PAX local - Mac install?
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WILDE
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PAX local - Mac install?
Has anyone been able to get PAX, or Perspectives installed locally on a Mac? Can anyone offer any advise how to do this or if its possible?
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paulsimon
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Re: PAX local - Mac install?
Hi
As far as I am aware it is not possible. Perspectives is a windows code base. It won't run on a Mac. If you want to develop on a Mac then one option is to start a Remote Desktop Session on a Windows box.
Regards
Paul Simon
As far as I am aware it is not possible. Perspectives is a windows code base. It won't run on a Mac. If you want to develop on a Mac then one option is to start a Remote Desktop Session on a Windows box.
Regards
Paul Simon
Re: PAX local - Mac install?
Quick update for anyone landing on this thread today looking for a Mac-friendly way to get TM1 data into Excel.
The reason Perspectives and PAfE don't work on Mac Excel is architectural — they're COM add-ins, and COM doesn't exist on macOS. That hasn't changed. What has changed is that Microsoft's Office.js Web Add-in framework runs natively on Excel for Mac, Excel for Windows, and Excel on the web from a single codebase, and the Custom Functions API on top of it lets vendors register cross-platform =MYNS.MYFUNC() formulas.
Disclosure: I'm with ForQuest Solutions and we ship PAXcel, a TM1/PA Excel Web Add-in built on Office.js — it's on Microsoft AppSource. Custom functions cover the usual TM1 patterns (=PAXCEL.GET, =PAXCEL.VIEW, =PAXCEL.SEND, =PAXCEL.SUBSET, =PAXCEL.ATTR, =PAXCEL.SERVER), and because it's Office.js the same workbook opens identically on Mac and Windows. Per-user TM1 security still applies, and it works against both on-prem Planning Analytics and PA Cloud.
Happy to answer questions from anyone evaluating it for a Mac-heavy team.
Rick Stevenson, ForQuest Solutions
The reason Perspectives and PAfE don't work on Mac Excel is architectural — they're COM add-ins, and COM doesn't exist on macOS. That hasn't changed. What has changed is that Microsoft's Office.js Web Add-in framework runs natively on Excel for Mac, Excel for Windows, and Excel on the web from a single codebase, and the Custom Functions API on top of it lets vendors register cross-platform =MYNS.MYFUNC() formulas.
Disclosure: I'm with ForQuest Solutions and we ship PAXcel, a TM1/PA Excel Web Add-in built on Office.js — it's on Microsoft AppSource. Custom functions cover the usual TM1 patterns (=PAXCEL.GET, =PAXCEL.VIEW, =PAXCEL.SEND, =PAXCEL.SUBSET, =PAXCEL.ATTR, =PAXCEL.SERVER), and because it's Office.js the same workbook opens identically on Mac and Windows. Per-user TM1 security still applies, and it works against both on-prem Planning Analytics and PA Cloud.
Happy to answer questions from anyone evaluating it for a Mac-heavy team.
Rick Stevenson, ForQuest Solutions