MDX Tools

it-workplace have released an mdx query building tool:

http://www.it-workplace.co.uk/IOCOverview.aspx

Being built on adomd.net it won't work with TM1 but i think it shows the increasing demand for mdx tools in the market place.

I built a tool for showing the mdx equivilant statement for tm1 views in my open source toolkit found here:

http://forums.applix.com/forum/tm.asp?m=10617

or

http://www.bihints.com/tm1_sdk

and I was wondering if people found these mdx tools useful and whether further tools would benefit people.

SAP Acquires Outlooksoft

Another aquisition, another surprise.

http://www.sap.com/usa/company/press/press.epx?pressid=7671

Considering TM1's recent extended ability in the SAP area via the SAP RFC connector, I would have thought TM1 to be a better acqusition.

TM1TOP Logs

TM1Top has been a really useful tool to me in the last few months.
It allows me to keep check on who's logged in and if anyone starts hogging too much server resources.
Currently I have tm1top set for logging every 5 seconds but the this does mean the log file builds up pretty quickly over the course of a week or so; therefore making it important that you archive or reset the log file every so often.

TM1 Subsets Copy Paste

I'm sure a lot of people are familiar with the copy and paste facility in the subset editor. It allows you to build a list of elements that may come from anywhere within the dimension using the find facility or reorder existing subsets.
One trick that I don't think people are aware of is the ability to copy from Excel into the subset editor.
e.g. someone sends you a list of costcentres in Excel they need a report on, you can go into your cube, open the costcentre dimension subset, delete any costcentres showing, flick into Excel and copy the costcentres, flick back into TM1 and paste into the subset editor.
This certainly is quicker to build a list of elements than going through and selecting them one by one with the find facility.
The other cool thing is that it will display any alias you have switched on too.