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We're working on a solution, where users can enter and view a date through a Cube View using the Cell Type Date. The challenge is how OneStream handles date's (datetime) with time-zones. When a date is saved to the backend, it's converted to UTC time-zone. The Date component in the Cube View is also Time-Zone aware, so that it uses the local time of the user, to convert back from the backend UTC to local-time. The challenge with this is 2 fold: 1) Assuming we would calculate a rent for a given period. The user, based in CET time-zone, enters 2022-1-15 using the Gridview. This date is converted to 2022-1-14 as UTC (2022-1-14 23:00:00). Using a Custom Calculate method to calculate the rent from start (2022-1-15), now adds one day more, as the server time is UTC. (don't mention Daylight Saving Zone)  2) If another user, based in US Central, is reviewing data in the same Grid View (and same POV), this user will see a wrong date, as the server UTC date, is converted to this user's loca

Trying to understand a little more about this instance. This message appears when trying to run a period that has no data. Some questions have emerged around:Can we customize this message? (Thinking no, it is standard OOB message describing what is happening).What is happening? Does the data require consolidating in order to be leveraged? Under what circumstances would you receive this message relating to dashboards?  

Hi All,Let's say we have a table:Fruits (Annotation)                      Updated Fruit Value (annotation)          Price of Fruit (input numerical value)apple                                            banana                                                    $1.99banana                                        kiwi                                                           $2.99strawberry          &nbsp

I have a dashboard with a cubeview in row one and a chart in row two.  I want the chart below to change based on what the user clicks in the cube view.  I was hoping when the user clicks a new cell in the cubeview it would trigger the "Selection Changed Server Task" action but I can not seem to get a rule to run there.   Does anyone know how a BR on a cube view dashboard compoent is triggered?  I was hoping on cell selection but maybe not.  Thanks.

Is there a way, or a best practice recommended, to point an XFGetCell formula to one or multiple members of the same dimension without adding parent level members in the dimension hierarchy? As an example, if we have entities 1 through 5, I'd like to be able to change an input cell to any combination of those and have an XFGetCell function to pull in the sum of all the data points referenced. Currently I'm thinking this would require nested If functions, but that seems like it would quickly get to an unmanageable length as the number of members grows.

Hello, I am trying to use the new menu component within dashboards. I tried using method for command type and entering in the assembly file name for the business rule. However, when doing so it returns an error message that it is invalid. I am wondering what the correct syntax is for using an assembly file within a data adapter as well as the correct method type.I currently have it as follows{BusinessRule}{DataSet}or{Workspace.WorkspaceName.AssemblyName.FileName}{DataSet} 

Hi! Wondering if it possible to build a report book that loops through a list of members, but aggregates results for a parent? If this is possible, how would you setup your loop? Can't seem to get it to work! Example: report results show the total for BIP 1226, and output the same results in a separate report for B1226, B1344, B1489 and B1490 (ideally with these base entity names in the header).    

Is there a way to have the time POV reference a cell (A1) in a spreadsheet?  User wants to have multiple Quick Views and change time once in cell A1 and it update all Quick Views in the workbook.

The client requires us that aggregation is with an average method and not summing (this condition must be applied to all dimensions). For example: Oversea and Europe are aggregating summing (UD4 members), however, the client requires that the aggregation make an average of their children. Note that in column we have metrics (account members) where we need to apply it.The result desired would be 5 %.Thanks in advance.

Hi All,We have a spreadsheet component containing two tabs. One tab has the source data derived from a Table View. The second tab has a Pivot created on the data from First tab. The Pivot Table has "Refresh data when opening the file" checked under Pivot Table Options/Data settings.The source data tab refreshes as expected if TableView output changes based on the spreadsheet component setting. The Pivot table however does not refresh automatically.Is this a known issue ( OneStream spreadsheet component vs Excel) or do we need additional configuration to make it work? 

Hello, Need help! If we import the file using 'BRApi.Utilities.ExecuteFileHarvestBatch', I need to know what folder I need to look at under Batch folder. Not sure which field I need to look at in this table(StageArchivesInformation) to locate the right folder under Batch in OS. Any help will be appreciated. JC

Is there any way to get a superscript for a footnote in a cubeview row header?  Ex: Interest expense1  

Has anyone written a complex expression that takes a date as an input, and determines the period associated with the date, when periods are not based on calendar ends (for example, 4-4-5, or 5-4-4)?There doesn't appear to be a BRApi function for this, but perhaps I'm missing something. Absent a function, what techniques are recommended?Thanks!

I am attempting to create a view in a dashboard for users to be able to see all metadata for each row with that value. Essentially I need to recreate the "Data Records" Report in the database.  I would prefer not to recreate it in SQL via a data adapter, instead use either a Cube View or a Quick view in Spreadsheet.  For the Cube View I can't seem to display more than 12 of the dimensions and would need 16 in the report (Cube and View aren't needed those can be in the POV). For the Quick View in Spreadsheet putting |!prm_Entity!|  returns "#ERROR - The member filter contains unresolved parameters" instead of providing some sort of dialogue box to select the member.  Any suggestions on how to get all dimensions into a Cube View or how to use parameters in the Member Selection in a Quick View would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks

Hello,I'm trying a Derivative Rule where I've one source target account which needs to be mapped to an another account and combination of attributes, the idea is it should create new row for each account attribute, but as I'm using multiple attribute values at once it throwing me an error Please let me know what I'm missing out or what I'm doing wrong from the below expression.A#[56000]=[ABC]:A1#[ACC-*;FTM-*;BTSRR-*;BPR-*;BSC*;CON-*]

Hello,  I recently had help modifying a rule so it would only run once for a multi year scenario, now I am having an issue trying to run the rule on other scenarios.  How would I tell this rule to ignore the time condition for the budget scenario.  The data management job set up on the workflow profile won't currently run due to line of code added: ' NEW CHECK TO ONLY RUN ON THE START YEAR OF WF RANGE TIME.  If I remove it, then the calculation doesn't work for my forecast scenario properly.  I basically somehow need to tell it to ignore that line for the budget scenario.    Below is the full code.  Public Function Main(ByVal si As SessionInfo, ByVal globals As BRGlobals, ByVal api As Object, ByVal args As DataQualityEventHandlerArgs) As Object Try 'Define a switch to control event processing, since many of these are reference examples we do not want them to run all the time Dim processEvents As Boolean = False 'Set the default re

Hi everybody, I would like to schedule an automatic extract of the security (users/groups/roles) I plan to use a data management job and a BR but I cannot find the syntax of the rule. The code "applicationZipFileHelper" does not extract the security, only the application. Thank you for your help  

  Hi, I'm trying to learn more about the business Rules and what they are doing. Where can I find the various function implementations. For Example: I have this function          Dim connectionString As String = GetConnectionString(si, globals, api) For the GetConnectionString function where is the code for this funciton ? so I can read and understand what its doing ? If this is in the API, I have been looking there today, can you reference which folder / document I can get this. Thanks for your help in advance.

Is there any way we can mask the People Planning register data in XFW_PLP_Register Table? The table contains sensitive information like employee salary which cna be accessed by an Non HR Admin.What is the possible solution for this.

Hi Everyone, We recently migrated from 7.1.3 to 8.4 . after migrations, we are facing issue in Calcstatus- Consolidation from Bottom to Top ( Parent).   we tried to consolidated-calcstatus from beginning of the data to till now. But its not running properly or not showing value in parent level. after closing cubeview again its showing CN. is there anyone faced this issue and find the solutions?     

Hi All, I am designing a new app with huge data set at detailed level and need time at weeks level. I would like to know if going by custom profile with time dimension at weeks level would be more efficient or having time dimension at month level and using WEEKS in User defined dimension would be better in the performance. It would be great if you can share some pros and cons for both the approaches and which one would be optimistic. Thanks in advance.   

how can i retrieve Entity, description, currency, IsIC and few text fields in Cube view like in Grid view for entity dimension?

There are data management tasks scheduled, they are designed to extract OneStream data and load to external database. Some failed with below error messages, but they succeeded later on. Just wondering what could be the possible causes, I would appreciate if anyone could help me understand                

Hello, everyone, I created book in OneStream, which includes several cube views, and open this book in Excel OneStream Add-in. Could you please advise can I change some parameters in this book, for example Time member, and refresh all cube views in this book in order to received updated figures based on new parameter? Or it's not possible, because books which I open in Excel OneStream Add-in, contains only values and if I want to update reports via Excel OneStream Add-in I need to create quick views in Excel OneStream Add-in?  

It does not appear that Cube View Extender Rules can be applied to Excel output. Can someone confirm this or provide an example if you have gotten this to work? Thanks!