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Jared Dolich
Seasoned Pigmenteer
Jared DolichSeasoned Pigmenteer
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Align Block Exercise - Values aren't adding up right?

Hi. I just finished the Align Block Dimensions for Formula Operations exercise. In the final table, we are to add the four metrics we created. No problem. But, when I look at the table my bonus metric does not match the “solution”. When I check the data, it adds up correctly to year and the formulas match. Any suggestions? Same formula. Did I miss a stop in the course? I didn’t see any instructions on how to build this table, so i’m kind of winging it.Here’s my result:Here’s the solution: 

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CDALMAY
6 months ago
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
Rahul KumarNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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R&D Capitalization Schedule

Hi All, I am trying to create a R&D cost Capitalization schedule and need some help. Essentially which I am trying to do is spread the cost over 3 years but then add the incremental monthly amount as well. For example: If Jan 2024, my R&D cost is $1200 and  $2400 for Feb, then I should see $100 (1200 / 12) for Jan 2024 till Dec 2024 and for Feb cost, it should be $300 ($2400/12 + 100). I hope i am clear in my ask. Thanks

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CDALMAY
6 months ago
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
Moosa MalickNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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How to Calculate MoM Change Using Formula

Hi, I am trying to calculate the MoM change in a metric, I know there is an option of ‘Show Value As’, but that just creates a view on top of the existing numbers and does not perform a calculation on the cells. Is there a way I could do a MoM change using a formula?  Thanks

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CDALMAY
6 months ago
Jared Dolich
Seasoned Pigmenteer
Jared DolichSeasoned Pigmenteer
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To See Block Size - Full Read Needed?

Hi Pigment Community. So, it just occurred to me as I’m going through the courses that I cannot tell if I’m creating blocks/metrics that are too big. I read an article by @Samya Barkaoui on block building best practices that mentioned I need full read access to see these statistics. Is that correct? Who do I contact to obtain this and is this something that modelers don’t normally need in Pigment?

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Issam Moalla
Employee
6 months ago
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Budding Pigmenteer
connorsmithBudding Pigmenteer
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"Failed to acquire a shared lock during metric creation" Error Message

I have recently been getting the following error message semi frequently:“Failed to acquire a shared lock during metric creation”It is mostly happening when I am trying to edit P2P imports (ie. within a Metric, click Import Data, click Edit on an existing import configuration)Anyone know what this means?

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Employee
7 months ago
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Budding Pigmenteer
Kamil SobczakBudding Pigmenteer
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Fx management in Pigment - Workoforce app

Hi Everyone, We would like to have an easy workflow and process for compering Budget USD salaries at budget FX rates vs Budget USD salaries at actual FX rates. Is it a right approach to create a FX version dimension like FX actuals, FX forecast, FX budget etc? Or is it more efficient to utilise our current Version dimension and once we have a budget version we just make a copy of it and update FX rates in that version based on actuals to get the re-calculated USD budgeted salaries as per most recent rates? So the use case is: having an easy way to understand the FX impact in the BvA report.Example:Employee with 10,000 EUR salaryBudget EUR/USD rate: 1.2Budget USD: 12,000 USD salaryNetsuite Actuals EUR: 10,000 EUR salary (same)Netsuite EUR/USD rate: 1.3Actuals USD: 13,000 USD SalaryBvA = (1000) USDWe would like to then easily explain to budget holders that this 1,000 USD overspend is pure FX and not their "real" action on spending more. Thanks!

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Nathan
Employee
7 months ago
Keiran
Community Manager
KeiranCommunity Manager
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Finding specific text in a string

This was asked internally, and I thought I’d share the answer in case it’s of use to others!If you have a specific term you want to look for, in this case ‘Intern’, it can come up in Position names, but you may get false flags for longer words like ‘International’To identify these, I’ve created an IF statement that checks if the term is in use by checking for the trailing space, or checking if it’s the last word in use. First, use RIGHT, with 6 being the number of characters required to identify the word.RIGHT(Positions.Name,6) Second, look for the word “Intern “ including the trailing space.IF(CONTAINS("Intern ", Positions.Name), TRUE, FALSE) Then you just need to nest these to make one formulaIF(RIGHT(Positions.Name,6) = "Intern", TRUE, IF(CONTAINS("Intern ", Positions.Name), TRUE, FALSE)) It even works with International Interns! 

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KarlW
Community Manager
7 months ago
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
MarieJNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Formula timed out due to dimension list too long

Bonjour, Je suis face à une difficulté et le message d’erreur ‘Formula timed out’ sur mon P&L; J’ai un metric qui calcule mon Budget P&L à partir de plusieurs sources (Revenue, Coût, HR, etc.) ; j’aimerais créer un autre metric reprenant le P&L avec une dimension en plus (une dimension Fournisseur présente uniquement sur les coûts) ; grâce à laquelle je peux voir mes coûts à la granularité fournisseur directement dans le P&L.J’ai donc modifié la structure du metric (en rajoutant la dimension fournisseurs, et modifié la formule avec des ADD sur les autres metrics alimentant cette dernière) ; néanmoins je retombe systématiquement sur un message formula timed out > 3 minutes. Je suppose que c’est lié à ma liste fournisseur (qui est longue) , mais je ne vois pas comment faire pour optimiser la formule ? 

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CDALMAY
7 months ago
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BenedikteOccasional Observer
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Error during formula computation. Some values overflows 10^14

Hi, I have been getting this error message in my formulas, and need some help to solve this, anyone that have knowledge of this error?  Thank you very much in advance!Regards,Benedikte

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7 months ago
Rasagya
Newly Minted Pigmenteer
RasagyaNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Pigment to Workday integration (sending data to Workday)

Hi all - we currently have an integration set up to bring in data from Workday to Pigment. We are now looking to explore how we can export data from Pigment back into Workday to create a closed-loop integration. Anyone familiar with this set up? Would love to connect to see how we can set this up. Thanks!

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Julien
Community Manager
7 months ago
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
cayleybNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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How do I hide empty rows and columns in google sheets export?

When saving views and using the Pigment Connector to export them to google sheets, I’m unable to retain the “hide empty rows and columns” filtering selection. Is this a feature in Pigment or are there plans to add this feature any time soon? Thanks!

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CDALMAY
7 months ago
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
MarieJNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Board access

Hi there ;  I’m trying to find a way to give access to only one board of an application ; To be more specific :  I have the application "Budget", where the overall budget of the company is. In this application, I have multiple boards and I want to give access to (2 people) to only one of the boards (where they will find their own budget) but I don't want them to see the other boards (they don't have to see them). How should I do it ? Thx in advance 

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Benoit
Community Manager
7 months ago
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
Gabriel OrtizNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Calculating total price of subscription based on tiers

Hello Pigment community,I have a list of different clients that depending on the amount of users they are charged a different price based on tiers. Currently we do the process with an excel model that calculates the total price of the subscription based on a table that looks like this with the IFS formula:I would like to do this automatically on Pigment but I don’t know how to set it up so that based on the amount of users it multiplies such user for the correct price. Another limitation is that as you can see in the table there is the price of the Core service, and then there are different options that the clients can subscribe to. Therefore I also need pigment to multiply the usage by the correct options depending on what options each client has subscribed to. Currently in excel we do it by the means of this table: As you can see we use 1 as true and 0 as false. Thank you in advance,Gabriel

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G
Newly Minted Pigmenteer
7 months ago
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
cayleybNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Copying Saved Views from Metrics to Tables

Several times I’ve run into this… I think I can solve my problem by just manipulating a new view of a metric. Then I realize I need to combine several metrics. When I finally create a table I have to completely recreate the filters, summing, and pivoting in a table. Is there a way to duplicate a view in a metric into a newly created table? This would be very helpful!

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Nathan
Employee
7 months ago
Ola
Seasoned Pigmenteer
OlaSeasoned Pigmenteer
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Issues with time aggregations

I have a board with year as a filter on top of the board and it is possible to select multiple years in this filter. On my board I also have a KPI that should show outgoing HC for the last month based on the selected years. When I look at my data with Years on the rows it looks like the picture below when I use “Last” as time aggregator.However when I remove years from the rows all values are blank. If I change the time aggregator to “Last Non Blank” it shows me values, but the problem is that “Last Non Blank” doesn’t always give me the values for dec in the last year, it returns the cells shown in the second picture below. It feels like a bug that the cells are blank when using “Last” as aggregator in this case or am I doing something wrong?  

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Ola
Seasoned Pigmenteer
7 months ago
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
Tomer.ANewly Minted Pigmenteer
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The Case for a Native Athena AWS-Pigment Connector

In our organization, we use S3 to store data as parquet files and work with Athena AWS. Currently, with Pigment's import mechanism based solely on integrated CSV files, we are compelled to establish a process that converts our parquet files into CSV. This isn't a favored method by our (BD&D) Team, to say the least. I can also elaborate on the pros of using the native connector to Athena AWS:Improved Efficiency: A native connector eliminates the need to convert parquet files to CSV for import into Pigment. This can significantly reduce the time and resources spent on file conversion, leading to improved efficiency in data operations. Enhanced Data Quality: Using a native connector can reduce the potential for data errors or loss that might occur during the file conversion process. Streamlined Process: Integration with Athena AWS via a native connector simplifies the data workflow, making getting data from S3 storage into Pigment easier and quicker. Increased Flexibility: A native co

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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
7 months ago
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
WillENewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Allocate Product Groups down to Product level by % Mix

Hi - I’m new to Pigment having spent many years working with TM1 and am struggling with some of the new concepts and methods ! - Trying to find a way to allocate multiple Product Groups down to the Product level. I have the product mix % by Product Group but can’t find a way to only multiply the mix within each Product Group. In simple terms its:-IF (Product.Group (property of Product) = Product Group (Dimension) THEN Product Group* % Mix of Product in that Product Group.I was able to get it to work if I hard coded one Product Group (Type) but can’t find way to make dynamic on all product groups. Sales_By_Product_Group  [Select: '02a.Product Type'.Type = "Barbecue"]*IF('02.Product'.Type = "Barbecue",'02.Product'.'% of Product Group Sales',0)In short is there a way to replace “Barbecue” so it iterates through all the Product Groups (Types) ?  Thank you all !

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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
7 months ago
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Seasoned Pigmenteer
DastanSeasoned Pigmenteer
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Adding empty rows in Tables

Hi Pigment team, I’m trying to add empty rows into my Table block, so that I can separate some categories of expenses from each other: I tried to create and add empty “Placeholder” Metric, however it requires a name and I can’t simply leave it empty. Is there another way to add such empty rows between items? Best,Dastan 

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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
7 months ago
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
charles.louis-lucasNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Import données format texte (nombre avec symbole)

Bonjour,Après un import des données, nous avons une colonne avec des montants incluant des symboles concernant les devises. Existe-t-il une solution pour récupérer seulement le nombre en dehors des différents symboles sans avoir a créer une liste de ces derniers ? Exemples : 100,000.00 € ; 100,000.00 kr ; 100,000.00 $ ; etc…Merci par avance,Charles

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C
Newly Minted Pigmenteer
7 months ago
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
Jessica TNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Connector: Gsheet with Pigment

Bonjour, Je voudrais savoir si ce serait possible lors d’un extract de Pigment à Google sheet via le connector de ne pas avoir des lignes vides? Ex: Lors d’un extract avec le connector, j’ai 30.000 lignes et sur ses 30.000 lignes j’ai 10.000 lignes utilent et qui contiennent des valeurs. Cela alourdi énormément les fichiers de travail.Dans les tables (extracts) dans Pigment, il y a une possibilité de filtrer et de mettre (Hide empty rows and columns). Ceci empêche d’avoir des milliers de lignes vides pas utiles.Dans l’attente d’un retour, veuillez passer une belle journée :).Cordialement.TEGUA Jessica.

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J
Newly Minted Pigmenteer
7 months ago
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
Rahul KumarNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Using Scenarios in Formula

Hello Everyone, I am working on a headcount report where in I have Actuals and Budget along with the variance.  Now I want to reference scenarios in the formulas somehow to create a metric to use this logic: If Actuals is blank and Budget is there, it means that that seat is not filled yet. Is there anyway to do it?

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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
7 months ago
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Budding Pigmenteer
NachoBudding Pigmenteer
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Build BP from growth assumptions

I’m trying to start making hypotheses for next year's BP based on percentage growth.I started with Revenue but I find myself with the following problem that I am not able to solve.I simply want to formulate that the Revenue, for example, of January 2024 is that of January of the previous year  *  % growth. This % I have entered into a metric that I have created where I have put a % growth for each month of the year 24. However, I do not want the Revenue metrics already established in Pigment to vary or be modified, since they are the ones that give us our Revenue figures for different versions (actuals, forecast, target, etc.).Basically, what I want is to filter the information to which I want this % of growth to be applied, which in this case is only for the year 2024

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Nathan
Employee
7 months ago
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
PaylwardNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Advanced Modeling Skills

Hello,I am working on a business case where I need to take the data and create some sophisticated business items.  I want to see the forecast at different levels by who is inputting it and how to confirm the forecast is done. Here are some of the things that need to come out of the data that is provided.Alignment between top-down and bottom-up revenue targets. Consistent driver-based approach to cost planning, particularly around travel costs. Showing if forecast has been entered and how to change/override that number.Any help would be great.

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Nathan
Employee
7 months ago
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
Not Jeremy SternNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Aggregate vs. Import for Parent/Child Dimension Relationship

We have two dimensions that have a parent/child relationship - L0 Company and L1 Parent Company. For the exercise, here are some details:L0 has 500,000 items, L1 has 400,000 items This property will be upstream of a fairly complex cohorted revenue model Both dimensions are provided to us from Snowflake The date formatted property “First ARR Date” exists at the L0 Company levelWe need First ARR Date in L1 Parent Company in Pigment, what is the preferred way to do this to maximize performance?Aggregate from L0 to L1 in Pigment using a BY MIN Aggregate in Snowflake & import the First ARR Date into both our L0 and L1 dimensions A third option?Further, would the right way to do this change if the balance of list items between lists changed?

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BrunoRodriguez
Employee
7 months ago
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Budding Pigmenteer
AdamBudding Pigmenteer
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Picking a dimension property dependently on scenario

Hi Pigment Experts, I have the following challenge. I have two properties in a an Employee dimension list (Department_Apr and Department_Mar). Employees may move between departments and these properties are reflecting that. Then I have a metric by Employee which I want to pivot by Department. I use the formula below and it works well. My question is is there a way to write formula so the metrics is either by Department_Apr or Department_May dependently on a Scenario i.e. dependently on input to another metric? The way it works now is that Department_Apr or Deparment_Mar are hardcoded but how to make these values a variable?  if('Is Forecast (Headcount)', '361. Total Headcount Cost - A+F') [remove: '01. Payroll Waterfall', '01. Headcount Cost Account'][select: '01. FinType'."P&L"][select: '01. Version' = 'Version Push'] //."Mar Month End"][filter: '01. Employee ID'.OperRepairs = '01. Operations/Repairs'."N"  and '01. Employee ID'.RetailTR = '01. Retail Branch / TR'."N"][by: '01. Emp

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Mat
Employee
7 months ago

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