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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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Ability To Hide Columns On OOTB and Custom Objects

Hi support, based on feedback from @Mark Nealey on my discussion point here, I would like to propose the ability to do custom "hide columns" on OOTB and custom model objects. This will remove the unrequired columns for a customer's specific conf...
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

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

Ability to change Comparison variance sign

Would like the ability to display the comparison variance as either B/(W) or (B)/W
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to add filtering to ServiceNow OOTB Connectors

The ServiceNow OOTB connectors pull in more data than required and do not support the ability to filter. Allowing the user to select column(s) and pre-defined values would reduce the unnecessary data being ingested and reduce the need to use the c...
7 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

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,...
8 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

To display count of selected documents at the time of Check In / Revert Changes

This helps apptio users to be more cautious of what data been checking in and can validate between expected enhancements to actual work to avoid unnecessary check in's / revertion.  This applies to TBM Studio where users shall have option to...
11 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Time Period based on current month

As a Service Owner, I’d like to be able to switch between current month and month in arrear reports without having to update the time period so that I can see the data in those reports.  I’ll know it’s complete when I can ...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Future consideration

Properly validate formula in pipeline step

Currently if you have this formula =If(value< 99999, use-this, use-that) If use-this or use-that are invalid syntactically (for example do not exist) then we expect an error to be shown. However, if *current* data does not exercise one path the...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Numeric sort doesn't always sort as numeric

There are a number of places in Studio where sorting on a numeric field does not produce the expected result for negative values (appears to be sorting as a label).  For example in the Table step in the transform pipeline, an ascending sort y...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration