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This repository hosts the API documentation for IBM Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel. For full product documentation, please visit the Knowledge Center:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSD29G_2.0.0/kc_gen/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ipa.doc_using_planning_analytics_toc-gen2.html
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ExecuteFunction #34

Open paulsimongb opened 3 years ago

paulsimongb commented 3 years ago

The documentation on this refers to Custom Report.

The example VB given does not work. It is obvious that arg1 is not going to be a parameter but will be the url or server depending on whether 0 based

All of the documentation and examples given are very poor. I had to check an old example to get the Exploration Create to work.

The API is very difficult to use, and with poor documentation it is even harder.

Why can I not just put a dot after a key word to see the available methods and properties as I can when dealing with pretty much any other part of the Excel model?

The sample files are no longer being shipped with the new approach of downloading an XLL and the documentation needs to include the latest set of files rather than saying that you can get them from the install folder.

tedphillips commented 3 years ago

regarding the final remark, the files historically mentioned in the doc relative to 'install location' should available directly from the site shortly, and the doc updated.

tedphillips commented 3 years ago

references to custom report & 'create' as you said, are a bug in the doc. there's no particular onus for leveraging reporting to trigger a process.

we'll get this corrected. thanks!

regarding consumability, the reasons there are fairly complex. I'll note that the single-file version of the addin is an important step to let the addin divorce itself from some of that and make the api's easier to get to. we have more to do in this area, and welcome your continued feedback.

tedphillips commented 3 years ago

file downloads from the relevant doc sections on the api site itself are now live.