{"id":3403,"date":"2023-04-12T15:32:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T15:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quebit.com\/askquebit\/how-to-create-tm1-ibm-planning-analytics-picklists-with-dimension-attributes-or-with-rules\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:32:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:32:33","slug":"how-to-create-tm1-ibm-planning-analytics-picklists-with-dimension-attributes-or-with-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quebit.com\/askquebit\/how-to-create-tm1-ibm-planning-analytics-picklists-with-dimension-attributes-or-with-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do I Create Picklists in IBM Planning Analytics Using Dimension Attributes or Rules?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Picklists are a beloved feature in TM1\/Planning Analytics (PA) as it helps prevent user input errors, by limiting the values that can be typed into a cell.<\/p>\n

How to Create a Picklist in TM1\/PA using Attributes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Create an attribute off any given dimension and name it “Picklist.” Write the element attribute names.<\/li>\n
  2. In this example, I created a “Food Measures” dimension to have a “Picklist” attribute and used three different approaches to create the picklists:\n
      \n
    1. Static elements –> Static:Element names (each element must be separated by colons)<\/li>\n
    2. Subset of elements –> Subset:DimensonName:SubsetName<\/li>\n
    3. List the entire Dimension –> Dimension:DimensionName<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      \"\"<\/p>\n

      How to Create a Picklist in TM1\/PA using Rules:<\/strong><\/p>\n

      The benefit of using rules for picklist is that you can limit drop downs based off if statements. Using a workforce planning example, perhaps we want to say “ONLY when the employee is a new employee, would a user have the ability to edit the parameters and use the picklist dropdown selections. OTHERWISE, the user would do not have a picklist dropdown selection.”<\/p>\n

      To create a picklist with rules:<\/p>\n

        \n
      1. Right click on any cube and select “Create Picklist Cube.”<\/li>\n
      2. This will create a Control Cube }Picklist_CubeName<\/li>\n
      3. Create rules on that new cube<\/li>\n
      4. Write the rules to say whatever your picklists drop downs are<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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