Automatic many to many is disabled

Question

Hi all,

I am only very new to Apptio. I am working on my hands-on exam now. I used Lookupex() to match the granularity of two tables. However when I tried to modify the allocation in the Model pipeline step, the allocation does not use the newly created detailed granularity. Instead, it still uses the higher level granularity.

Meanwhile, I got this error to say "Automatic many to many" was disabled. Does anyone know how I should turn it on?

Screen shot attached. Thanks very much!

James
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Accepted Answer

Hi James,

Happy to hear you are beginning your TBM journey. This likely has to do with your object identifier set for each of your modeled objects. I've linked 2 useful articles below that might be helpful for you.

Amanda does a great job explaining what an object identifier is and why it is important:
https://community.apptio.com/communities/community-home/librarydocuments/viewdocument?DocumentKey=5ed44038-63b2-4ca0-a0ae-fa7b9568d4a8&CommunityKey=425255f0-2344-4925-89f0-f0eced22345e&tab=librarydocuments

Best practices for object identifiers:
https://community.apptio.com/viewdocument/best-practices-variable-granularit?CommunityKey=3ff74a27-8291-48d0-ba5a-403be94d07b8&tab=librarydocuments

Thanks,
Joe
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