Navigate cube views with Snap commands
💡 Control cube views with short text commands
Select members, keep a subset of the selection and swap rows and columns with the Select, Keep and Swap Snap commands in IBM Planning Analytics.
🎯 What you will learn in this short
In this video, I show you how to open the command field in a cube view and change the country selection with Select and Keep. Use Swap to exchange rows and columns. The video calls these “Sprachbefehle”; the Snap commands demonstrated are typed into the command field.
Learn where to open the command field and view the available Snap commands.
Use Select World to display the World selection, then use Keep to retain individual members.
Use Swap to exchange the row and column axes of the cube view.
✍️ Practical example
Scenario:
A cube view shows Germany. You want to display the World selection, retain individual members and rearrange the view.
Result:
Select and Keep define the required selection. Swap exchanges the rows and columns.
What was covered: Opened the command field + entered Select World + limited the selection with Keep + swapped rows and columns with Swap
Original transcript (German)
So navigierst du dich mit Sprache durch deine Cubeview in Planning Analytics.
Öffne eine beliebige Cubeview und klicke auf den Select-Button. In meinem Beispiel möchte ich mich durch die Länder-Dimension navigieren. Die verfügbaren Sprachbefehle werden dir hier angezeigt.
Möchte ich zum Beispiel statt Deutschland alle Länder sehen, gebe ich ‚Select World‘ ein. Um nur ein einzelnes Element anzuzeigen, nutze ich den Befehl ‚Keep‘. Und um Zeilen und Spalten zu tauschen, verwende ich ‚Swap‘.
Wenn man sich etwas daran gewöhnt hat, spart man sich viele Klicks und navigiert deutlich schneller.
Wie verwendest du diese Funktion? Schreib’s gern in die Kommentare!
English transcript
Here is how you navigate through your Planning Analytics cube view using commands.
Open any cube view and click the Select button. In my example, I want to navigate through the country dimension. The available commands are displayed here.
To see all countries instead of Germany, for example, I enter “Select World”. To display just one member, I use the “Keep” command. To swap rows and columns, I use “Swap”.
Once you get used to this, you can save many clicks and navigate much faster.
How do you use this feature? Let me know in the comments!
