As Business Analytics coaches for Lodestar Solutions, we come across questions that are asked of us by our clients. A common question is about TM1 period to date dimensions. There are many times when  data needs to be seen on a Period to Date basis, such as quarter-to-date and year-to-date.  Creating additional rollups in your time dimension can be cumbersome.  An easy way to tackle this is to have a Period to Date dimension in your cube.  I usually call this dimension MQY or XTD if I have more than Month, Quarter and Year calculations.

Period to Date in a TM1 cube:

The rule behind the calculation is written as such:

And the attributes of the time dimension Months are:

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