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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Planning Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 13, 2025

bring back slice to excel in planning analytics workspace

previously in tm1web, it was possible to prepare a cube view by slicing and dicing to the right filters and dimensions, and hit slice to excel to create an excel file with excel formulas to link to the cube data.

in paworkspace, it is no longer possible to have this feature/function since the export function automatically by default exports as a "snapshot" without the formulas.

this is a rather important use case since most of the reports that we create (and i suppose other companies too) are coming from a view that the user has customised (via pivoting) and then exported to excel as a persisted report that can be refreshed and brought up.

This also removes the ability to link the data to powerpoint effectively.

Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)
  • Admin
    Stuart King
    Jul 14, 2025

    This idea is not under consideration. The idea can continue to accumulate votes and the IBM Planning Analytics product team may reevaluate the idea at a later date.

    Note that you can slice from the cube viewer in Planning Analytics for Excel if the objective is to generate an Excel report with functions to support a live connection to TM1.