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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Planning Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on May 4, 2026

PAW must natively include websheets published via PAfE - just as TM1 Web does.

Idea: Tm1Web-like websheet access has to be available in PAW "Reports and Analysis" section for users with "Consumer" role.
TM1 Web enables users to access websheets (which have been published via Planning Analytics for Excel) in a hierarchical folder structure. User permissons regarding published webhseets are set in }ApplicationSecurity control cube. We would have expected Planning Analytics Workspace to include this crucial feature - but unfortunately (so far) it does not. We want to address this shortcoming by adding this idea since we are heavily relying on this type of websheets, using hundreds of them within several custom-built TM1 Web applications. As TM1 Web (respecitvely TM1 Spreadsheet Service) is announced to be fully incorporated into Planning Analytics Workspace, we would face massive manual workloads if PAW does not offer a suitable replacement. Currently, websheets can only be made accessible in PAW after they have been included into a "Book". So, we would have to create roughly 350 books to which we would have to add our existing websheets. Websheets do not look as good in PAW as they do in TM1 Web since websheet size does not adjust to screen size in PAW. Another, massive problem we would be facing if we had to include all our websheets into PAW books is security. Currently, we can manage websheet security very efficiently in }ApplicationSecurity control cube, where we are able to implement rules for role-based access to specific websheets. Security settings for PAW Books however require high levels of manual maintenance, since in every book, permissions have to be set individually for every user via dropdown menu. The great majority of our users are report-consumers who are not supposed to create books or access PAW workbench. Therefore, websheets should be accessible in PAW "Reports and Analysis" section for users with "Consumer" role, based on their permissons set in }ApplicationSecurity. We have talked to IBM officials who have indicated that this kind of feature could be added to PAW requiring very little development efforts. So please make PAW more useful by adding this important feature.

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  • Admin
    Stuart King
    May 4, 2026

    This ides is not under consideration. There is no plan to support native Websheets outside the context of Workspace book. However, the product team is working on enhancements to the Websheets widget that will support some of the features from TM1Web that are missing in Workspace. This includes the ability to navigate to other Websheets in a new tab in the Websheet widget.

    Note that permissions on the Applications folder structure in TM1 databases can already be updated in the PAW modeling workbench. The workbench allows for management of the Applications security structure. You will still need to give users access to at least one book in Workspace, where the book contains the Websheet you want users to start with. This can be simplified in Workspace by using the PAW everyone group.