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Budding Pigmenteer
gabmactavishBudding Pigmenteer
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Failed Import - CSV Data Type - "Transfer didn't successfully complete"

Hi Pigment Community,We have daily scheduled imports that are uploaded automatically from an API connection with Xero.I’ve never had an issue with them for many months, but all of a sudden 3 of them had error messages this morning.Any troubleshooting ideas to resolve this? Screenshots of the specific error message below.Thanks,Gab3 out 5 imports failed The error message I’m getting 

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Nathan
Employee
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Budding Pigmenteer
KarlBudding Pigmenteer
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Lookup between two transaction lists

Hi, I have two transaction lists:TBL_employees - a transaction list that includes information relating to each employee at the end of each monthTBL_accounting - a transaction list that includes all the journal entries from our accounting softwareIn the TBL_accounting we have a dimension called EMPLOYEE_ID, this dimension contains the ID of an employee for all journal entries that relate to a specific employee (ex. salaries), and a dimension MONTH that contains the month of the journal entry.In the TBL_employees we have the same two dimensions - EMPLOYEE_id and MONTH as well as a dimension called EMPLOYEE_category which specifies if the employee is a manager or an individual contributor.What I want to do is add the dimension EMPLOYEE_category into TBL_accounting using the EMPLOYEE_id and MONTH dimensions as filters but I can’t find a formula that works.The challenge is that the EMPLOYEE_category can vary for the same EMPLOYEE_id depending on the month (ex. an employee being promoted), s

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Budding Pigmenteer
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Jan Veerman PlanadigmOccasional Observer
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What is the easiest way to check connectivity between Models

If you create 3 Models, what is the easiest way to check which Dimensions, Metrics from one Model are used in another?Case: a copy has been made of a working Model and updated. Too many updates have been made and we want to make the copied Model the new Model, but we need to check which Blocks to reconnect. What is the best way to do that? Dependency Diagram in combination with Settings > Libraries? Or is there a quicker way?

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Gawain
Community Manager
Elliot
Employee
ElliotEmployee
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Exporting CSV Files from Pigment and Transforming them in Excel

    The purpose of this article is to explain how you can export CSV data from Pigment and transform it into Excel so that the data is separated into columns.When you export data from Pigment, data is separated by semicolon. If you are planning to use the data in Excel, this is not very useful as all of your data grouped in a small number of columns. As a result we need to perform transformation on the extract before we can use the data.Steps to transform the data in ExcelTo transform the data in Excel, you should follow the steps below: Download CSV on Pigment   Open a new Excel workbook    Select “Get Data” -> “From File” -> “From Text/CSV”  Select the exported file (the one that was downloaded from Pigment)   Change the delimiter to semicolon if not selected automatically. Press Load Your data should now be loaded in a format that can be used for Excel analysis    

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Elliot
Employee
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
anjanaNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Summing sprcific values

HelloI am trying to pull data on one dashboard from another , where I am trying to sum up 2 specific accounts. This is the formula I am using : 'Data - Monthly - Final'[filter: 'CoA & Function'.CoA = CoA."30012" AND 'CoA & Function'.CoA = CoA."30011"] What is wrong here? The amount come up blank. When I remove the text post “30012” I get the numbers for 30012. Is AND not something I should use here?

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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
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Budding Pigmenteer
Naomi VriendBudding Pigmenteer
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Bamboo HR integration error: "Report does not exist"

Hi Pigment Support, I’ve integrated Bamboo with our workforce planning app via API Token.However, when I try to import a report get the error “Report does not exist”.I know the report exists in Bamboo, and I have double checked the report ID which is definitely right.We have also integrated Bamboo with other services we use without issue.Any hints on how to fix this?Thanks!Naomi

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Fabien
Employee
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Just Arrived
Mor KebeJust Arrived
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reate the Bonus per month Metric

 Month is supposed to be a list demension but if i write t the formula it came like a function.Thats why the formula is false 

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Benoit
Community Manager
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Anas TahriOccasional Observer
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HINT feature ON by default

Hello, Is there a possibility to have the Hint feature enabled by default or a conditional format that highlights cells where end users can manually make changes? Thanks in advance,Best,Anas

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Employee
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
Daniel CicakNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Salesforce Import Amount Fields

Hi Community,we just started to push Salesforce Data into Pigment.Currently we face the issue, that our Salesforce amounts  (Type currency) cannot be imported into Pigment as number, due to the currency symbols.Is there any workaround instead of converting all Salesforce amount currency fields into number fields? (we have a lot)Thanks,Daniel

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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
abhilashsawla
abhilashsawlaPigment Academic
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How to define Security Read & Write Access

Hi,I have two applications. Hub (All Dimensions and Security Role.) Budgeting (All Calculations)I want to know how I can define security in budgeting application by using of Hub application role dimension.

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abhilashsawla
nancy
Seasoned Pigmenteer
nancySeasoned Pigmenteer
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Boolean security

Hi Team,Can anyone help me to define security for a Boolean.In my use case there is a requirement that user can select only one scenario (3 scenarios created in a dimension) for each country and product family. Thanks in advance  

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Benoit
Community Manager
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Budding Pigmenteer
AhmedBBudding Pigmenteer
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Pushing Data from Gsheet to Pigment

Hi here,The possibility to Push Data from Gsheet to Pigment is very useful, thanks.However, when pushing the informations, it seems that the line are being added to the previous lines and not replacing them.For example, if someone is reviewing his budget in Gsheet and we want to push the information in Pigment, new figures will be added the previous pushed figures.Is there a way to “update” the Named_Range and not adding it? Thanks

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Benoit
Community Manager
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
YaejisNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Find certain text and exclude

Hello!Can someone please help me to upgrade the following formula?I would like to add following statement: “If there’s [N/A] in the job name, (blank) result in the ‘Model FCST Month Dimension’ property.IF(ISBLANK('[FCST] Greenhouse List'.'Start Date (Offer) Dimension'),IF(ISBLANK('[FCST] Greenhouse List'.'Manual Input'),'[FCST] Greenhouse List'.'Forecast Start Date Dimension','[FCST] Greenhouse List'.'Manual Input'),'[FCST] Greenhouse List'.'Start Date (Offer) Dimension')Thanks in advance!!   

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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
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BenedikteOccasional Observer
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Filter function for multiple contitions

Hi, I am looking for a way of using the filter function with two conditions. Example: Looking for a sum of specific accounts and cost centers. lets say for accounts: 400,401 and 406 and from cost centers 21;1000;1150;1321;1400;2321;2400.I am already using the filter to look for the sum of the accounts, but found out that I need it on specific cost centers as well Any ideas how to solve this? :) - Benedikte

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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
MikhailIvinNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Filtering different elements of a dimension in the same metric

Hi everybody. I’ve come across a task to post one metric to a dashboard in the form of several graphs each of which will show the only element of a dimension. Let’s say we have different networks: 2g, 3g, 4g in a single metric. I need three graphs to show traffic per network type: The first one should be 2g traffic, another one - 3g, the last one - 4g.They should not be synchronized by this dimension (‘Technology’ dimension on the graph). How to properly do it? Thank you.

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francois
Employee
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
YaejisNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Count by hired and terminate dates and employee type

Hello, What is best way to setup the metric formula to summarize the # of headcount by following three?by Division (using Division property) by monthly (using Effective date property. This is basically monthly HC Data exported date.) by Worker type. (using Worker Type property)  Thanks in advance! 

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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
abhilashsawla
abhilashsawlaPigment Academic
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Write Access for boolean Type data type

HiCan we provide Write access to Boolean data type?if yes, please let me know how.

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abhilashsawla
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
sbenkovNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Growth of Negative Items and Conditional Formatting

I’m having issues properly showing the growth and variance of negative items.As an example, if actual EBITDA was -0.25 and budget was -1.0, I can get the difference to display correctly, but my only options for % variance are-75% (-.25- -1.0)/-1 or  +300% (-1- -.25)/-.25Neither of those are correct.  It should be +75%.  I can use “Reverse Signs” but that doesnt apply to conditional formatting.  Has anyone figured out a better way to show this in a table?

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KhadijaFrequent Reader
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Multiple IFS

Dear all,Can you please help me with this function? I keep getting the error note.  I am trying to say IF(X or Y then) and IF(A or B then).The function is as follows:  

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Budding Pigmenteer
Team PlanafinBudding Pigmenteer
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Board Visualization

Hi Team, As we know pigment is all about visuallization, how interesting and convenient we can make board for the end user and visually appealing . On community we have article on Board Inspiration also where we get tips on board preparation but it would be more helpful if we could have some pictorial representation of how we can make our board more eye catching and sensible for end user at the same time. It would be preferred if we could have some sample images of recommended board. Or is there any article on the same which i may have missed than kindly help me locate that. Thank you in advance

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Benji
Employee
Guillermo Puls
Budding Pigmenteer
Guillermo PulsBudding Pigmenteer
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FX Conversion Challenge

Hi Pigment Folks, I have the following FX conversion rate challenge,ContextI build my Balance Sheet from staging transaction amounts in local currency from Transactions list and structuring the amounts over a hierarchy were account number is the lower level.My problem comes when trying to convert the amounts to our reporting currency. - I have a metric where I input the conversion rates on a monthly basis. - The balance sheet has the following behaviour: Every month, the cumulative amounts should be converting to the latest rates. And every year should be converting to the last month of the year rates.ChallengeI’m looking to create an FX metric that I can apply to the staged amounts that it’s flexible.I mean that whenever I’m showing data by years, quarters and months select the right rates.For years would multiply the staged cumulative amounts by last month of the year rateFor month would multiply the staged cumulative amounts by each month ratesFor quarters would multiply the staged

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Nathan
Employee
nancy
Seasoned Pigmenteer
nancySeasoned Pigmenteer
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EBITDA

Hi Team,Please suggest me a way to calculate the difference between Income (List item) and Total Expense (Calculated item) in order to calculateate EBITDA.Screenshot attached below for your reference. 

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Benji
Employee
abhilashsawla
abhilashsawlaPigment Academic
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Why Empty Row is added automatically in This Table and how to remove it.

Hi I Have created a table, but an Empty Row is getting added there with data and not getting any Error while applying formula. Please help to solve this problem and Screen Shot is attached here for your reference. 

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Benoit
Community Manager
MKohli
Seasoned Pigmenteer
MKohliSeasoned Pigmenteer
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Unique Counting w/ Filters

Hi Community, Wondering if someone has been able to manage counting unique customers for a metric dimensioned by customer & product.We have an ARR Metric defined by Customer ID, Product and Month. I would like to have a count by month of the unique customers which have an ARR value. The standard approach using the formula below is effective in having total customer accounts but I am then unable to filter on the products available. IF('Ending ARR'[remove sum: 'Product Type'] <> 0 and ISDEFINED('Ending ARR'[remove sum: 'Product Type']), 1 , blank)I worked to try and resolve this issue by leveraging the below formula which does allow me to filter on products and not double count total logos but when filtering on a single product the number becomes understated. Exec filtering on a product that is part of a set>1 would yield 0.5 or 0.33 vs 1Switch(IF('Ending ARR' <> 0 and ISDEFINED('Ending ARR'), 1 , blank)[remove sum: 'Product Type'],  1,1,  2,0.5,  3, 1/3)*IF('Ending AR

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Fabien
Employee
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KhadijaFrequent Reader
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Data Import Error Message

Dear all, I have been trying endlessly to import data into this transaction list, but we get this error message of excluded values from the CSV source. We’ve already imported data into other lists and it’s the first time we get this error message so I was wondering if you could help us with it.Here is the error messagethe excluded data was supposed to be added on properties that are dimensions. The data we’re importing is very simple text And the dimensions already exist on Pigment, we’ve already created them.I would really appreciate your help dear Pigment Community!

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Nathan
Employee

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