OLAPObjects Publisher Release Notes

Highlights from the CURRENT release, OLAPObjects for TM1 5.0

OLAPObjects for TM1 5.0 has been available since May 2006. OLAPObjects Publisher now takes full advantage of the Microsoft .NET platform, which has enabled us to improve on existing functionality, as well as add many new features without compromising on ease-of-use or quality. Most importantly, with OLAPObjects for TM1 5.0, our customers will be even better equipped to take their TM1 visions to the next level, with superior tools, and levels of control.

With OLAPObjects for TM1 5.0 you have:

• Much faster rendering of dynamic (expansion) reports and templates.
• Much faster publishing and the ability to publish entire workbooks as briefing books, with tabs.
• The ability to combine high performance row and column expansions on the same web page at the same time, and the ability to nest row and column expansions within each other.
• Support for Excel freeze panes in the browser.
• The ability to easily add buttons to execute TurboIntegrator processes to a web page.
• The ability to integrate Crystal Xcelsius interactive business dashboards from BusinessObjects into web pages
• The ability to control the location of the Update button.
• Detailed control over the behavior of inputable cells.
• A new customizable toolbar on the web (which the developer can choose to display or not)
• Built in PDF generation on the web.
• All the wonderful features you had before!

With the new architecture in place, we are in a strong position to react even more quickly when customers and partners request new features. If there is anything you would like to see in OLAPObjects for TM1 soon, please let us know!

View the complete OLAPObjects Publisher 5.0 Release Notes (pdf, 376KB).

Highlights from the PRIOR release, OLAPObjects for TM1 4.11

With OLAPObjects Publisher 4.1 and 4.11, the OLAPObjects for TM1 suite has moved firmly beyond mere web publishing to becoming a true development environment for creating rich and flexible web based budgeting (and other) applications. Web pages created using OLAPObjects Publisher are now much more dynamic, while the act of designing and publishing a web page from Excel continues to be simple and intuitive. Here are some highlights:

• Long comments. The worksheet functions OOTEXTR() and OOTEXTS() can now be used to read and store long (longer than 255 characters) text in TM1.
• Support for integrated login. (Sometimes referred to as "single sign on").
• Significant extensions to the dynamic reporting capabilities. The SubsetExpand and SubsetExpand_ViewBased features enable developers to create interactive dynamic web pages with expanding rows or columns. With 4.11 several new capabilities have been added including paging, support for MDX expressions to define dimension subsets and support for TM1 8.4x dimension display styles.
  A major advantage of paging is rendering speed - the developer now has control of how many lines are shown at a time. This control can also be passed on to the user.
  The MDX support gives the developer the ability to modify subsets in real time.
• Extended MDX Support. Besides being supported for dynamic reporting (using SubsetExpand and SubsetExpand_ViewBased), SUBNM formulas now accept MDX expressions instead of subsets. While these SUBNM formulas will only work on the web, they provide a way of controlling the contents of drop down boxes on the web that goes beyond dynamic subsets. Most powerful is the fact that SUBNM contents can now be parameterized in real time.
• Ability to Hide Excel toolbar. A setting in the OLAPObjects.ini file can be used to prevent the Excel OLAPObjects Publisher toolbar from loading. OLAPObjects.ini can also be used for customizing the Excel, TM1 and OLAPObjects Publisher menus.
• Parameter passing. The ability to pass parameters from web page to web page using the new OOQueryData() function.
• OLAPObjects Utilities extension. The Loop Through Elements utility (formerly distributed within CRA Utilities) has been extended to allow the printing of a page number in an end user defined location

Complete list of release notes

• View Release notes 5.0.
• View Release notes 4.11.
• View Release notes 4.1.
• View Release notes 4.0.
• View Release notes 3.0.
• View Release Notes 2.2.1.
• View Release Notes 2.1.0.109.
• View Release Notes 1.10.