Rule Best Practices

Picklists, Rule Best Practices, TM1 Case Studies

Cascading Picklists in TM1 – How to Create in 4 Steps

Cascading Picklists in TM1 are a great way to limit long lists from being displayed to users for selection. Here we explain exactly how to create them.

Rule Best Practices

Calculating “As At” Values in a TM1 Rule

Have you ever needed to calculate the value “as at” a point in time? For example, you have…

Rule Best Practices, Rule Case Studies

How to Roll Forward Values from One Period to the Next in TM1

Accumulating values in TM1 over multiple years. Cumulative values are very useful in a rolling forecast or cash flow calculation model. This shows in detail how to create a cumulative values with colour coded examples.

Feeders, Rule Best Practices, Rule Case Studies, Rule Functions

How to Dynamically Assign Information based on Data Entry

How to create a planning model where users can enter or select variables in one location and TM1 then assigns the data dynamically to all required dimensions. For example, in a budgeting model to plan labour centrally and assign people to cost centres dynamically.

Feeders, Rule Best Practices

Feeding from a Consolidation to a Leaf Element in TM1

How, in TM1/Planning Analytics, to feed from a consolidated element in one cube to a leaf element in another cube using a single consolidation feeder with a worked example.

Attributes, Rule Best Practices, Rule Case Studies

Days in Month – How to Easily Calculate in a TM1 Rule

Here we explain how to calculate the number of days in each month with a simple, but easy rule, using the DAYNO function and a Next Month attribute.

Rule Best Practices, Rule Case Studies

Foreign Exchange (FX) Calculation in TM1

Simple foreign exchange conversion method for use in TM1. Convert multiple currencies to multiple currencies easily using a simple FX rates cube and lookup of a cost centre or entity.

Rule Best Practices, Rule Functions