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Natalie
Employee
NatalieEmployee
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Naming conventions for tables and charts versions

When saving different versions of tables/charts, what are some good rules of thumb on how many to save and how to name them? I am trying to avoid saving too many so it doesn’t become overwhelming when I select the view for the boards. Wondering what the best practice is with the naming conventions and what works for different users.

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Elliot
Employee
Natalie
Employee
NatalieEmployee
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Folder organization good examples

Hi, I’m looking for best practices of organizing folders in a way that is clear and not cluttered. Please share what you are proud of and what worked for you. 

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Elliot
Employee
MKohli
Seasoned Pigmenteer
MKohliSeasoned Pigmenteer
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Accessing Dimension Value From a Metric

Is there any way or structure for me to access the value of a dimension from a Metric?Ex. I have a Number metric that has ARR dimensioned by Customer ID and Month. I would like to find the first month a customer had an ARR value. How would I be able to access the value of the Dimension. When using firstnonblank I only am able to get the value of the Metric and cannot access any of the dimension attributes.

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MKohli
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Mohamad MookhithJust Arrived
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Best way to share reports with several people

What would be the best way to share reports with several people, with each having a different filter applied? An example is if we have 50 site managers and each manager should see a report for their site only with site being a filter/ field within a current report.

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Keiran
Community Manager
CamilleMomo
Seasoned Pigmenteer
CamilleMomoSeasoned Pigmenteer
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Best Practice : Associate a metric with a dimension ?

For example if I have several metrics corresponding each to an allocation rule, and I want to define the allocation rule to be used for each entity of a company.Is there a best way than using a SWITCH statement to associate a metric with a dimension.In my example : SWITCH(Entities.Allocation Rule, “A”, ‘Allocation - A’, “B”, ‘Allocation - B’, ...)It is not totally optimal because I have to update the formulas each time an allocation rule is added.Thanks in advance !

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francois
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markdeprezJust Arrived
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VISUAL HINTS

Is there a way to have the visual hint ON by default?

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Chris
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Chelsea
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Join me in congratulating @Alix Noyon, @Camille Moreau, @Laure Vinot, @dktodinov, @Dastan,  @Konstantin Dzhengozov, @Mohamed Iraqi, @Axelle Cazalets, @Jason, @Mat, and @VyPigmenton becoming our newest Level 1 certified Modelers today! 🥳🥳🥳

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Rebe
Community Manager
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Jose RamonOccasional Observer
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Add "Last Date|Time Updated" to Boards

Dear community,How could we add “Last Date|Time Updated” to our Boards?“Last Date|Time Updated” = the last time the transaction list (data source of the board) was refresh/uploaded.The idea is to provide visibility to the final user of the board about how “fresh/updated” is the data in the board.Thanks.

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francois
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Venkata BiradarJust Arrived
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Calculating YTD

Hi,  I'm trying to build YTD formula that is based on switch over data.  For example if the switchover date is November, I would like to sum January-November numbers. What is the easiest way to do that? I tried to use the YEARTODATE formula, but it's not what I am looking for, as it's adding to each month the sum of the previous months.  

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francois
Employee
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Employee
EléonoreEmployee
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Welcome to the Pigment Community!

Hi Pigment People!I’m so delighted you’re here reading this. Ever since Romain (co-CEO and CTO) and I started our journey to create Pigment, we wanted to ensure what we built was powerful, flexible and easy to use. We’re still on that journey but you’ve all been crucial to where we are today.We’re going to stick around in this Community with you all (hopefully you’ll pop in often) to ensure that we stay true to our values and vision. It means a lot to be able to work with folks like yourselves who have a similar vision to us and understand how Pigment can help you and your own organisations. By coming here, I hope to get plenty of signals and feedback on how we’re doing there. If there are more articles or ideas that you would like to see, just start a discussion!It would be really cool if you introduce yourself in Rebe’s thread here. I’m looking forward to learning and sharing with you all — Romain and I, along with the whole Pigment team intend to be frequent contributors (you’ll see

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Employee
Roy Stolero
Budding Pigmenteer
Roy StoleroBudding Pigmenteer
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CAGR Function

Hello,Is there a formula that outputs cumulative average growth rates of a certain set of numbers? For example, an output of the last three months' revenues average growth rate could help model the rolling forecast (getting the trend is sometimes better than getting just the average).Does that make sense?Roy,Melio

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Roy Stolero
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Carolina LeeBudding Pigmenteer
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YTD with Table

I create a table to join some information and create a Full P&L per month. I want to use the formula YearToDate, it it possible? How can I do that?

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Nathan
Employee
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Carolina LeeBudding Pigmenteer
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Filter 2 items

I want to filter 2 itens of a dimension (SG&A and R&D), how can I do that?The formulua I created is this below, but I don’t know how to add another item with SG&A.[filter: 'P&L type'= 'P&L type'."SG&A"]

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Nicolas GenotJust Arrived
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Unable to filter data

Hi,I've been using filter to filter data in my view but when I do a calculation with the filtered dimension in a table, the value calculated seems to be taking into account the value of the filtered elements as well? Can I fix this or do I have to create a new dimension with different structure in order to get correct numbers?  

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Katrina
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Nicolas GenotJust Arrived
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How can I bring my data into Pigment?

Hi, I somehow missed how we can connect data in Pigment. I want to connect an excel file I've been working on. Is there a way to connect it? Thank you! 

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Katrina
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Venkata BiradarJust Arrived
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Looker data import failing

Hi, I’m trying to push data from Looker to Pigment but the export is failing due to "CSV Format & Mapping". When I try to do it with a csv it works with the same import pipeline.Here’s a screenshot of the error I’m getting:Could you please advise?  Thanks

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Katrina
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Alex BeattieJust Arrived
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Can Pigment connect to Google Sheets?

Hi, we’ve started using Pigment recently and worked with flat file exports only until now. I was wondering if it would be possible to get our data directly from google sheets for example? Thanks! 

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Katrina
Employee
Rebe
Community Manager
RebeCommunity Manager
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Our Pigment Story

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Rebe
Community Manager

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