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Budding Pigmenteer
MaxenceGoigBudding Pigmenteer
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Impact of CSV Uploads on Historical Data in Pigment

Hi,We have a data table on Pigment that we update daily with new data by uploading a CSV file.The CSV contains data from January 1, 2021, and every day the new daily data is added to the file before being uploaded to Pigment.I wanted to know if CSV uploads delete the old data and then completely update everything, or if they only push the new data.For example: If tomorrow the file no longer contains data starting from January 1, 2021, but instead starts from January 1, 2022, will we still retain the 2021 data in our source list in Pigment when I upload this new file, or will it be deleted?If the historical data is deleted, is there a way to push the new data every day without deleting the old one?Thanks in advance!

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Keiran
Community Manager
Bill Rausch
Budding Pigmenteer
Bill RauschBudding Pigmenteer
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Link to Data Import on Board

Is there a way to get a link that I can put on a board to get to the Import Data screen? 

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Sharon Conroy
Budding Pigmenteer
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
Jessica TNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Conditional formatting

Hello,Can you please tell me how I can make a conditional formatting based on another column? Ex: I have column A & B and I want column A figures to change colors depending of it they are greater or lower than column B figures.Also, how can I center figures in a table on Pigment, if that is possible. Thanks.

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Sharon Conroy
Budding Pigmenteer
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adhainOccasional Observer
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Notification when a change is made

Hi All!Is there a way someone can get notified when a change is made automatically?In headcount planning, we want the HR director to be notified when someone has requested a new head. I appreciate there’s the option of writing a comment, but wondered if theres an automatic way?Thanks

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Sharon Conroy
Budding Pigmenteer
Spandan98
Seasoned Pigmenteer
Spandan98Seasoned Pigmenteer
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Data Access rights for specific columns in Pigment

Dear Pigment Community,I hope you're doing well!I am currently facing two challenges in my Pigment setup and would greatly appreciate your guidance: Freezing Data Entry for Weekends & Holidays: I would like to restrict data entry for weekends (e.g., 06/01/2024 and 07/01/2024) and holidays (which I will updating in a different dimension) while keeping data entry open for other days. This restriction should apply consistently for all weekends throughout the year. Customizing Date Formats in Column Headers: I want to display the date in the column header in the format: 6th Jan 2024 and 7th Jan 2024 (instead of the default format). This format should be applied consistently across all dates throughout the year. If anyone has suggestions, solutions, or best practices for implementing these features, I would greatly appreciate your input!Thank you in advance for your help! 

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Matt D
Employee
Spandan98
Seasoned Pigmenteer
Spandan98Seasoned Pigmenteer
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Date and Employee Mapping in Pigment

Hello Pigment community,I want to map the two tables such that I can map the sales of manager mapped according to their end date and start date, and list their sales according to the employees under them.I am attaching the assignment screenshot below, please kindly help me.Thanks!  

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Keiran
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AdamOccasional Observer
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Circular adjustment

Hi, I have the following challenge:Metric 1. simple metric with sales forecast in units with one dimension only MONTH. So let’s say it is Jan: 20; Feb: 30; Mar: 20; Apr: 15 Metric 2. active orders already made e.g. 35 with no dimension at all, just one number.  Now I need to adjust Metric 1 with Metric 2 applying the rule that earlier months are adjusted as first. I.e. adjusted forecast would be: Jan: 0; Feb: 15; Mar: 20; Apr: 15How do I do it in Pigment? Regards,Adam

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Keiran
Community Manager
Spandan98
Seasoned Pigmenteer
Spandan98Seasoned Pigmenteer
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Creating a working calendar with holidays marked in Pigment

Hello Pigment community,How can I create a working calendar with holidays marked as the attached image below.Please kindly help me in this project. I hope you will do the needful. Thanks!Thanks! 

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francois
Employee
Spandan98
Seasoned Pigmenteer
Spandan98Seasoned Pigmenteer
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Count number of duplicate items in metric

Hello Pigment Community,I’m currently facing an issue with counting duplicate items in Pigment. As shown in the image below, I’ve successfully extracted words from a sentence. Now, I’d like to conditionally format and highlight repeated words starting from their second occurrence.I understand that using a counter to track how often a word appears is key here, but I’m struggling to come up with the correct formula to achieve this.Could someone kindly guide me on how to proceed? Your help would be greatly appreciated!Thanks in advance!  

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CDALMAY
Ola
Seasoned Pigmenteer
OlaSeasoned Pigmenteer
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Combine "Show value as" with aggregations

We have created an income statement where we have one metric for Income and another metric for COGS. Both these metrics is by the dimension Account and in our table we use Account Group and Account on the Rows which gives us a  dynamic income statement where it is possible to expand and collapse rows to see the hierarchy:- Income      - Account Group              -AccountOur challenge is that we like to have the exact same view that shows us Income and COGS per Order. We can achieve this by using “Show value as” to show our metrics in relation to total number of orders and it also works fine when filtering the table by Location or Subsidiary. However, show value as does not work in combination with grouping by Account Group and Account, since number of  orders is not by account. If we add the dimension Account to our metric for Number of  orders we can get it right on the lowest level, but in this case the aggregations by account and account group becomes wrong. Is there any workaround

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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
Spandan98
Seasoned Pigmenteer
Spandan98Seasoned Pigmenteer
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Resources to become an expert in Pigment

Hello Pigment Community,I’m new to Pigment and eager to become an expert in using the platform. To accelerate my learning journey, I would greatly appreciate your help with the following:Practice Assignments: A list of exercises or projects, starting from beginner to advanced levels, that I can work on to build and refine my Pigment skills. Video Tutorials: Resources or video walkthroughs demonstrating how to implement large-scale projects in Pigment.Having access to these resources would significantly enhance my understanding and hands-on experience.If anyone can point me in the right direction or share relevant materials, I’d be incredibly grateful! Looking forward to learning from this amazing community.Thank you so much for your time and support!

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Spandan98
Seasoned Pigmenteer
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
HarshilNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Dynamic Variable Not Updating by Scenario

I created a dynamic variable called “TvA Actuals Range” and set it equal to the “IsActuals” date range. The issue is that the date range is not updating based on the scenario. Can you please advise?

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CDALMAY
JDLove
JDLoveOccasional Observer
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Hub Shared Dimensions not showing in Application Metric Settings

Basic newbie question, I have a sample Hub that has the shared dimensions, I am building a test application but I cannot seem to get the shared dimensions to show as options in the Metric Settings. I can see the Hub Dimensions are showing as shared.I can see the Hub Application is showing as shared.Thanks JDLove 

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JDLove
Spandan98
Seasoned Pigmenteer
Spandan98Seasoned Pigmenteer
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Quarter and Year dimensionality problem

How to add a grid on a board with input fields? For example I have data for quarters and I want to set targets of a year which can be entered by the user on a board. How can I achieve this?

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Spandan98
Seasoned Pigmenteer
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
YaejisNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Amortization based on start/end dates

Hi Pigment team! I am trying to setup a amortization schedule as following. Can you please help?Orange is given resources Green is the output that I would like to have in the table/metric Blue is just validation for myself which aligns with the orange Total column and doesn’t need to be in the model   Following is the formula I used in excel:For 1/31/2023 Column alone, formula is  =($V5/$AS5)*((AV$4-$AQ5)+1) For 2/28/2023 and onwards, formula is  =IF(EOMONTH($AR264,0)<AW$4,0,IF(AW$4<=$AR264,($V264/$AS264)*(TEXT(AW$4,"d")),($V264/$AS264)))   I tried using the following formula in playground for 1/31/2023 column, but it doesn’t seem to work. IF(Month.'Start Date'=DATE(2023,01,1),('RSU Accounting Data'.'Expense Amortized Future'/'RSU Accounting Data'.'Amortization # of Days') * DAY(Month.'End Date')) Thanks for helping out!

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JDLove
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Budding Pigmenteer
BenedikteBudding Pigmenteer
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Error: Unknown Block (List or Metric)

Hi,I am getting an error in my metric that is saying that block that I am referring to is not existing, but in fact it is a block that I am using actively in my management reporting. So I do not understand why it seems like the Block is not possible to retrive.Can someone please help me out regarding this? :)Best regards,Benedikte 

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CDALMAY
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Budding Pigmenteer
MaxenceGoigBudding Pigmenteer
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How to apply a recurring calculation on a metric with a monthly dimension ?

Hi everyone,I need help applying a recurring calculation to a monthly metric in Pigment.Here’s the situation:I have a metric called RES_Active Doctors, and I want to apply month-by-month the percentage stored in IN_Churn Existing Doctors - 3YP. The calculation should use the value of the previous month as the base.For example:If the initial value of RES_Active Doctors in Month 1 is 100, and the percentage in IN_Churn Existing Doctors - 3YP is 10%: Month 1: 100 (initial value) Month 2: 90 (100 - 10%) Month 3: 81 (90 - 10%) Month 4: 72.9 (81 - 10%) And so on. I’m wondering how to model this type of calculation in Pigment. Is there a function or method to automate this logic by referencing the previous period?Thanks a lot for your help! 😊

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Budding Pigmenteer
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pigment_enthusiastKeen Learner
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RANK function - How to handle ties

I have a metric : which has 20, 20, 20 and 15, 11 numbers I need to show Top 2 of the products: It only shows the 2 products with 20 valueIt should show all those  products with 20,20, 20 and 15 value20 is a tie number. 

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William Murray Brown
Budding Pigmenteer
William Murray BrownBudding Pigmenteer
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Dimensions of "seasonality" argument for SEASONAL_LINEAR_REGRESSION

The documentation for the SEASONAL_LINEAR_REGRESSION function states that the “seasonality” argument can have the following dimensions:No Dimension or Dimensions of Text 1I have two questions about this…When I try to use a metric with no dimensions as this argument, I get the error “Function SEASONAL_LINEAR_REGRESSION requires argument 2 to be a positive integer”. What am I doing wrong? The metric where I’m using SEASONAL_LINEAR_REGRESSION has three dimensions (month and two non-time dimensions). What does “Dimensions of Text 1” mean?

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William Murray Brown
Budding Pigmenteer
Dmitrii
Seasoned Pigmenteer
DmitriiSeasoned Pigmenteer
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Month cohort number calculation

I want to calculate the month count starting from the first revenue month for each tenant. I am trying this formula:MONTHDIF(Tenant.cohort_invoice_M.'Start Date', Month.'Start Date')But I am getting an errorFunction MONTHDIF arguments have incompatible Dimensions: Dimensions of argument 1 must be a subset or superset of Dimensions of argument 2 How to fix this?Tenant.cohort_invoice_M has type dimension Month.

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Dmitrii
Seasoned Pigmenteer
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
AravindNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Changing data type of metrics

Hi All,I’m not able to change the data type of ‘User Roles’ metric from Role(local) to Role(Data hub). But when i try to change the data type, I’m getting the following error. Pls advise on this.“Unable to change the structure of a metric used in the security settings. Remove it from the security settings before performing this action.”How do i overcome this error?

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oliverlee
Seasoned Pigmenteer
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
EvlimeNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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I want to set up a dimension from a calculation

Hello community, I am creating a PnL report for our company. At the moment it displays revenue (metric), cost (another metric), gross profit ( metric from formula) and so on. The metrics are derived from a transaction table that I imported.Now I would like to show the total USD and in the coloumn next to it I want to display avg per person. I have calculated the Avg per person and managed to create the same table as above from the avg metrics of the above metrics. BUT because these are metrics, I cannot have them side by side in the table. If I add the avg per person to my total table it will just add all the rows below. I can move upp the “metric” in pivot to columns but then that messes up the revenue, costs, gross profit placement etc.I created a dimension called version and was able to attach that as a property to the total metrics and the avg metrics, but haven’t found a way to union the two metrics with the variant dimensions. So my question is, how can I create a dimension from

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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
Ta-WingNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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How to set up a Map chart - Exclude countries

Exclude CountriesI’m trying to show the Revenue by Country and where countries have nil/zero revenue, how would you Exclude them so even the name doesn’t pop up? I’m wondering is it because my main data set has all countries with the longitude/latitude.

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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
Sokhna Diarra NdiayeNewly Minted Pigmenteer
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Revenue Metric

Hello Everyone,  I want create a revenue metric. I Create all the dimensions and transaction list. When I add a formula there is no problem of dimension, but the value are only in January month. But in my transaction list the Dimension Month is present. I dont understand why all the values are imported in only one month. Here is my formula ( 'Sales History Unit'.unit [By Sum : 'Sales History Unit'.month,  'Sales History Unit'.Customer,  'Sales History Unit'.'Product Group'] )  Thanks a lot 

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Newly Minted Pigmenteer
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Anonymous
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companies change, profile stay?

Hi, I did have my profile on Pigment Community/Academy when working with another company and I'd like to assign this new to the previous to one to not to loose all my previous activity.How can I achieve this?Thanks!

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Keiran
Community Manager

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