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EditRows() function should strictly follow checkbox selections when they are enabled on the Editable Table report component

If the Checkbox option is enabled on an Editable Table component in a Report, the use of the EditRows() function in the action script of a button should only update rows that have the checkbox ticked. If no rows have been ticked, it should not upd...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

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 ...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Ability to schedule the enabling and disabling of calculations in Calc Management

Currently to either disable to enable stage calculating through Calc Management (Project Calculation Management) this is needed to be done manually. The idea would be the ability to set a schedule to either enable or disable stage calcs for indivi...
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 1

Allow admins to create popup for users to see and use to provide feedback when they log into Apptio

We have hundreds of Apptio users in our organisation and are interested in getting their feedback about their experience using Apptio however it is not practical to reach out to all of them individually. It would be great if we could create up a p...
3 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Under review

Datalink failures - More descriptive error messaging

When a Datalink connector/connection group fails it is sometimes difficult to identify why it failed. Most times, the error message contains "Unknown BIIT error" which does not give much detail as to why it failed. It would be great if the error m...
2 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Apptio CT and Datalink should provide capability to export data to CSV

CSV is one of the standard feed format used for data ingress/egress between systems. In general, CSV is considered to be better than XLS because of its capacity to carry more data and to retain the original data formats. In our organization, all o...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Future consideration

Default API URL for reports should include all rows of data instead of only displayed rows

When copying API URLs, currently the default is to copy only the displayed rows (first page) of the report data when the Component Information URL is copied. "&rowCount=1000000000" must be added on to include the entire report. It would be mor...
6 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Apptio DataLink Adaptor for Planning Analytics (On-Prem)

Hi Team, Clients today are having to manually extract and load up data from Apptio into their Planning Analytics instance on-prem. Currently there is no intention to move to using Planning Analytics Cloud (SaaS). The client has strict data soverei...
3 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

ML: Auto JE Filtering in GL and Cost Pool Mapping Using Some Field Combinations

Some customers face challenges in identifying which journal entries are related to IT spend and in mapping cost pools within the GL, as the granularity of accounts and cost centers is insufficient. With following functionality, many customers coul...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Planned for future release

3+ Object Reporting

Currently reporting is limited to only 2 objects in one report but there is an increasing ask for multiple object reporting for CIO/CFO detailed reporting. The ask is to increase the number of objects to 3 at the least to enable more granular vie...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration