Cognos TM1 Applications

Last updated on Sep 27 2021
Rahul Nair

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Cognos TM1 Applications

Introduction to TM1 Applications

TM1 applications are folders which contains the shortcuts of various other TM1 objects. They’re created just to keep (shortcuts of) a related group of objects at one place.

For example, if you may have one application for all Sales related objects (sales related cubes, processes, dimensions and reports)

Types

There are 3 types of application shortcuts that you can use:

  1. TM1 Objects – You can give reference to TM1 objects. For example, cubes, dimensions, views, processes etc.
  2. Files – You can create shortcuts for any type of file for example, MS excel, MS word or text files.
  3. URLs – You can create links to other websites such as a shortcut/link to ibm.com

NOTE – It’s important to understand that you create just the shortcuts in TM1 applications not the actual objects. So, if you delete a shortcut from application, the corresponding cube will NOT be deleted.

Creating TM1 Applications

Launch your Architect. Login to your TM1Beginner application server. Expand nodes, right click Applications and click Create New Application.

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TM1 Applications

A folder with name ‘New Folder’ will be created with lock key sign on the icon. It means that this is a private folder and only you can see it. Let’s rename it to Sales.

First go to View in Architect menu options and ensure that Properties window is selected (check marked).

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View

Select Sales application. Its properties window will be shown at the right side.

Creating objects shortcuts

Now expand the cubes node, drag Products2 cube and drop it in the properties window of Sales application.

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Properties

Doing this will create a shortcut of Products2 cube under Sales folder. Open your Products2 cube and rearrange the dimensions in subsequent order and save the view with name “Data Input”.

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Sales folder

Again, select the Sales application and drag and drop this view (data input) into properties window of application. Doing so will create a shortcut of Data Input view in Sales application. Rename the shortcut as “Sales Data Input”

Expand processes and add the process LoadDataToProducts2 to Sales application.

Creating Files Shortcuts

Right click on Sales application and click Add File…

An add file dialog will open. Go to your TM1Beginner’s InputFile folder and select data.csv file. In the left bottom of this dialog, there is an option to copy the file to TM1 server. Select that. Click Open. File will be added to the application.

Creating URLs

Right click on Sales application and click Add URL

Subsequent dialog will open. Mention the website URL and name in the box and click OK.

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Add URL

After creating all above shortcuts, your application will look like this:

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Application

Make TM1 application Public

Now right click on application and go to Security > Make Public. Now the application is public and available for all to see.

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  • Cognos TM1 has a market share of about 11.87%.
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Curriculum

Introduction to Cognos TM1

  • Concepts of Multi-dimensional OLAP database
  • Cognos TM1 Installation
  • TM1 Servers and Services
  • TM1 Workflow
  • TM1 User Interfaces
  • Turbo Integrator

Cognos TM1 Configuration

  • Managing TM1 Components and Tasks
  • Operations on TM1 Servers: Start, Stop and adding TM1 Servers
  • TM1 Web, Applications and Operations Console
  • Using Command prompt create or delete Desktop/Windows services
  • Hands On

Creating Dimensions

  • Manual creation of Dimensions
  • Create Product Dimensions and Measure Dimensions
  • Dynamic Subset Creation
  • Sparse and Dense Dimensions
  • Using Turbo Integrator ETL create cubes, review Cubes and Dimensions
  • Create Subset, assign Subset, Dimensional Manipulation
  • Performance Monitoring
  • Control Cubes
  • TM1 Web and Rules in TM1
  • Cube related attributes, dimension related attributes
  • Hands On

Building Cubes and Views

  • Building Cubes
  • Building Views
  • Bulk Load Mode
  • Creating Data Source through TM1 Turbo Integrator
  • Hands On

TM1 Security

  • Various security levels including Server level, Cube level, Dimension level
  • Concepts of Security in TM1
  • Creation of Client & Group and access privileges
  • Cube Level Security
  • Hands On

TM1 Data Spreading

  • TM1 Data Spreading and Recreating dimension
  • Attributes element types
  • Cube control elements
  • Dimension elements
  • Drill Assignment rules
  • Trace a feeder and feed strings
  • Hands On

Cognos TM1 Rules

  • Understanding TM1 rules
  • TM1 Rules Editor and Rules compilation using functions
  • Rule performance optimization
  • Element information rules functions
  • Cube manipulation Turbo Integrator functions
  • D-type in TM1
  • ELCOMP & ELISCOMP Functions
  • ELISPAR & ELWEIGHT Functions
  • Hands On

Advanced Scripting with Turbo Integrator

  • Advanced Scripting with Turbo Integrator
  • Deploying Dimension subsets and attributes
  • Editing procedures using scripts
  • Hands On

Advanced Modelling Techniques

  • Significance of advanced modelling
  • Manually adding objects to application design
  • Understanding application views, dimensions and hierarchy
  • Virtual cubes, Lookup cubes and spread profile cube
  • Hands On

TM1 Application Web

  • TM1 Web Applications
  • Creating TM1 Application
  • Working with TM1 Application Web
  • Snapshots in TM1 application
  • Adding MDX filters and Action button properties
  • Active forms, TM1 user and data formatting range
  • Hands On

 

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