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Dominic Nguyen's profile image
Dominic Nguyen posted Mon December 02, 2024 11:32 AM

Hi, 

I'm having difficulties having TBM read very tiny values and with precision. Values that you would probably use scientific notation to denote. For example,  "0.0000473999".

I think TBM is reading it as a literal string since there's a #VALUE issue when you convert that column into a Value Type and look at the totals for the that column. But the data comes in as a number in a csv file (as "0.0000473999" and not "4.7E-5"). Anyone deal with this before and have a way to get it to read properly? is there info on how much precision numbers can have in TBM?

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Guillermo Cuadrado  Best Answer

When you say TBM I take you mean what we used to call "Cost Transparency", now IBM Apptio Costing.

One of the reasons might be that when you import the CSV file, the column holding that piece of data is marked as Label (A) in the picture:

If this is not the case, try to see which of the values in the column is causing the #VALUE error.  One way to do that is right-clicking on the column header and asking the engine to "Show Values"

CT will display something like this:

I take it that, in your case, CT displays a #VALUE error in the total. Try to sort the data either way and see if you find something that is not numeric. The value you give should work

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Mario Luque

Hello Dominic

In one customer we have in the Cost metric 15 decimals............. for reports we use sometimes one (hide) colum with a numberformat and label and another referenced to that or we put a formula formated. All reports exported to TSV via DL and works fine

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Rene Norskov

For info on number precision, please see the Apptio Help Center: ApptioOne Precision