporting Currency, but I haven’t been able to go directly from local to reporting without either timing out or having too many blocks to complete the calculation. Any ideas are welcome, thanks!
Hello, I want to create a table with some KPIs. One of them calculates the number of different suppliers over a period. Transaction list: Invoice (properties: Nb of Invoice (text), Supplier (dim), Month (dim), Cost center (dim) and Value)Dimensions: Supplier, Month, Cost center I used this formula: Invoice.Supplier [BY COUNTUNIQUE: Invoice.supplier, Invoice.Month, Invoice.'Cost center'] It works well if I filter my view by month. But as soon as I select my entier year, it adds everything up (1,002) instead of counting the unique suppliers over the year (100). It's not the MAX function either, which would give me 98 as result. I expect this result:Jan 25 85Feb 25 70Mar 25 86Apr 25 78May 25 77Jun 25 79Jul 25 79Aug 25 98Sep 25 85Oct 25 78Nov 25 98Dec 25 89FY 25 100 Thanks for your help
Month after month, Pigmenauts share challenges, ideas, and solutions that help us all learn and grow together.To celebrate this knowledge sharing, here are January’s top 5 questions. We’re highlighting the ones that sparked the most interest and views from fellow members 💡.Whether you faced the same challenge or want to learn new tips, these threads are a great place to explore, contribute, and connect. Referencing a source metric containing when target contains a subset Question - @Chris Heathcote:“I have a target metric containing a subset. This dimension is a subset of a list present in a source metric. When I reference the source metric the data does not allocate over the subset list items as I would expect. Do I need to map the complete list into the subset?” Best Answer (self-answer) - @Chris Heathcote:Subsets and parent lists are treated as separate dimensions in Pigment, so values don’t automatically remap between them when used in formulas.To reference data correctly, subs
Hi Everybody,We have very detailed bottoms up forecasting for workforce planning, S&M and G&A budgeting but are scoping new ideas to calculate R&D ROI. How does your team or company think about efficiency and revenue impacts from non direct teams such as Engineering and Product?
Hello,I have a (probably) pretty easy question, but I can't quite figure it out. I have a couple of use cases where I need to allocate a value from a parent dimension (say: month) to the last dimension item of the child dimension (say: week). So in the case below I need to allocate 100 to week 48 2026 from the parent month dimension. I did use a workaround using a ‘last week’ property (1's and 0's) in the week dimension and multiplying by that. But I feel like there should be a better solution available. Can somebody help me out? :-) Thanks!Bas
Essentially, I want to skip the months of November and December when creating an offset. I’m offsetting the ‘Last Actuals Month’ by 6 to generate a 6 month lookback window and I’m struggling to find a way to get Pigment to recognize and skipover the months of November and December in that window. Example: If my Last Actuals Month is set to April 25, I would want my output to be August 25 instead of October 25 I got something like this to output: which is almost working but I don’t need Month of Year in the end structure and I can’t just uniformly remove it since in the screenshot, it’s only working properly if I was to remove December for the ‘Workforce’ scenario. Is there a way I can index a 10-month calendar and use that in the shift instead of a blanket ‘-6’? Has anyone faced an issue like this?
Hello, I’m trying to calculate YoY % in Pigment. Based on the data in the attached file, the Total YoY % is currently calculated using aggregated values. Is there a way to calculate YoY % at the lowest dimensional level and have the Total reflect that base-level calculation instead of recalculating from aggregated totals?
There is a workspace with 5 apps , all of the 5 apps are managed by T&D.Ques: For a dimension list namely “customers” in App A1.1 , can anyone please let me know why the “Disconnect Items” button is disabled?Requirement: In App 1.1: I need to mark some of the lists as disconnected and some as connected
Have you and your team made incredible progress with Pigment in 2025?Now's your chance to shine and tell us about it! Submissions to the 2025 Pigment Awards will be closing on January 31st, 2026.Whether you’re polishing your entry or just getting started, you've got 2 weeks left to shoot your shot at an award that celebrates individual or team achievements for the inspiring work you’re doing with Pigment.On top of bragging rights, us shining a light on your work, a personalized trophy and $200 gift for all winners, you can also earn $50 worth of Points in our Customer Advocacy Program simply for submitting your application.🏆 Join us in celebrating excellence across the Pigment community! 👉 Apply here 👈
Hello everyone!Adyen is looking for an FP&A Solutions Analyst to join our team in Amsterdam! The FP&A team is expanding this year and already includes an ex- Pigment solution architect and another data analyst which will actively work alongside you.This is a key role at the intersection of finance, data, and systems, and will help us predict the future with confidence. We are scaling our use of the Pigment to raise the bar on data quality, automation, and scalable forecasting across all of Finance functions. About AdyenAdyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. What you’ll doOwn Pigment for P&L / Balance Sheet / Cash Flow: build, maintain, and improve the core models, structures, and drivers used by FP&A and Finance. Fix data at the root: identify recurring issues in Pigment
Hi All! My name is Aastha and I’m a Manager on our FP&A team at Discord! We currently have a new role that just opened up on our team supporting our R&D Org! Given this team's unique position in the company, you will help establish coordination and communication between various teams, such as Engineering, Product Management, Finance and Accounting, and our Talent teams. With these teams, you will drive our planning and forecasting process, ensuring that both are aligned with our longer-term strategic and financial aspirations. In addition, you will gain invaluable experience that offers autonomy, deep interactions with business partners, and the opportunity to impact a rapidly growing business.https://discord.com/jobs/8335879002
Hi,I want to compare the data coming from 2 differents versions (Actual and Budget 2026) and scenarios (Base case and Snapshot 11-12- 2026):1)First version and scenario: Actual - Base case2)Second version and scenario Budget 2026- Snapshot 11-12- 2026How can do it so i can display these 2 columns (1) and 2)) instead of the 4 different columns below ?In addition, how can i compare the 1) and 2) in a calculated item ? Currently i don’t see the option to select a snapshot in a calculated item. Thanks for your help
Hello,For some reason I cannot enter a product idea, so that's why I start this topic as a conversation.It would be nice if there was the option to control the points labels in line charts. Now you can only toggle all the points labels on or off for all datapoints. I would like to have the opportunity to control which points labels I want to see. For example, I only want to see the points labels for line X, but not line Y and Z. Or I only want to see the points labels for the last datapoint instead of all of them. To be able to control the points labels makes the charts more easy on the eyes. Especially when they are presented in a powerpoint.Thanks!
The first time I pulled data from Pigment into Excel, everything worked correctly and the data loaded. However, when I tried to pull the same dataset again using the same filters, I received an error saying: “The view is too big to be displayed.”How can I resolve this issue?
Hi all, Before Pigment, when we used to run on our planning on spreadsheets, if an investor wanted to see how our model worked, we could make a version of ur planning model spreadsheet, which we could share with them and they could then get one of their analysts to dig down into the spreadsheet modelling to see how it worked for themselves... … but, having fully migrated from spreadsheet modelling to Pigment, what do we do now,?Assuming the investor has no prior knowledge of how Pigment works, we can’t just give them access and tell them to take a look for themselves, like we used to do with spreadsheets. So, I am interested to know, what do people do in this situation? What do you give them to look at to demonstrate the model works? Or is it that they can no longer look for themselves and must rely on guided tours/demo from us, instead?
Hi Community,I’m trying to set up an automation that sends a snapshot of our Headcount by Country MoM metric, and I have two specific requirements: Dynamic Data: the report needs to contain data only for the last closed month. Format: it needs to be sent in PDF or as an image. External Recipients: I’d this email to go to people who do not have a Pigment license/account. Any guidance on whether this is natively supported would be appreciated!Thanks!Andy
We are thrilled to announce a major step forward in how you visualize your data. We are progressively improving chart clarity and readability across our entire platform to ensure your insights are sharper than ever. The Journey Begins with Bar ChartsStarting in late January 2026, we are rolling out significant enhancements specifically for Bar charts. While your existing color palettes, layouts, and formatting will remain exactly as you like them, you will notice a cleaner, more intuitive feel to your visualizations. What’s Changing?We’ve focused on three core areas to improve your experience:Improved Readability: Labels and legends are now clearer with cleaner spacing. Grid lines have been added to appear between bars, making data much easier to digest at a glance. Optimized Layouts: We’ve redesigned the widget layout to give the charts themselves more room, maximizing the visibility of your data. Richer Interactions: Scrollable Legends: No more lost information! Legends contain
Hi - It would be great to have the ability to publish messages or announcements that are automatically sent to all active internal Pigment users.For example, when actuals are updated, we’d like to notify users so they can log in and review the latest numbers.We have more than 100 users, and today this requires sending multiple Slack messages just to make people aware.Thanks!
Hi - the new feature whereby hints are offered directly in the formula bar are a little confusing. In the above are they simply highlighting where I have used ‘BY’ modifier and explaining what is happening or does the formula need to be updated? Prior to today my goal with the formulas is to minimise any text here and I am not sure if this is highlight an error or not as the formulas look good.Thanks
For the purpose of versioning, we are using a combination of methods for different use cases. This would include scenarios (incl snapshots), publishing and cloning. We have instances where we may need to edit a formula in LIVE but leave the locked forecast as is. In order to do we, we enable “add formulas for scenarios”. I noticed that formulas are editable even in locked scenarios. How can I make sure that if a scenario is locked, NO ONE, including admins, can edit it? Leaving this edit option open for locked scenarios can have unintended changes.
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