Slice User Manual
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Help articles for Slice — Cubewise's Microsoft Excel add-in for IBM Planning Analytics (TM1). Slice is fast, easy to install, connects directly to the TM1 REST API, supports hierarchies natively, and works with existing Perspectives and PAfE reports. This space covers everything from core concepts to day-to-day use, hierarchies, bursting, and training.
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💎 Slice Value and Foundation
What Slice is, how it compares to Perspectives and IBM Planning Analytics for Excel, and the core capabilities it brings to TM1 end users.
✨ Slice Innovative Features
Hands-on tour of Slice's signature features using the Slice Demo workbook — Active Forms, MDX Forms, dynamic columns, and more.
🌳 Leveraging Hierarchies with Slice
Using TM1 alternate hierarchies in Slice reports — SUBNM, DBH/DBHW formulas, and Active Forms.
📊 Working with Slice in Excel
Day-to-day Slice in Excel — the Ribbon, context menu, Active Forms with Dynamic Columns, and Virtual Consolidations.
📤 Bursting Excel Report
Distribute personalised Excel reports to many recipients from a single template.
💡 Slice Insights
Tips, hidden gems, keyboard shortcuts, and quick-reference formula syntax for power users.
🎓 Slice Training
Step-by-step training content to get hands-on with Slice.
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