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Seasoned Pigmenteer
KevinSeasoned Pigmenteer
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Trace Where Variable Is Used

I have inherited an application and am trying to clean up some items that I don’t believe are in use.  I have a variable that I cannot trace where it is being used (if being used at all).  Is there a way where I can see usage similarly how you can for a block?  I suspect this is not being used as a filter in a board but I want to check before removing it.  Thank you! 

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K
Seasoned Pigmenteer
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
Shane CrinesNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Removing Dimension without Impacting Manual Inputs on Metrics

Is there any way to remove a dimension without impacting manual inputs on metrics?  We built our application with nearly every metric using a “version” dimension in order to do budget v forecast and various other scenario planning. With the introduction of scenarios & snapshots, we no longer need to have this additional dimension on every metric.  If, for example, I removed all values on the version dimension list except for our forecast which we use to house all of our manual inputs, could I remove the version dimension and have those values be retained on all of the metrics that leveraged the version dimension? If not, is the only solution to re-input every manual input & manual override across every metric that used that dimension?

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julian_s
Newly Minted Pigmenteer
julian_sNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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WF Planning: Remove Lastnonblank month Gives A Different Return

Hi Folks, struggling with an issue here. I have HC by dept over time. What I’m trying to do is take the last month of actuals, in this case December. In the example below, its 805. However, when I remove lastnonblank month, the amount jumps to 917. What I noticed when I drill into the 917 is that while month is taking the last month, the other dimensions are being flattened so counts are duplicating where things have changed over time. How do I take the lastnonblank of the other dimensions as well?

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julian_s
Newly Minted Pigmenteer
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
Ta-WingNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Sidebar

Is there a function where the sidebar remains hidden but expands when you hover over it without having to double click to expand?

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Employee
Ola
Seasoned Pigmenteer
OlaSeasoned Pigmenteer
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Link to a prefiltered board

When you apply a filter to a board you can see that the url is updated to include the current filter. The problem is just that the url only includes a GUID. Is there any way to find these guids in Pigment? For example when filtering on a specific employee in my employee dimension I can see that []=df7ce50d-304b-472e-a8e0-f448d960e8de is added to the url, and I would expect that each employee is related to a unique guid, so question is just how to get from dimension value to a guid. My use case is that I am having a grid view with a list of employees. For each employee I would like to link to another board with details about each employee and I would like this board to automatically be prefiltered based on which row I clicked on the first board. 

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Andrea
Community Manager
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Budding Pigmenteer
venitiavBudding Pigmenteer
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Intern to permanent contract - formula for end date

Hi,Do you have a best practice to recommend on how to manage interns who are converted to permanent contracts (=CDI in France) in Pigment?Let’s take an example :In my transaction list, I have Employee1 which is intern with an end date on Dec, 31st 2024. He comes back as a permanent contract starting January 1st 2025 (with no end date). In my FTE calculation metric, the term date metric is calculated with :if(isnotblank('Employee Transactions'.'Term Date'[by last:'Employee Transactions'.'[Pigment] Name','Employee Transactions'.'Load Month']),'Employee Transactions'.'Term Date' [by last:'Employee Transactions'.'[Pigment] Name','Employee Transactions'.'Load Month'],previous(Month))The last load concerning employee1 does not have a load date, as he is a permanent contract. However, as I have  “previous month” in my formula, it takes into account an end date. So my Employee1 is counted as 0 on January. Would you have some formulas to advise for this case ? ThanksVenitia

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Stef
Employee
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
Gali BaramNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Dates exported incorrectly through gsheet connector

I’m running into an issue with the dates getting mixed-up when I load data from Pigment to google sheets (see the formula bar in the screenshot, the date ). The issue is that the title which is a text field appears as the header, and gets translated to a date incorrectly. I tried switching the header in Pigment, but the start/end date fields aren’t listed as options. Did anyone else encounter this? Any suggested solutions? 

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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
Spandan98
Seasoned Pigmenteer
Spandan98Seasoned Pigmenteer
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Concatenate Dimension Type Metrics - Convert Dimension type metrics to text type

Hello Pigment Community,I need help converting dimension-type metrics into text and concatenating them into another metric.For example, in the screenshot I provided, I want the "Concat" metric for Row A to display "Asste1Con1".How can I achieve this? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.Thanks in advance!  

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Min Li Bright Point
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FPA
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syncing context pages across multiple tabs

Hi, we have users that work on multiple boards at the same time that share common pages selectors.The challenge here is that when we switch from one dimension element to another on the page selector in one tab, we need to go through each other tab to adjust the page to the newly selected element. As people here work with like 10 tabs in parallel, that s a lot of clicks to update boards and have them being synced.Do you people encounter those kind of usage / challenge ?Are there ways to make this work in pigment and how if you experimented it ?I was thinking maybe using a custom user defined variable ?

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Employee
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
mmcgrathNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Remove a dimension from a chart while maintaining the calculated item from that dimension

Hello, I have created a calculated item cumulating totals by week for a month. I would like to show the cumulative total of each week on a chart, without showing that week’s individual total. In the example below, I would like to remove the lighter blue “Jan 25” value, and keep the calculated item - the cumulative total by week. Is there a way I can do this?  Thank you!   

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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
geoff_chovazNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Unshare block

Is there a way to unshare a block if it hasn’t been used yet? I accidentally shared a block I didn’t want to, and in the block settings->library the share toggle is greyed out. It says it’s being used somewhere else, but also says “Not Used” beside it. 

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Min Li Bright Point
Misbah
Seasoned Pigmenteer
MisbahSeasoned Pigmenteer
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Dynamic Variable not Updated Page Selectors

Is there a bug in Dynamic variable?I have a metric with Year format and This year populates the actual months. When I apply this variable it doesn’t update variable in page selectors instantaneously. Instead I have to wait for a minute or two to see it get applied Or we need to refresh the browser url or application in order for it to make work. Is this the intended behaviour or Am I missing anything?Appreciate your responses!  Thanks,Misbah  

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Hugo Delaby
Community Manager
Thu Mai
Thu MaiKeen Learner
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Ability to add multiple metrics with same dimensions at the same time

Hi Pigmenteers 🤗I have an input table with 10 input metrics (same dimensions, serve the same purpose). I know how to create them 1 by 1 directly from the table (more convenient), but I’m curious whether there is a way in Pigment we can create them all at the same time? 🤔

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Sharon Conroy
Budding Pigmenteer
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Budding Pigmenteer
MohanBudding Pigmenteer
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Extract Day from a date in text format

Hello,I have a Date field called “Delivery Date” (Ex : 10/06/2024). From here, I want to extract the day of the week in text format (Example :10/06/2024 is “Monday”) and my calculated field should show similar to the example here. I tried WEEKDAY(‘Delivery Date’) and it returns day of the week but in number format and I tried again TEXT(WEEKDAY(‘Delivery date”), again it does not work. How to convert weekday into Text format like Mon,Tue,etc…? thanksMohan

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Sharon Conroy
Budding Pigmenteer
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Just Arrived
Charlotte BJust Arrived
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New application

I can find the blue buttom “New application”

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Min Li Bright Point
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Just Arrived
Idris BUIJust Arrived
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Pre-fill item creation form with filters

Hello everyone, when creating a new item in a P&L, is it possible to pre-fill the item creation form with the filters applied on the page ? (for instance Entity / Current budget phase)

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oliverlee
Seasoned Pigmenteer
Thu Mai
Thu MaiKeen Learner
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Sparse Engine concept

Hi Pigmenteers!While I’m taking Pigment trainings and explore my personal application, I figure out that there is no information about the size of my application or total number of cells, etc.. and the reason behind is that Pigment is a sparse engine.Therefore, can you help explain to me more about the concept of sparse engine - what is a sparse engine, how does it actually work and what is the benefit compared to non-sparse engine?

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Thu Mai
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
AdelgoNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Widget Text Format

Hello,Is it possible to change the format of a text Widget ? → Background color→ Text Size→ Text Color→ Center the text in the boxIf not, when do you plan to develop this feature ? ThanksAdèle

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Sharon Conroy
Budding Pigmenteer
abhilashsawla
abhilashsawlaPigment Academic
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How to turn off Share Toggle in Scenarios

Hi, Please let us know how to turn of Shared Scenarios. 

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Sharon Conroy
Budding Pigmenteer
Trever Leavenworth
Seasoned Pigmenteer
Trever LeavenworthSeasoned Pigmenteer
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Modifiers not applying as expected

Hello! I’m attempting to aggregate my metrics into a full P&L with actual and forecast views. I have data coming from a Shared_IS_Actuals dimension, several Revenue and COGS dimensions already mapped, a Shared_WF_Plan dimension, and a Shared_Opex_Plan dimension. I’ve been able thus far to successfully have Actuals for all IS accounts pull in, and have Revenue, COGS, and WF (payroll, benefits, taxes) appear in a single metric. However, when I try to add my Shared_Opex_Plan data using the formula below, my Actuals stay, my revenue and cogs disappear, my WF_Plan stays, and my Opex_Plan disappears, leaving me with only the WF_Plan.  It’s like the first by modifier to map the WF_Plan to the CoA is applying to everything? What am I missing?  

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Sharon Conroy
Budding Pigmenteer
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
YaejisNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Average If

Hi! Can you please help me to find average amount if the end of week month is same? Thank you!  

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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
Y
Newly Minted Pigmenteer
YaejisNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Week # of the Year

Hi!  I am trying to setup my report table to show Week # of the Year. I assume Week # needs to be created in the Week Dimension. Could you help me with the formula? I would like Monday-based weeks.  ​​​​ My final goal is to add Week # before Week property in the table.   ExampleThank you!

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Y
Newly Minted Pigmenteer
E
Seasoned Pigmenteer
ElodieSeasoned Pigmenteer
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Conditional formatting based on previous month

Hi everyone!I am trying to add a conditional formatting in my headcount metric in order to highlight when the number of employees increases or decreases from month to month. I cannot find any option in the conditional formatting that allows me to do so... Could you please help me finding the best solution if anyone has already faced this issue? 🤗Thanks!

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Sharon Conroy
Budding Pigmenteer
Lehtohen
Budding Pigmenteer
LehtohenBudding Pigmenteer
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YTD Calculations Wrong when Showing Values as %

Hello Community, I am struggling with YTD summaries for %-values. In image 1 I have lines for Revenue and Costs and then I have added metric “Costs” for a second time and I am showing the value as % of Revenue. Image 1When I add YTD calculations (Image 2), I have an issue that also the “% of Revenue (Costs)” seems to be cumulating when in fact it should be always calculated as Costs/Revenue. This means that for February YTD (ACT) shows -2.20 % (= -1.30 % + -0.90 %) instead of the calculated values, which should be -1.11 % (= -4 664 / 419 306). Image 2Is it possible to keep the YTD calculations for other metrics, but use a “formula”-calculation for the %-metrics? In case it is any help, here is also a image of how I have pivoted the data. Image 3 

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Sharon Conroy
Budding Pigmenteer
agnar
Seasoned Pigmenteer
agnarSeasoned Pigmenteer
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Change formatting of all rows in tables

In a table, the row headings (the pivoted fields that you can view either in Tabular or Tree layout) are by default formatted with dark grey font on a light grey background. But if I want it to make it *pop* I can’t think of other way than to go row-by-row and go through the menu:Is there a better way?

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Sharon Conroy
Budding Pigmenteer

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