Custom control cubes

[stex2727]

Tis Christmas time and all is quiet. Dear Santa I would like to have a custom control cube for my TM1 server for Christmas.

I know a similar end result could be achieved through security but I like the functionality that it is generally hidden from the end user unless they display control cubes. I wonder if any of Santa's little helpers know of a work around?

Stex

[Alan Kirk]

Tis Christmas time and all is quiet. Dear Santa I would like to have a custom control cube for my TM1 server for Christmas.

I know a similar end result could be achieved through security but I like the functionality that it is generally hidden from the end user unless they display control cubes. I wonder if any of Santa's little helpers know of a work around?

There's nothing to stop you from creating your own control cubes starting with a } character. IIRC you can't do it via the GUI but you can certainly do it via TI.

I don't necessarily encourage this (though I admit to having done it myself) since there's always the remote possibility of the name that you choose going into use in a future version of TM1, but it's viable.

I'd actually take your request one step further and ask for the ability for each user to filter individual objects (to make only their most commonly used ones visible by default), though I suppose that you can achieve the same end (kinda-sorta) with Applications. (Can be a bey-hatch to do through the GUI when you have a lot of objects, though.)

[stex2727]

Thanks Alan, never thought of TI, nice. You should be safe if you prefix it with something odd }'insert company name here', but then again it is IBM (if you cant beat em, buy em)

ta
Stex

[Martin Ryan]

Only minor gotcha is that if you create a custom control cube you can't delete it via the front end. You have to stop the server, delete the back end file and restart. This can be a bit annoying during the dev stages when you might find you have to keep rebuilding to get the dimension structures just right.

Martin

[Alan Kirk]

Only minor gotcha is that if you create a custom control cube you can't delete it via the front end. You have to stop the server, delete the back end file and restart. This can be a bit annoying during the dev stages when you might find you have to keep rebuilding to get the dimension structures just right.

Not sure what you mean here.

If you mean that you can't delete it via the GUI, then no, but you can't create it that way either; as I said, you do it through TI via the CubeCreate function. Similarly the CubeDestroy function in TI will delete the cube and the .cub file. There's no need to restart the server; you can create and destroy it as many times as you need to (with as many different combinations of dimensions as you want) using those two commands. Or certainly you can in 9.0 and I doubt it's any different in 9.5.