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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Ignore Permissions of Admins

If Admins are part of Cost Object Permissions or Project Permissions their view is limited to permissions.  However, Admin Role is expected to see everything.  If Permissions are created in CT based on Cost Center List and other Data it...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Get Last Filter Value

When using the Get Last Filter Value function in HTML for a drill report, we want the function (or a new function) to show the user the value that they just clicked to perform the drill. In theory, the thing they clicked is the exact last filter a...
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 1 Under review

Enhancement Request - Project Hierarchy Dropdown in IIP - expand and collapse

Hi there - We are requesting an enhancement request in IIP, specifically the Project drop-down.  We would like to have the functionality mirror that of the Department drop-down, directly to the left.  In prior versions of Planning, the u...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Duplicate Row in Labor Activity Tab Without Actuals

When duplicating a row in labor acivity tab as a starting point for adjustments, monthly actuals get duplicated also and can't be zeroed out.  Want all but actuals to be duplicated.  this tab is not functioning the same as all other ITP/...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Deselect Automation for Labor in Planning

The main end users who utilize Planning desire the ability to "turn off" certain automation features/calculations that Planning performs. Specifically for this use case, users would like the ability to not have the monthly projections "overwritten...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Ability to Export Variance Analysis

Variance Analysis is limited, as only one version exists in ITP. Therefore it would be desirable to be able to export Variance Analysis in order to enable future reference/analysis against a specific time period. In turn this would offer the abili...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Utilize New Editable Table Metadata In Tables

As part of our workflow, we use the most recent updated date as a guide when copying from project to project. Currently, this is achieved via a script in the Editable Table.  The new functionality 'show changes' does this at the system level,...
9 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Usage report: Automatic filtering according to access roles (replace mapping table)

We do want to filter the usage according to the different roles, e.g. IT management.  Up to now, we have always had to enter our roles manually in the "user to persona mapping" table. It would be nice if the roles that we have assigned for th...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Under review

Implement transform pipeline better

The pipeline has been designed to give the appearance of multiple formula steps by, in the background, annotating which step a formula comes after - accordingly you can't have two formula steps one after another. It gives the apparent functionalit...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Benchmarking manually entry output will not allow to go back to 0.

When manually entering the FTE Data Review we are unable to change the output from 1 to 0. It was defaulted as 0 before accidentally changed and now no way to get it back. When changing from 1 to 2 this works just not back to 0.
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Benchmarking 0 Under review