Units

Units are used as a standard for measurement of the same kind of quantity (think Unit of Measurement or UOM).

Giraffe comes pre-loaded with the following Units:

<aside> 👉 Your project will pre-load the imperial or metric units based on your location.

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<aside> 💡 The Unitless unit is great for calculations like ratios or reporting metrics like IRR that do not necessarily have a unit of measure.

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You can also create your own units to measure quantities relevant to your firm, like Time denominations.

In The Unit Configurator:

Click “new unit”

In the Measure Builder:

Type anything into the “Units” box. If it does not exist in the project yet, you’ll get a prompt to create the unit. Click the “create’ button.

If you would like to add a custom abbreviation and control subtotaling, edit the unit in the Unit Configuration

Enter display name, abbreviation

Toggle whether it can be subtotaled or hidden

Click ‘create unit’

Once a unit is created, it can be added to any measure from the drop down in the Measure Builder

The abbreviation displays in the report palette