A Best Practice Guide to Developing TM1 Rules（最佳实践指南开发TM1规则）.pdf

White Paper A Best Practice Guide to Developing TM1 Rules What You’ll Learn in This Chapter: When to use Rules vs. Consolidations vs. TurboIntegrator Best Practice Rules Syntax and Coding Conventions Rules Precedence Rules and Historical Data Recursion and the Stack Feeders Rules for Statistical Functions TM1 is an extremely flexible application development platform and includes all of the tools required to develop a complete application from end to end. The flexibility of the environment allows applications to be developed very quickly; application prototypes can be developed in a matter of hours and full applications can be developed in just days or weeks. The TM1 development environment is also very fast to learn with newcomers to TM1 capable of developing their own applications within just a couple of days of training. The system is very intuitive, especially for those who have developed complex spreadsheet models in the past. The flexibility described above enables applications to be built quickly and easily, however this level of flexibility can also have some undesirable side effects if projects are not developed or managed well. It is very easy to create “bad” applications that may solve specific business problems, but leave little room for future development and improvement. To ensure that the TM1 platform is fully leveraged and systems are developed to a high standard there are two key principles that are recommended: Implementation of systems that follow best practice development principles Management of TM1 projects using a methodology that complements the technology This document is intended to address the first point;