Questions & Conversations

I am trying to show just the quarter end and year end headcount. However, rather than taking the last month in the quarter or the year, the quarter end numbers sums every month. How do I set up headcount so the quarter does not show a sum of the periods but rather the last period? For now, I’ve created a report with just the last months of the quarter but I plan to add headcount to the bottom of a PnL which has accounts summed in the quarter.

Hi Pigmenteers! When reading Top Tips for modeling in Pigment - Part 2: Performance Optimisation, there’s an idea as highlighted in the screenshot below: to avoid doing too much within one metric, there’s “a good guideline is that, if you have to copy and paste part of a formula more than once, it may be worth its own metric” - I don’t quite get it, can you help explain this idea to me?  

Hello,I need to create a form for end users to assign  a cross-dimension (direction and activity) to 2 new dimensions (Analytical Dim level 1 and Analytical Dim level 2). To do this, I was thinking of:Creating a table with the direction/activity cross and the associated data. Creating 2 metrics with the direction and activity dimensions A. to select: Analytical Dim level 1 B. to select: Analytical Dim level 2However, I would like the selection of "Analytical Dim level 1" to only display the child items of Analytical Dim level 2. Is it possible to do this and if so, how?Thank you in advance for your help.

Could someone please help let me know if I could have my calculation shown in points vs bps? Thank you

Hi everyone, I am trying to display images in my reports but i get this error message “The image couldn’t be displayed” The link is working when pasting it in the browser, and the source is authorized Here is the link of the Image i would like to display : https://drive.usercontent.google.com/download?id=1P7ssJsoxLzsQjkGdRf_b4EFTYvIbAQmr&authuser=0 Thank you in advance for your help

Hi, I’m trying to add a view of a monthly total headcount metric (a cumulative value, dimensioned by month) to quarterly and annual tables that will show only the final headcount from the last month of each period. For example, I know Pigment’s default behavior is to sum this cumulative headcount across every month of a year if I add the headcount metric to an annual table directly, but I need to isolate December 31 headcount only. Is there a relatively simple way to create these period-end summary numbers?Thanks!

Hey there,I’m trying to use yesterday’s revenue to forecast the rest of the month’s revenue.For that, we created a Day dimension, which is a calendar type.Strangely, when displayed in the dimension itself, it looks normal (like a date).However, when we add it to a metric pivot it always adds the time. How do we stop it from doing this?I’ve already checked the Day dimension Special Properties and Default Display Name and it just uses the Name column for this.Images below.Any help is much appreciated! Day dimensionDay dimension used in a metric pivot 

Hello,I am trying to calculate the number of employees who left by hire date cohort and number of months that they stayed in the society. Here is the formula I have (but doesn’t work because it is too complicated I think):Employee [BY COUNT: Employee.'Cohort Month', Employee.'Month tenure cohort', Employee.Country, Employee.'First Job Position'.'Team Graph HR']The Cohort month corresponds to the month of arrival.The Month tenure cohort corresponds to the number of months the employee stayed in the society.I want this metric by team department (Team Graph HR) of their first job position (because some employees can evolve from one job to another in the company).Could you please help me finding the best formula here?Thanks!Elodie

Curious to know if there any 1st or 3rd party connectors to get capiq data directly in pigment automatically.It’s not too difficult to upload a CSV on a monthly cadence, but would be great if there was a live connection. The alternative is to send this to an internal DWH then to Pigment, but that might be a lot of internal work from our BI teams.

Hi, I want to use the AND function together with the IF function in one formula in a property of a transaction list. Is this possible in Pigment? I can’t seem to get the AND part to be recognised when using it as part of the logical test of an IF statement, the way you can in Excel. In Excel for example I can write an IF statement using AND:=IF(X2>7,"check",IF(AND(E2="Direct",M2="Retail O&O",X2>0),"check","OK")) But in Pigment when I type AND as part of my IF statement, the function doesn’t seem to be recognised and my formula doesn’t work. The text for ‘AND’ doesn’t show up in green the way it does for the IF function (or other functions.) I don’t have any issues using the IF function otherwise, or nesting multiple IFs in a formula, it’s just that I can't seem to use IF with AND. Please let me know if it’s possible, or if perhaps I need to write it in a different way? If not possible I suppose I can create a separate property to do the AND check. Thanks,Cat

HiI want to sum the values from my current starting point to the last value available in a metric. As you can see first value is 0.22 and last is -30,993,214 and sum of all those in middle will be 30,669,213 something.that metric called inp_when to sell asset differs for each sage entity asset. How can i go about doing this calc in simple way? I tried moving sum etc but doesnt work. 

Hello,I have created the budget based on historical data (budget version based on actuals version up to a switchover date), but at each closing period and when we import the new data, the historicals can vary so it makes my whole budget move… The uploaded data for the actuals is imported into several transaction and dimension lists.It is not optimal as the budget should be closed as of now and not moving. Has anyone encountered the same issue? The idea would be to be able to use the budget version in comparison tables so it needs to be fixed in the app.Hope this makes sense!Thanks,Elodie

Hey,I am trying to reference the headcount for December and apply it to all months in the relevant financial year as part of a calculation. i.e if head count in Dec 24 in 100 and Dec 25 is 150, the formula would show 100 for all months in 2024 and 150 in all months of 2025.Has anyone done anything like this before and found a solution? Thanks! 

Hi! Can someone please help with setting up the formula for below? Thanks in advance!----Dates:Given Data (yellow highlighted) Question: I am seeing for formula to get the result below yellow highlighted row, “Result”.  The calculation starts from 3rd months from the start date, 10/31/2022. So it needs to calculate “January value 18,792 minus start date value 18,792. The result for 2023 Jan is zero. Then, calculation is same concept but moves forward. It’s always deducting the start date value, 18,792.  For July 2023, calculation is July 2023 19,355 minus the start date value 18,792, resulting 564.The calculation should stop in Bridge end date, 12/31/2023.   Thank you!

Hello, I have gone through all of the available training and videos for Pigment modules and setting up Demos. I would like to know if there are any additional Demo resources and data I can use to test my skills.

Which formula can I use for Net Income at my balance sheet in the begging of the year where I need to transfer all Net income to Retained earnings / losses and start accumulate again? See below an example. I read this article below but I couldn’t understand: 

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

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!

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

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.

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...

 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

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!

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

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