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Status Future consideration
Workspace Apptio
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 27, 2023

Calc Explorer Enhancement

Calc Explorer Enhancement - During a recent presentation from Apptio I was shown this new feature, and it is great but I queried if we can have previous periods viewable at the same time, maybe a trend in the UI labels? Increase/decrease numbers? This would really help when gauging performance impact of any config changes.

  • ADMIN RESPONSE
    Dec 9, 2024

    @Paul Turner Here is my interpretation of your request.  Please confirm or provide further clarification on what you'd like to be able to do.

    As an administrator using Calc Explorer to find areas to improve the project configuration,

    I want to see the Calculation Effort trend over the last 10 builds,

    So I can more clear understand what/why/when is the source of the change: 1) slowly increasing over time (e.g., increasing # of table rows), or 2) abrupt change (e.g., caused by configuration change).  

    I know this is done when:

    I could open up a “detailed drill” report via a hover over of the entity with a “Trend” option.  Clicking on “Trend” would display a modal showing the trend of the recent calc effort (with option to trend by Rows or Columns).   Example mockup: