Questions & Conversations

I have a rather large transaction list (roughly 5M rows) with several dimensions.  I need to map the combination of these unique dimensions to assign my data into user managed groupings.  To do that, I need to do a 2 part calculation by first concatenated the various dimensions and then matching it to the grouped dimension.MATCH('_ Subscriber Activity'.'Account Type'.Name &"-"& '_ Subscriber Activity'.'Product Group'.Name &"-"& '_ Subscriber Activity'.'Product Subscribe Group'.Name &"-"& '_ Subscriber Activity'.'Device Sub Cohort'.Name &"-"& '_ Subscriber Activity'.'Device Type Cohort'.Name &"-"& '_ Subscriber Activity'.'Marketplace Cohort'.Name &"-"& '_ Subscriber Activity'.'Customer Subscribe Category'.Name,'_ Product Attributes'.Name) The problem is that I get an error that is: “Product Attributes: Formula timed out (> 3 minutes)”.  I’m not sure how to work around this error with a more optimized approach.  Any help will be much app

Is there a way to make the dashboard load faster ?E.g. There is a dashboard having a grid with 50 metrics (all of the metrics are with ‘Customers’ dimensionality) and 10 filters on top of the board.If only 1 filter is selected, it doesn’t load the view/grid

Hello everyone,I have created a Clone data in metrics set up on my application settings but when I go to the board to add the action button the Clone data in Metrics form does not appear to let me choose what i want to copy and where..Basically i can only use one preset configuration into the app settings. Am I loosing a step? I also see in the documentation that is clearly possibile but I can’t manage to set it up;Thanks in advance, community, for your help! :) 

We are experiencing that if we save a copy of a Google Sheet with Pigment Connector connections, we lose the connections in the copied sheet.  We just want to double-check if there's a way to maintain connections in a copied sheet or is it perhaps on the radar to be supported in the future?  Thank you!

Is there a way to retain number formatting in excel when using the Pigment Excel Connector?  I can retain things such as cell borders, colors, etc. but cannot retain number formatting.  Every time I pull data to refresh from Pigment, the number formatting is overridden in my excel workbook.This is not the case with the Google Sheets connector, which does retain number formatting in cells where Pigment data is being imported.  Does this functionality exist for the Excel connector, or is this a feature request?  

Hey Pigment community, I need to create a unique ID in a list by concatenating text values from several other properties. This works perfectly when my new unique ID column is set to the Text type.However, my requirement is for this unique ID to be of the Dimension type. As soon as I switch the column type to Dimension, the concatenation formula stos working, citing a type incompatibility.I've been trying to find a workaround for a while without any luck. Has anyone run into this before or have any ideas on how to solve this?Thanks in advance for your help!Andy

I am trying to export pigment data to PowerBI following the guided steps available on community, but I get an error “404 id not found”. Does anyone know what I could be missing in the setup? I used payload functionality to generate ID for metrics. 

I have an integer dimension by month, vendor, and function that has “1” if that vendor was employed in that specific month. How can I cumulate but reset if the employment is blank? I.e. some vendors are employed for 3 cumulative months, then take a 7 month break, and come back for 2 months so I would want the respective values to show 3 cumulated and then 2 cumulated. Thank you!

Hi,I’d need some help to better understand how i can return per employee the average salary of its departement.Thanks 

Hi Pigment - If the dependency is the previous month end inventory, why do we use the incoming order in the formula please.Thanks,Louie 

Hello everybody,Does anybody know if it is possible to use scenario's as an incremental effect to the default scenario? For my use case: I have a default scenario where my users are inputting their baseline forecast for the coming months/ years. I would like for them to be able to also model the associated risks & opportunities as incremental effects to that baseline forecast. So, basically: default scenario + opportunities = best case scenario. And; default scenario + risks = worst case scenario. And: default scenario + opportunities + risks = realistic scenario. I have tried copying scenario inputs from scenario A to scenario B, but that only overwrites the initial data in scenario B instead of data from A being appended to B. Manually copying and pasting all inputs from A to B and then adding additional input in B is too much of a hassle. Let alone that you'd have to keep in mind to update 3 scenario's if you change something in the baseline. It would be great if there's an eleg

Is there a way for an end user to change a selection of booleans to True or False simultaneously? I would like to select a group of Booleans and turn them all true or all false by highlighting the cells and then pressing a button or series of buttons. Does this series or keystroke exist?

I have set up item variables based on snapshots of my model. is it possible for my calculated items to automatically change based on which item is selected in the board filters?

Hi!Could you please elaborate on what “preferred” means here? If dimensions are not in the preferred selection, will they be left out? Thanks,Louie  

Hello all - I am new to Pigment and am having some serious difficulty staging up a lease schedule for my client. The client wants to input future forecasted leases as follows:Step 1: Select a region from a drop down menu  The region is already dimensioned via “L1 Geo” Step 2: A lease value column should prepopulate based on default regional values. The “L1 Geo” dimension has two additional columns with default Lease Values and default Cage values.  Step 3: A “Cage Fee” column should prepopulate based on default regional values. The “L1 Geo” dimension has two additional columns with default Lease Values and default Cage values.  Step 4: A rent escalator column should prepopulate with 3% Step 5: A term column should prepopulate with 60 months Step 6: A “Start Date” column should be manually entered Step 7: A monthly view should show two separate calculations that starts based on the start date of the lease: Lease value amortization & Cage Fee amortization.  So far I have the follo

Hi All,Does anyone know how “Auto-Input Using Default Page Items” this works?There is metric with data type dimension. Same dimension is on the page selectors. The value of the page selector should also be the value in this metric

My headcount planning app currently uploads a headcount report on a monthly basis and the forecast basically rolls forward after every new month and the only way I can compare changes over months is to take a snapshot and change the switchover month.How should I approach making this update since it seems like I would have to rework the entire application and add a version to every metric? My current thought is that a budget version is tied to a specific months load, so I can do a mapping for load month → version but does that work?Example:Current monthly data by load monthExpected Result if I want to use June load month for BoD Version. The data from Jul onwards would only use data up to the June load and not use anything beyond that.  Any ideas would be appreciated. Thank you!

Hello Pigment Community,Our organisation is currently undergoing a migration to utilise SQL data warehouses on Databricks, and we're looking to transition our connection from Redshift to Databricks. However, we haven't found a straightforward, out-of-the-box solution to establish this connection.Could anyone from the Pigment team or community members who have faced similar challenges provide guidance on the proposed solution for connecting directly to Databricks? We currently have a workaround involving copying our Data Lake models into S3 and then connecting from there, but we're eager to explore a more direct integration.Thank you in advance!

Hi,Can someone please tell me about the best practice for Data Cloning in metrics from one version to another such that even data which is the result of a formula gets cloned when new version is added? This is my find with regards to data cloning:1) In formula driven metrics with manual override on, only manual inputs get cloned. Data resulting from formula does not get cloned.

Hi,I’m trying to set up an iterative calculation to use the PREVIOUSOF function to address a circular reference. However, in my application the setup doesn’t appear the same as described in the article “Iterative Calculations Across Multiple Blocks Using PREVIOUSOF.”Instead of showing options for Cycle Name, Iteration Dimension, and Metrics That Can Reference Each Other (as mentioned in the article), it only gives me the option to add an iterative calculation and asks me to select the Base Metric and Allowed Metric. 

Hi All,Although PREVIOUSBASE() is replaced by PREVIOUSOF(), why am I unable to see that update in my workspace?I am only able to use PREVIOUSBASE and it keeps throwing me circular reference error.According to this documentation - This should be new interface where we don’t need to select a base metric Instead, while setting up iterative calculation to use PREVIOUSOF, this is my current interface Can someone please tell me how I can start using the new update?

 Hi everyone 👋I’m currently trying to build a formula that returns Actuals across different versions.What I’d really like is to have something like a dynamic SELECT[MONTH - X], so it always pulls the correct month automatically.I already managed to create a working formula above, but I’m not fully satisfied — it feels like there should be a simpler and more dynamic way to achieve this. I  tried as below creating a metric to use as a pointer with SELECT: Month = Technical Metric with the function Edate OR  SELECT: Month - Technical Metric but it didn’t work as expected. When I attempt this, I get the following error:    The strange thing is that both metrics do share the same dimensions (Month + Version), so I’m not sure why Pigment doesn’t allow the SELECT here. What’s the best way, in your opinion, to dynamically retrieve data for different months using SELECT or other approaches ? Thanks a lot for your help !

Hi Pigment - would you please share the difference between Previousbase and Previousof. They look the same from the documentation perspective. Thanks,Louie

Hi community,I have a transaction list that is being shown in a board as a list widget.It contains some qualitative survey answers, which can be extensive. This generates a bad user experience, as I can’t make the rows taller, and the only way the users can see the full content of a cell is by hovering the mouse on top of it.Is there a “text wrapping” functionality I can apply to expand the text-heavy cells automatically? Or is there a way to make the rows taller that I might be missing?I’m also open for other suggestions on how to handle this so it’s more visually-friendly for my key users,Thank you!Andy