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I’m trying to create a template where people can introduce cost by supplier.How can I insert new lines for a preset table or metric? I tried to do so in the spreadsheet functionality bet it’s greyed out. Thanks in advance,G 

Sometimes the data that you upload in Pigment just isn't perfect. And that's ok, because nobody is perfect!In this article, I want to show you how you can convert a numeric date format (usually from Excel) to a date in Pigment. This date can then be used to convert to another time dimension like a month, a quarter or a year. All credit to @Remi for coming up with this methodology.Maybe you recognize this format below from your work in Excel, sometimes your date shows as a number.Example from Excel When your import file contains this number formatted date, there is an easy way to convert it in Pigment without first going back to Excel. As the number format in Excel is basically a calculation of a set start date (1-1-1900) + a number of days, we can use this same calculation to retrieve the date from the number. Use the Date formula to calculate your result as in the example below.  Date(1900,1,1) + Date Formatted Number -2 Date conversion example (dates in MM-DD-YYYY) The reason for the

Hi Pigment team! I’m trying to set up some cohort modeling for launches. I have an input metric, of dimensions [Partner] and [Cohort Month], where Cohort Month is a 0-indexed integer list. The inputs are the number of live clients in that month (it’s chunky, usually a piecewise rollout for the first 3-6 months). Let’s say partner A’s launch is coming up. Launch month is Cohort Month 0:                             0           :           1           :             2          :          etc.            Partner A           100                   500                    1000                  etc. I want to know when to switch from this manual input metric to my growth curve assumption for the forecast, so I have to map these cohort months to calendar months. I think the best way to do this is to have a mapping metric which returns the lastnonblank [Cohort Month] as an integer from the input metric outlined above. I can then use TIMEDIM to add that number of cohort months out from the launch m

Hello, In my Transaction List, I have a column called EUR CST that I calculate from a variable FX column. However, this EUR CST is associated with rates for the year 2022.We have just received the first figures for 2023, but we are now using a different rate (the rates are in a transaction list, with two columns: rate 22 and rate 23).What is the best way/best practice to switch to rate 23 for the 2023 figures?However, I would like to avoid doing this every year (in 2024, it would be nice if it automatically switched to the 2024 rate). Is there a way to do this? Because all my metrics depend on this column.Thank you,Alexandre

Hello ! Sorry my question might be really easy here but I am just a beginner. When trying to map my imported CSV, I have the error message “A Dimension List must have a unique Property".Do you know which error I have made? 

Hi Team,What is the IP for pigment servers that are used to send requests to Snowflake. Our snowflake is gated with IP addresses and we need this to allow access to the pigment tool.

Hi! For creating filtering views, why aren’t some dimensions allowed to be filtered by properties? For example, I have a dimension in my data hub for balance sheet accounts and some additional properties within that dimension, but I’m unable to filter by those properties. What I can do instead is add BS_Accounts → Property as a filter on the right-side bar, and restrict it to what I want to filter Filtering View unable to select “Property” for Dimension “BS_Accounts”: Filtering “BS_Accounts” Via Pages in Sidebar and Restricting Dropdown List: 

Is there a way to filter from the view all metrics in 1 filter to exclude zero values from a table? If there is a table with a lot of data & we want to connect it to a gsheet, having many rows with zero values slow down things. 

Without Round Up we were getting the value as 6.40 in june 23 in Black (Dimension list item) after round up we are getting 8 in june 23 but the value should come as 7. This is one example we are showing here but there are multiple errors. we are attaching the screenshot for the same

Does pigment.app have an api documentation, regarding the usage of api key .i am looking for full api doc that will help me to understand the endpoints and using those with cURL requests

We have a few spaces left for the next Customer Connect - Servicing Executive Stakeholders in Pigment!Next Monday we’re talking about servicing stakeholders in Pigment. Whether it’s investors, the C-Suite, or an executive sponsor, we want to discuss how you’re approaching this in Pigment. One of our Solution Architects will prepare some questions to help guide the conversation, but it’s an opportunity for you to share your own insights, and get some to help you better serve your own stakeholders.Are you a customer who wants to share and learn from your peers on this topic? Sign up now! 

Hello !I would like to duplicate a board for our German team (I have currently created a sales reporting for our French and Belgian team). However, if I duplicate this board and apply “Germany” in my Country dimension page, it also applies this country to my other board (for France and Belgium)… Do you know how I can unlink the 2 boards so that when I select a country, it doesn’t change the country in the other board?Thanks!!Elodie

I have a metric containing data that I would like to associate to a dimension list property, the LASTNONBLANK formulae is not working.

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Hello community :) I have a dimension with all my employee and their packages (with historization). For example: one personn who received a salary increase have 2 rows:first row with start end date of previous package second row with start date as end date of the previous packageWould it be possible to create a formula which allows to have a filter in page which ables to select only the last value in the dimension for each employee (ie the last up to date package)? Thanks a lot!

Hello community,I contact you regarding an issue of indirect costs allocation to several list items.I have (fictive number) 10K€ of indirect costs categorized as “No checkout ID” which i want to allocate to each item of my item lists based on an allocation key.To do so i’ve created 2 metrics based on 2 unique dimensions :1. “Id_checkout” (Item list to which the direct costs and indirect costs are to be allocated)2.  “Month” (because the allocation is based on a monthly basis)First metric - Checkout level test - Consolidation of indirect costs→ Filter on Indirect costs (“No checkout Id”)→ Dimensions : Date (Month), Id_Checkout  Second metric - Allocation Key Fees Test - Indirect cost allocation Key→ Logic is to divide the direct costs allocated to each item list by the total cost of the month1. Checkout level test - Direct cost per item - 2 dimensions (ID_checkout, Month)2. Checkout level Fees for allocation key - Total cost per month - 1 dimension (Month)→ It will give to each item lis

I have a transaction list that I want to move to a different application. The list is updated automatically using an API key. If I move the transaction list to its new application, will I need to update anything on the source system side or will the API key continue to work?

Hi everyone!I would like to know which encoding is recommanded when importing a document containing € signs. I usually pick the “Western European (ISO)” encoding but the € signs are not compatible:Could you please help me understand if this comes from the encoding or if I should adjust another parameter when importing data?Thanks! 🤗Elodie

I have a boolean metric with three dimensions: Position, Version and Month. Position Version Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 001 Forecast ☑️ ☑️ ☑️ ☑️ 001 Plan ☑️ ☑️ ☑️   002 Forecast ☑️ ☑️ ☑️ ☑️ Positions can be a part of different teams over time. I have another metric, *Position Mapping* which is of type Team with the same dimensions as the boolean. Position Version Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 001 Forecast Team A Team A Team A Team A 001 Plan Team A Team B Team B   002 Forecast Team X Team X Team Y Team Y  Now I want to add the Team dimension into the first metric. I have tried doing it like this:‘My boolean’ [by: → ‘Position Mapping’]Team Position Version Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Team A 001 Forecast ☑️ ☑️ ☑️ ☑️ Team A 001 Plan ☑️       Team B 001 Plan   ☑️ ☑️   Team X 002 Forecast ☑️ ☑️     Team Y 002 Forecast     ☑️ ☑️  This achieves the goal except for one thing. Wh

Hello,I have a metric (dimensions Month and Employee) where I have the Country of an Employee by Month (for example : from Jan 22 To Jun 22 → France, From Jul 22 to Dec 22 → UK).I have a Transaction with financial accounts with columns of Month and Employee ID.I need to get the Country of the Employee in the Transaction, according to the Month. How can I do that ? Thanks,Alexandre

Hello Pigment Community, I am trying to calculate the quarterly bonus of my employees and shift it by one month to simulate the payout on the first month after the quarter end.I will detail below the steps of my calculation and where I am stuck:My bonus expenses are by month. I was able to sum the quarterly amount with a [BY SUM: Month.Quarter] modifier. I want to add again the “Month” dimension and put this quarterly amount on the last month of the quarter only (or first month of the quarter, it doesn’t matter). This is where I am stuck. If I use a [BY CONSTANT: Month.Quarter] - the amount is written on all months of the quarter, and then I am unable to filter only on the first or last month of the quarter. The last step will be to SHIFT this amount by 1 month to simulate the payout on the first month after the quarter ends.  I would appreciate your help if you already worked on this topic! Thanks in advance,Steven

Wondering if there is a way to handle special characters that are present when dimensionalizing a text field where they are initially present.  In this example, the tilde over the “e” in cafe shows properly on the “Channel Name” of Type Text, but does not within the “Parent” field of type Dimension.  

Hi Pigment team,I need your help on creating a metric that reflects the values of prior period for a given metric, in a flexible way that allows me to change to quarters, months and doesn’t lose accuracy when aggregating.Thanks for your help :)

Hello Pigment Community, We are importing our General Ledger in a Transaction Table. In this Transaction Table, we have 2 key information that we are trying to rework:Document Number CC ID (= it’s the department ID) Our issue is that we have multiple lines for the same document number with multiple CC ID. Our objective is to get a unique list of document numbers with a unique CC ID attached to it. We know in advance that a specific list of CC IDs are not relevant and that we want to exclude them. If you look at the screenshot below, we have multiple lines for the Document Number “JOUFR12797”. We want to attach to this document number which CC ID it is flowing to. Our standard CC ID is a set of 3 digits, followed by the name of the department. Here, it is “340 - Customer Experience”. The others CC IDs that you see on the screenshot (“4 - P&L Allocation..” and “5 - P&L allocation”) are not relevant and we don’t want them in our unique list. What we want is basically a unique list

Hi Team,I just want to know is their any way by which pigment can automatically generate some number/code to a line item so that unicity remains in the list and once the code is allotted to a line item it can’t be changed even after the line item is deleted.   Thank you in advance