Posted by lm on May 4, 2009 under Corvu | 
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In the CorVu scheduler, you can copy a file and give it a unique file name. A common use of this would be to put the date at the end of a file name. Running the scheduler every week or month would then give you a set of dated ‘snapshots’
In the scheduler, at the point [...]
Posted by lm on April 25, 2009 under Corvu | 2 Comments to Read
In CorVu, you can automatically populate your date prompts, based on a pre determined formula.
Firstly, determine the format of the date required (and I am assuming it’s already been set up in the Knowledge Library). This can be seen by simply putting a prompt on the field and clicking a date. In this example, I’ll [...]
Posted by lm on January 11, 2009 under Corvu, Corvu 5.2 | Be the First to Comment
With CorVu, you can easily use dates in formulas and mathematical calculations.
The easiest one is to create a numerical column and subtract one date from another, @date1 - @date 2. This will give the difference in days between the two dates.
The second way is to add/subtract a number to/from a date. This can be [...]
Posted by lm on December 14, 2008 under Corvu | Be the First to Comment
As promised, here is a short note on the use of the token function in corvu formula.
Lets say you wanted to break the address out of a delimited string. For example, turn..
4258970|Juniper House|Mount Avenue|London|W5 1QA
into..
Juniper House Mount Avenue London W5 1QA.
The Corvu formula guide tells us that the token function is token(s,d[n]). What this [...]
Posted by lm on November 22, 2008 under Corvu 5.2 | Be the First to Comment
Working my way through the release documentation for 5.2.495, the first main release of 5.2, I have picked out some of the bits that initially caught my eye and I thought may be of interest…
1. Expanded Dynamart sizes
For those of you with large amounts of data (no boasting now) you will be pleased to hear [...]
Posted by lm on November 10, 2008 under Corvu | Read the First Comment
On occasions you may want to run a CorVu scheduler only after another event. In this case, having it started automatically at a specific time may not be a viable option. Obviously the CorVu administrator can connect to the server and execute the batch file or kick off the CorVu scheduler directly. It becomes [...]
Posted by lm on November 2, 2008 under Consulting | Be the First to Comment
As a contractor, I have worked in a vast array of different sites - from small one office setups, to councils to multinationals. All have different ways of approaching their CorVu installation and all have variations on success. What I’d like to do is to examine what I believe are some of the factors [...]
Posted by lm on October 22, 2008 under Corvu 5.2 | Be the First to Comment
Latest on Corvu 5.2 is:
CorBusiness 5.20.495 is expected to be assessed for Production release at the end of this week. The installer, documentation, menus, graph templates and portal are either already available or scheduled to be completed by Friday.
Blogging:
By the way I will be adding a new blog next Monday which is the 27th of October..
Posted by lm on October 19, 2008 under Forecasting | Be the First to Comment
Sales Forecasting
When Corvu 5.2 gets released I want to do a more in depth analysis of the forecasting module. In the meantime, I thought I would start with an introduction to the subject of forecasting in general…
Overview
A sales forecast is a prediction based on past performance and an analysis of expected internal and external expected [...]
Posted by lm on September 19, 2008 under Corvu 5.2 | 4 Comments to Read
After a fair wait, the first sizable upgrade to the 5 series of CorVu is finally upon us.
It has actually been around for months, but you have not been able to get your mitts on it as it’s been going through several rounds of evaluating, testing and refining– something you’ll be able to see [...]