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  • 1.  Best Practices for Writing Back Excel Calculations to TM1 Using PAX

    Posted Thu September 12, 2024 08:27 AM

    Hi everyone,

    I'm looking for advice on the best way to:

    1. Extract data from TM1 into Excel.
    2. Perform calculations in Excel.
    3. Write the results back to TM1 using DBRW.

    I'm currently using PAX and the DBRW formulas to pull data into Excel, and it works well. After performing my calculations, I want to write the calculated values back. into TM1.

    What's the best approach to link calculated Excel cells back to back to TM1?

    Thanks for any help or suggestions!

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    Asgeir Thorgeirsson
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  • 2.  RE: Best Practices for Writing Back Excel Calculations to TM1 Using PAX

    Posted Thu September 12, 2024 08:51 AM

    I figured this out :)

    Just using the DBSW does the trick

    DBSW - IBM Documentation



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    Asgeir Thorgeirsson
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  • 3.  RE: Best Practices for Writing Back Excel Calculations to TM1 Using PAX

    Posted Mon September 16, 2024 10:08 AM

    you can also wrap it in an if statement to turn the send ability on and off, something like

    =IF($A$1 = TRUE, DBRW(), "send off")

    this can be useful if you are adjusting your calculations and don't want to write them back to TM1 yet



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    Angela Nixon
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  • 4.  RE: Best Practices for Writing Back Excel Calculations to TM1 Using PAX

    Posted Tue September 17, 2024 05:00 PM

    May a suggest a somewhat neater alternative?

    Set up a Yes/No selector (Data Validation), then have a cell which returns the cubename if Yes, '' if No.

    Point the DBSW cube reference to that Cell.

    Avoids all the IFs in the DBSWs.



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    David Usherwood
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  • 5.  RE: Best Practices for Writing Back Excel Calculations to TM1 Using PAX

    Posted Tue September 17, 2024 03:10 AM

    Hi,

    You can also consider using quick reports for this. Make sure "Preserve user formulas" is switched ON in PAX settings



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    Alexander Dvoinev
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