I've been experimenting with Applications and Plans a fair bit recently, and found the functionality useful with the exception of the lack of a proper approval process for submissions.
I do have a few suggestions though for simple usability improvements and would be interested to see if others felt the same.
When using an Application or a Plan it would be useful to be able to minimise the left hand navigation panel to create more real estate.
It would also be good if the text in the left hand pane did not split words in half depending on the width of the pane, instead carry the whole word down onto the next line.
As an administrator the default action when clicking on an application or a plan is to go into edit mode, rather than launch the application or plan, for end users this is less of a problem as the plan opens, but for demo purposes (logged on as an administrator) it's a bit fiddly having to click on the 3 dots to select Open Contribution, maybe this should be the default action and editing the application or plan is selected from the 3 dots.
Re. the previous paragraph, the terminology Open Contribution is meaningless to current users, this refers to the old Cognos Enterprise Planning or Performance Modeller terminology, maybe this should say Open Plan or Open Application depending on the type of activity.
I'm presuming the database that holds the submission status for each stage of a plan is held in the Planning Analytics Workspace database and is therefore not available for custom reporting that we could do from a TM1 control cube. With that in mind it would be good if a Submission status screen would be more readily available rather than having to dig into the plan and click on the submissions to see how things are going.
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Mark White
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