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AttrPutS TM1 Function: Use and Syntax

Posted on Mar 18, 2015 by John

AttrPutS is a TM1 Turbo Integrator function that inserts a string onto a specific attribute for the current element in a specified dimension. Note this does not insert a value…

AttrPutS TM1 Function: Use and Syntax

Posted on Mar 18, 2015 by John

AttrPutS is a TM1 Turbo Integrator function that inserts a string onto a specific attribute for the current element in a specified dimension. Note this does not insert a value…

AttrPutS TM1 Function: Use and Syntax

Posted on Mar 18, 2015 by John

AttrPutS is a TM1 Turbo Integrator function that inserts a string onto a specific attribute for the current element in a specified dimension. Note this does not insert a value…

DimensionSortOrder TM1 Function: Use and Syntax

Posted on Mar 18, 2015 by John

DimensionSortOrder is used to sort a dimension from within a Turbo Integrator (TI) process. Syntax of DimensionSortOrder The syntax is: DimensionSortOrder ( DimName , CompSortType , CompSortSense , ElSortType , ElSortSense); …

How to Pad a Variable Length Element in TM1

Posted on Mar 18, 2015 by John

Often we have a situation were we want to create a dimension with the contents of a code from a source system.  Sometimes, however the IDs in the source system are…

Attributes in TM1

Posted on Mar 16, 2015 by John

I have been using attributes since I started working with TM1 and are often asked what are they and what are they used for. What are Attributes in TM1 TM1…

TI Error: Cannot convert field number 9

Posted on Mar 12, 2015 by John

I was working on a new TI process today and got this error – “Cannot convert field number 9, value “*textdata*” to a real number”. Odd, I thought. Cryptic error…

Planning Analytics Backups: How to Create an Effective CX and TM1 Backup Strategy

Posted on Mar 11, 2015 by John

Backing up your TM1 and/or Planning Analytics environment is vital.  Without it, you potentially could lose months of work and cost your organisation a motza.  Good disaster recovery planning will…

ItemSkip TM1 Function: Use and Syntax

Posted on Mar 3, 2015 by John

ITEMSKUP is a Turbo Integrator function that forces the current record being read from a data source to be skipped. Syntax of ITEMSKIP The syntax is just ITEMSKIP; – real simple…

SUBST TM1 Function (like Excel MID or SQL Server SUBSTR): Use and Syntax

Posted on Mar 1, 2015 by John

The SUBST function is essentially the same as the Excel MID function or the SQL Server SUBSTR function, in that it allows you to select a group of characters of  a specified…

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