Product Q&A

Hi Celonis Community, I’m working on optimizing data jobs in Celonis Data Integration for a client with an extremely heavy SAP system (Saturn). Our data jobs currently take around 1.5 hours to process, and the client wants to reduce this to 0.5 hours. Despite optimizing SQL queries (e.g., early filtering, minimizing joins) and disabling unnecessary objects, the massive data volume seems to be the main bottleneck. Here are some examples of the volumes we’re handling: - SalesOrderScheduleLine Transformation: 119M rows in CDPOS, 59M in CDHDR, cost of 24M.- CreditMemoItem Transformation: 123M in VBAP, 824M in VBFA, 178M in VBRP, cost of 83M.- CustomerInvoice Transformation: Similar volumes, 824M in VBFA, 178M in VBRP, cost of 83M. We’ve explored strategies like incremental loads and partitioning, but the sheer volume from Saturn (e.g., 824M rows in VBFA) still slows us down. I found in the documentation that the Payment Term Checker slows with 100M+ invoices, suggesting infrastructure migh

Good dayI want to add a filter to this table that shows only the Functional locations (first column) where one of the Material_IDs has a Physical count of 0. Then it must show all the Materials for that Functional location even if its not 0. So the criteria is 1 or more of the materials in the Functional location must be 0 then that functional locational with its other materials should be shown. Below is an example in yellow: Both functional locations A-IAA-BO4-225-HEC-008’s material id must be shown here since one of them is 0. How can I do that?  

Hi everyone, I have a question regarding Action Flow. I use a Get Rows module and get two bundles as a Output. Once I wanna use the two bundles in a further module within the Action Flow, I cannot select any of my columns I defined in my Get Rows module. The only columns I can select is “Total number of bundles”, “Bundle order position”, “undefined”. I haven’t found any documentation or similar issues in the community. If anybody has an idea how I can select my defined columns highly welcome to respond. Thank youAndreas

I would like to create a KPI to count the cases of the previous month do a dropdown but I keep getting a message that "The aggregation function MAX cannot be used together with a dimension function input. Please check that there are no aggregations and dimensions used together as function inputs.” .Have you got idea how to do it?MY pql: COUNT( DISTINCT CASE WHEN ROUND_MONTH("EKKO"."AEDAT") = MAX(ROUND_MONTH("EKKO"."AEDAT"))THEN "EKKO"."MANDT"END)

Hello, I'm working on connecting serviceNow to Celonis, I did Task Extraction (OK) → Task Transformation (OK) and when I loaded data it works (loaded rows OK), but when I press "set as activity table" it gives me the message :  "Preview not available". A table preview is currently not available. The cause may be due to a missing data pool or connectivity issues” without columns to select “Case ID”, “brief description”, “date”.I need to know why the columns are not showing up in views (after transformation task) but showing up in the original tables….for information: I tested the data in task extraction, task transformation and loaded data model and they contain all data of the views. I also execute data job for all, but the columns still don't appear.Thank you in advance for your help,

Hi Team,I am facing issue while creating dropdown, I have used below PQL QueryCASE WHENRUNNING_TOTAL(SUM("PO_LINE_ITEM"."NET_VALUE_LINE_ITEM_IN_REPORTING_CURRENCY")) /GLOBAL(SUM("PO_LINE_ITEM"."NET_VALUE_LINE_ITEM_IN_REPORTING_CURRENCY")) <= 0.8 THEN 'Top 20% Vendors' ELSE 'Remaining Vendors'ENDwhile using this query in the dropdown i am getting only one option either 'Top 20% Vendors' or  'Remaining Vendors' but i want both the options in the dropdown. So pls kindly revert ASAP.Thanks,Kiranmayi

Hi all,I’m a beginner of Celonis. I belong to process office department, I’m in charge of CPM.I’ve done the 5 learning contents “Celonis Process Management (CPM)”. What should I learn next effectively?It seems that there are the cource which is “Your journey”, so I think this is effective for me.

Hello everyone,I am facing an issue while working with Celonis Studio. I have created a variable as follows:YEAR(ADD_MONTHS(ROUND_MONTH(MAX("view_meviy"."timestamp")), -1)) ||MONTH(ADD_MONTHS(ROUND_MONTH(MAX("view_meviy"."timestamp")), -1))Now, I want this variable to respond to the date filter in my report. Specifically, I want the variable to update its value to reflect the previous month based on the selected date in the filter.I would appreciate any assistance and guidance from the community on how to properly set this up.

Hi Team, Has anyone built solution for Tax reconciliation analysis based on General Ledgers for Indirect Tax. We are trying to automate tax reconciliation which will have analysis basis documents types, credit, debits for each GL account. Any suggestion on the SAP tables, logic are welcome.

Hi all,I was wondering about a minor style change of the platform I noticed yesterday.Next to all the applied filters where there is the a small visual indicating how many cases (in % and absolut by hovering over it) are currently selected. This was for a long time a Ring chart. Suddenly it became a pie chart yesterday. Introducing the added problem, that the % number in the middle is poorly visible if the background is split in half into darkblue/light grey by the pie cutting trough it.For a colleague of mine the change was already present yesterday. For me only today.I haven’t about any release plans about this and am wondering about it.My Question is if I as an Analyst can influence that or if it is tied to the user account, of if it is just a given by the platform and we have to accept it. 

I am unable to get the option to schedule a notebook in my ML workbench.Does it require admin access to get the option?  Documentation says to have a valid executable file, which I have. Any code to be written in the notebook to make it eligible for scheduling?  

Hi everyone,I received the following error message during the last few data uploads:The load failed: Load failed. Error Message: Could not execute foreign key join: there are duplicates on both sides of the specified key relationship. Table "PM_AFRU": key columns ("MANDT", "AUFPL", "APLZL"), key ('100', '1016228353', '00000001'), rows 0 and 1. Table "AFVC": key columns ("MANDT", "AUFPL", "APLZL"), key ('100', '1018097598', '00000001'), rows 1603274 and 1608762.Everything was working fine about a year ago, and I have checked the table relationships—they are correct. What could be the issue?Can anyone help?THX, M

I would like to create a use case to analyse the throughput times of finished goods flow from one warehouse to another.Unfortunately, there are no pre-existing data connectors available for this particular use where i would be especially looking into goods issue and goods receipt.I did go through the celonis academy trainings but the trainings were basic and i cannot seem to apply what i learnt in the trainings to my use case.Does anybody have any help/ leads?Best RegardsKenny

HI Team,I have One table which has Vehicle ID and other Table which has PartDetails. I want to count claim number from this but both columns are coming from different tables. When I tried using this with DOMAIN TABLE it is giving me following error message:-Pull-Up-function could not be executed. PU_COUNT_DISTINCT: Cannot execute PU-function on tables [<DOMAIN_TABLE ( "O_CUSTOM_CLAIM"."VEHICLE_ID" , "O_CUSTOM_CLAIMLINEDETAILS"."PVTXT" )>] and ["o_custom_Claim"], since they do not have a 1:N relationship. You might want to make use of the BIND function. Join path: [DOMAIN_TABLE ( "O_CUSTOM_CLAIM"."VEHICLE_ID" , "O_CUSTOM_CLAIMLINEDETAILS"."PVTXT" )]1 --> N[o_custom_ClaimLineDetails]N <-- 1[o_custom_ClaimLines]N <-- 1[o_custom_Claim]. For more information on the join path, search for "Join functionality" in PQL documentation.Can anyone assist?

Hi all,In my View analysis I added the filters into the ‘Show Filter Bar’ that resided on the right side of the view. However, once the same view is opened in overlay, the ‘Show Filter Bar’ is not visible - hence I have no access to the filters.  Is there a way to include a Filter Bar into a view opened in overlay? Thanks and kind regards,Mateusz

Out of the blue, every single Excel module in Action Flows has stopped working. Has anyone gone through something similar recently? Has any announcement on this topic been done by Celonis?The screenshot of the error is meant to help better understand the issue as it seems to be a simple ‘access’ problem, but every account that’s been used within those modules has the same issue and all of then started at the same time, so it feels something structural is going on…Either way, if anyone has some insight on this it would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! 

Hello celonauts, I have a question. I'm creating an action flow that will access an API, but it needs to generate a token and then go to access. In the first step, I generate my token, but it comes composed. I would like to get only the part that brings the token: Example{"token_type":"Bearer","expires_in":3599,"ext_expires_in":3599,"access_token": "value-token"}.I need to get only the "value-token" part after the "access_token":Is there any way I can do a spit or something like that? I don't know how to get out the other side.  

I have built process maps using OCPM. When event timestamps are equal for more than one activity, the events are sequenced based on alphabetical order of event names in process explorer. This is misleading and does not make sense as it is supposed to be in the sequence of sort order.Is there a way to configure sorting order based on sort column when events timestamp are equal?

Hi Team, I am trying to create a column chart where I am using  2 tables custody and activity_table .However I am end up with no common table error. The joining in the datamodel as follows:custody(N) ← MCA_CA_ID_NEW(1) → Line_table(N) ← Head_table(1) → Activity_table(N).How I can write the pql statement for this .  

As evident from the above image, there are further sub categories in the metrics column. Can we create an OLAP table in similar fashion? 

Hi, in the legacy view there was possible to change background color of textbox, buttons etc. but I cannot find a way how to do it within the new views. I tried to do it through the YAML but it’s not working. So if someone has an idea it would be awesome!

Hello, I am trying to create an ActionFlow for updating augmented attributes but its keeps giving me errors. The operation failed with an error. 400: Failed to update augmented attribute. Failed to query engine to map identifier from one value to separated columns. Unknown query engine failure I created an augmented attrobute in legacy views with a unique identifier. Now in the ActionFlow I do all my selections with the correct identifier:   And I get the correct result in the input: But it doesnt update the augmented attribute due to the error: As you can see the identifier is the same. What am I doing wrong here?

Hi everyone I need to add 3 kpi’s together (new views) each with their own filters. Here is an example of one. How can I add these KPIs together without having to build these filters into my PQL. If you save the  KPI it does not save the filters with it. Can I maybe let it write to a variable with the filters? Or is the only way building the filters into the PQL with Case when or PU function?  

I am trying to retrieve a count of a specific column based on a **CASE WHEN** condition using PQL. However, I am encountering the following error:   *"A PQL error is preventing this query from executing. No common table could be found. The tables ["LINK"] and ["JS_PGT_Resolved"] are connected, but have no common table. This means that they do not have a direct (or indirect) 1:N or N:1 relationship. Join path: [LINK]N <-- 1![SUPPORTCASE]!1 --> N[JS_PGT_Resolved]. For more information on the join path, search for 'Join functionality' in PQL documentation."*   I would appreciate any guidance on how to resolve this issue. Thank you! 

Hi,I was wondering the following: I want to export my entire data pool (extraction, transformations and data models) using the pyCelonis API. I have been trying to code it myself but there doesn't seem to be a straight forward way to do it. I was wondering if any of you have been using this method and can help me find the right code to use.  The use case is to back up our work once per day. A very nice to have would be an additional script to use the exported data pools to automatically recreate the back-upped work.  In other words: Run script > back up written to files > run script > recreate celonis environment in case of total loss of data