Category: Documentation
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How to create blueprints with Arc
The Blueprints tool allows you to manage and create blueprints for your TM1 application. Blueprints provide a structured way to define best practice techniques and generate boilerplate code to implement them. Think of Blueprints as templates “on steroids”! Getting Started To access the Blueprints tool: You can also access Blueprints from the “Create Process” dialog…
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Building Fast Excel Reports with Slice
Many companies transitioning from an on-premise TM1 installation to IBM Planning Analytics (PA) on the cloud can face performance challenges. A common issue is the noticeable difference in refresh times for excel reports between their previous setup using Perspectives and the new PA on the cloud with PAfE (Planning Analytics for Excel). A recent case…
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Migrating cube data
Starting with Pulse v6.5.1, cube data can be migrated using the Live option. It means that you can migrate cube data between two TM1 instances without having to restart the instance. Option to include cube data When creating a new migration package, the option Include Cube Data needs to be ticked as below: Then after…
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How to Install the PowerConnect License
The PowerConnect connector does not need a license. Only the PowerConnect service requires a license. To install the PowerConnect service license, just go to the conf folder where the PowerConnect service is installed and put the License.xml file there: Then you just need to restart the PowerConnect Service.
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Pushing Pulse VCS folder into a remote GIT
Pulse is constantly tracking changes made by IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) developers. These changes are stored in a local vcs folder. It is possible to send these changes into a remote GIT repository. To do that, a script is available inside the vcs folder: About the aunthentication: GitRemotePush uses the windows credential helper of git,…
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PowerConnect Hands-on
The objective of this hands-on manual is to help you getting started with Cubewise PowerConnect, the complete Power BI Connector for IBM Planning Analytics (TM1). PowerConnect helps you getting your data, metadata and security from TM1 into Power BI. In this user manual you will learn: This manual is available to download for free by…
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PowerConnect Architecture
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PowerConnect Prerequisites
System Configuration Hardware: Operating System: Microsoft Azure App Registration For OAuth2 authentication, a Microsoft Azure App API App needs to be registered. The required scope for the app is User.Read. Admin consent needs to be applied. The redirect URL for the app is An Azure tenant admin usually does the App registration. Network Configuration for…
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PowerConnect Service Installation Guide
Prerequisites Windows Administrator credentials are required to complete this setup. Installation Click on “Next”. Read the license agreement, then click on “Agree”. Choose the Authentiaction Mode for Microsoft Power BI Desktop: Select the desired components. Enter the Base URL of the PowerConnect Server: Select the installation location. Default is “C:\Program Files\PowerConnect”. After the files…
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Getting started with Pulse v6 or v7
Pulse v6 was rebuilt using the REST API allowing a single Pulse Application Server to monitor many TM1 servers. This version includes many new features such as the Pulse Explorer (bringing a new way to easily view what is happening on all your TM1 instances second per second) and support for hierarchies.