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Only publish editable table if editable table data has changed

Currently, editable tables publish to 'normal' tables regardless if the data has changed within the editable or not and this causes a check-in. It would be more efficient if the editable table only published when the data in that editable table ha...
8 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 2 Under review

Allow External data upload for ADM

It would be helpful to enable EXTERNAL data uploads from TBM Studio via ADM to Apptio Planning. These files contain centrally managed forecasts (not edited by users) calculated in the TBM Studio but today must be exported to CSV and reuploaded. Au...
21 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Multiple scheduling options in a single day - instead of just once schedule per day

Like Datalink we should get an option to schedule multiple connectors in ADM to sync up Cloudy and Studio. Use-case :- A single connector is helpful if we have a fix time when Cloudy is getting updated and that too just once a day. However, in ord...
22 days ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

Excel Import and Export support

Currently it is not possible to directly upload Excel (xlsx) files into Apptio planning or for exporting from Apptio Planning. This creates a lot of issues with Admins and End Users leading to incorrect plans and/ or reference data. It is not poss...
22 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

IT Planning Multi-Year Reference Data Option

As a TBMA supporting IT Planning, we have a use case for enabling multi-year functionality as it relates to our reference data, specifically Labor Rates and Labor Allocation Rules.  Our FP&A team is currently forecasting 3 years within a ...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Planned for future release

Cost Center Owner access approval should be one and avoid manual addition

After a new user has got added to "Cost Center Owner" group the new user still does not have access. The new user needs to again request access to "Cost Object Permissions" which needs to be done manually by a Planning super user. This manual dire...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

delete data in report using standard editable table based on a filtered selection including multiple pages

delete data in report using standard editable table based on a filtered selection including multiple pages. Currently we can only delete either all data (with the button) or selected rows using a check box on the current page.
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Under review

Update Reference Data on Plans to provide details of line items that will be deleted/changed

If there are some missing entries in current reference data from earlier uploaded reference data, the customer would like the option to have the Update reference data panel on plans show even the details of which specific entries/line items/rows w...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Create role permission to disable right click options for end users

End users can right click on any table in any report and select "Show Full Data Path", "Create Published Table", and "Trace Lineage for this component" - screenshot attached. These are not options that our end users should have the ability to use ...
6 months ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Sort field names in the Hide/Rename step of the Transform pipeline

The Hide/Rename step should either have an option to sort field name ascending or descending, or it should just auto sort ascending. When a long list of field names are hidden, it make sit challenging to scroll through to see if a specific field i...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review