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Set a default member for your dimensions
One of the advantages of using the MDX views from PAX (Planning Analytics for Excel), PAW (Planning Analytics Workspace) or Arc is that you don’t have to select elements from all dimensions to start seeing some data. If one dimension is not selected, TM1 will show you the value of the default member.
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Create your own snippets
Arc helps you develop higher quality TM1/Planning Analytics applications faster. Arc is full of features which will save you lots of time, one of them is the snippets.
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Debugging Turbo Integrator processes with Arc
Have you ever spent hours trying to understand why your TM1/Planning Analytics process is not working and ended up exporting all your variables into a flat file?
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How to store TM1 credentials
Arc is full of features, one of them is to be able to store your TM1 credentials. In the settings tab of the About page, just tick the stored credentials option under TM1 Credentials:
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Define templates for new TM1 objects
Instead of starting from scratch each time you need a new object, Arc enables you to create a new object (cube, chore, dimension and process) from templates.
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Debugging a TM1 process
Debugging code allows you to step through line-by-line and see what the values of the variables are as you go. No need to write out to ASCII files with what is going on in TM1 process anymore.
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Generate code automatically with snippets
A snippet is a bloc of code which can be automatically generated. To add a snippet, just press Ctrl+Space in one of the TM1 process tab, and then type snippet or the name if you know what it is.
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Connect Arc to a TM1 instance
Arc uses the TM1 REST API to connect to an IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) instance. You can either connect to a TM1 instance using the admin host port or using the TM1 REST API port of a specific TM1 instance.
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How to login into a TM1 instance
You should be able to see all TM1 instances available on the server where Arc is running.
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Connect to a TM1 instance directly via the REST API
As well as connecting to an admin host you can also add connections directly to a REST API port, this will be beneficial if you are connecting to a cloud server and only the REST API port has been opened.