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As we wrap up 2024, we’re excited to feature @seymatas1 as our final Community Member Spotlight of the year! Seyma has been part of the Anaplan ecosystem since 2020 and has contributed over 120 comments in the Community in the past two years. She became a Certified Master Anaplanner in the last year, and is an active…
Author: Taylor Giesler is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Director, Enterprise Performance Management at Alpha Alternatives. I have been a consultant for nearly four years now, and I have seen a lot of models, some easier to follow than others. The person building the model isn’t always the same person maintaining it…
Author: Abhishek Roy is a Certified Solution Architect , Sr. Platform Architect at Equinix and a member of their Anaplan CoE team. This article primarily covers a less explored API functionality that the Anaplan UX is based on and adds an element of automation and easy configuration to the otherwise manual time-taking and…
Author: Vinay Varadaraj Mirajkar is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Senior Solution Architect at Anaplan. When you think about creating simple workflows or enabling collaboration between/within the planning teams, some of the features which can help achieve this are: sharing pages, card comments, notifications, and last…
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Check out the latest Anaplan feature updates and enhancements in our November 2024 release notes. The information below offers supplemental information to that post. UX Axis label formatting Users can now format the label of numeric axes in charts. By selecting Manual as the label format, the following can be specified: A…
New look, new features, and a better learning experience! We're thrilled to announce that our Anaplan learning hub, Anaplan Academy, is getting a major upgrade! That's right, we've been hard at work behind the scenes to make your learning journey smoother, more engaging, and tailored to your needs. What you can expect with…
If you missed our event yesterday, November Challenge Recap: Model design best practices, a recording is now available. Last month, we invited the Anaplan Community to share their best advice for model design. In this recap event, speakers Rob Marshall (@rob_marshall) and Adam Trainer (@AdamT), both from Anaplan’s…
Author: Austin van der Linden is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Senior Model Builder at Hubspot. Hello Anaplan Community! In this 'How I Built It' Tutorial, I show how you can build functional P&Ls using line item subsets as a mapping tool. One of the cool functionalities provided with line item subsets is that you can…
Discover a better way to get the help you need and submit cases At Anaplan, our goal is to deliver a platform that’s as robust and stable as possible. But as with any software, there will always be issues that crop up from time to time. When they do, we know you want to find answers and get help as quickly as possible.…
Attention Financial Close & Consolidation customers: We invite you to assess your use of Anaplan by taking part in this year's BARC Financial Consolidation & Group Accounting Survey. Survey is completely anonymous and should take no more than 15 minutes to complete. Follow this link to get started: Valued participants can…
The product and UX team at Anaplan is looking for your feedback on your current modeling experience, specifically focused on building an appreciation for the challenges you face as a model builder in Anaplan. This survey is designed to capture this detail, so that we can explore how to simplify and accelerate the modeling…
Hello Anaplanners! November is a time of thanksgiving in the U.S. — and while I know our Community is worldwide — there is never a bad time to show thanks, right?! Ginger, here. If you don’t know me, I manage the platform our Community runs on, and also a lot of the content posted weekly, along with my amazing content…
Hello! Welcome to the Model Optimization team's monthly blog post. This is an eight-part series, following the topics we see occurring most frequently in slow customer models. Our aim is to inform and guide how to build with best practice intentions for these model building topics. Each month, two of our analysts will take…
Author: Brent Orr is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Global Data Architect at Accenture. Hello Anaplan Community! The objective of this ‘Did You Know’ tutorial is to guide users on how to match the background colors of Anaplan management reports to maintain consistency with other pages in Anaplan. The video is below, but…
Many of the projects have a recurring activity of Model copy and Archive every month and there are many processes before and after them which can be automated through the execution of Actions/Process and can be triggered by cloud-works or similar integration tools. I would love if the Anaplan comes up with a action which…
Navigating to a page using the link in Workflow takes you to a separate interface instead of the actual app. This limits the ability for users to navigate to other pages once they've opened a task. It would be more convenient for users to be able to switch between pages after opening a workflow. This could be accomplished…
In as much detail as possible, describe the problem or experience related to your idea. Please provide the context of what you were trying to do and include specific examples or workarounds: Currently if the admins want to roll out the information to all of its users (without sending emails or use group chats) , there is…
How are AI consulting agencies reshaping industries by offering tailored solutions for automation and decision-making? Let’s discuss the impact of AI on business operations, cost efficiency, and innovation. Have you partnered with an AI consulting agency, or are you considering one? Share your experiences or questions…
In as much detail as possible, describe the problem or experience related to your idea. Please provide the context of what you were trying to do and include specific examples or workarounds: Use Microsoft EntraID to connect to Anaplan and use this EntraID to connect to an Azure Blob, instead of using a SAS token. Our…
The workarounds are not appropriate for my current requirement so i need to add a landing module then map it which is very costly iin terms of workspace as the data sets are very large for this client. ask: Would like to map in bound data to a non-native version using a mapping table. workaround: we set the import to ask…
Besides being able to follow specific topics. Can the community provide ability to follow specific community members. Hopefully not a big change as the community already has the facility specific topics of interest. Some members insight are just worth the regular read, specially the ones where it is a response to someone's…
Workflow Builder Enhancement It would be fantastic if you could toggle the option to include or exclude emails generated from Anaplan from the Workflow builder. I have a two step machine task process in workflow that is published to the UX. The process steps are to run an action in the workforce planning model to prepare…
Description: In NUX, When we selects an item in a page and copy to the destination, it copies multiple times. This behaviour is while replicating an end user activity. Steps to recreate: · In NUX, select the required item to copy and select copy option · Select destination and click on copy · During this time, the system…
When i open the Model map in bigger Models, Anaplan explodes… I need a smaller relative model map related to the Module im working right now. And just a few levels (1-2) of offsprings would be enough. //GP
Hey builders! I'm tasked with designing an approval process through Workflow and doing this for the first time. This is a CapEx Request approval flow in which CapEx Projects roll up to Profit Centers. Approvers are assigned at the Profit Center level and go through several sequential stages of approvals. Below is my 2 step…
Hello, I am working on this exercise, and I am stuck. This is the view I have and I am trying to do the following. The UX page should include: Region, Product Family, and Time context selectors. Stock Exception count by Country and Region at monthly, half-year, and year time periods. Stock Exception count by Product Family…
Referring to Anaplan CloudWorks guidelines (published in May 2023) :“Your cloud sources (such as AWS S3, Azure Blob, and Google BigQuery) must be accessible via public APIs. Make sure your data is not encrypted or compressed.”“CloudWorks supports these file types: csv, csv000, xls, txt, xml, and pdf.” Is there any plan or…
We are looking for Anaplan end-users to provide feedback on their experiences with the Excel add-in. Interested individuals will respond to this 5-minute survey to help us understand personal needs and behavior when using the add-in. The feedback provided by survey takers is essential to the roadmap of Anaplan's products.…
Anaplan Champions! The Community team just posted this announcement that certification badges may not be showing up on your profile probably until next year. Rest assured, you will get credit once you complete and pass the exams. https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Blog/Badges-Back-Soon/ba-p/123385
I executed the below command through talend remote server java -classpath /home/talend/properties/eur_finance_bi/anaplan/anaplan-connect-1.4.3-jar-with-dependencies.jar com.anaplan.client.Program -k /home/talend/properties/eur_finance_bi/anaplan/<jks file path>.jks -ka <keystore> -kp <keystore password> -workspace…
We have configured SSO for authentication in Anaplan against SAML2.0 AAD, We have a requirement that user should be able to login to his anaplan account without entering username and password using SSO as user is already logged into machine. We want to Authenticate Anaplan User from React Application and want to fetch…
Users may encounter error and warning messages in PlanIQ. The table below includes descriptions of the messages and details what should be done in order to address them, where applicable. Message types: * Errors will fail the relevant PlanIQ step. Users will have to follow the instructions in order to avoid the errors. *…
I'm trying to evaluate the statistical forecast by using Apply Hold Periods. But when I set them, the almost of product's best-fit forecast is set to New Item Forecast. How can I correctly evaluate the forecast?
Hi All, Wanted to see if anyone has used a Scatter/Bubble chart together with more than a few hundred items? Recently put a Scatter/Bubble chart in a grid with ~8K points and the dashboard seems extremely slow now, was wondering if that's something other users have experienced as well. Don't think that it's a model…
