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In the Anaplan Community, we believe that growth comes from connecting, collaborating, and sharing knowledge. Every day we see our members coming together to share ideas, solve problems, and support one another in forum discussions, blog posts, and beyond. As we start the new year, we’re taking a moment to reflect on the…
Whether you’re in recovery mode from the holidays or goal-setting mode for 2025, it’s time to start thinking about what you want to accomplish this year! To inspire you, five of our Community Bosses volunteered to share their plans for the year, what they hope to work on and achieve, and goals they are setting for…
Author: Jonathan Cushing is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Senior Consultant at Vuealta Consulting. The labor government is aiming to deliver 1.5 million new homes by 2029; this could create an additional 350,000 jobs and a further £100 billion in economic activity compared with the last five years. Clearly this…
Author: Arun Thakar is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Vice President in the banking industry. Whether you are just starting out as a solution architect, or you’ve worked on several models you may benefit from a refresher on some of solution architecture’s key principles. It’s important to remember that these are not…
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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…
Check out the latest Anaplan feature updates and enhancements in our December 2024 release notes. The information below offers supplemental information to that post. UX Filter across line items (end users) End users can now apply filters across line items to a grid in boards and worksheets. Regardless of the datatype of…
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…
Hello Anaplan Community! Welcome to the Model Optimization team's monthly blog post. This is our last post in an eight-part series, on 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,…
Author: Taryn Townsend is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Senior Manager at Deloitte Consulting. It is always an honor for me to be able to share perspectives with you, the Anaplan Community, as I strive to learn and grow as a part of this ecosystem. As 2024 draws to a close to give way to crafting New Year’s resolutions…
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…
When a CSV is imported if the file does not have headers and the data in last column (or multiple last columns) of the first row is blank the last column is ignored and not available as part of the import. How often is this impacting your users? This impacts multiple clients, when it is an issue then it impacts frequently.…
Raising for @EmmaPF In management reporting can we get an undo button? Allows you to undo accidents made during editing
As a workspace administrator/Page builder/Tenant Administrator, I would strongly recommend ALM for Pages functionality to limit the selection of source models to ONLY model pairs with active and valid ALM synchronisation links. So that Anaplan eliminates the possibility of allowing users to set completely different models…
Raising for @EmmaPF In management reporting is it possible to link commentary boxes to versions? e.g. Version A may have lots of commentary about revenue and very little on COGS, Version B has little on Rev and lots on COGS - this will make our report spacing look awkward.
Raising for @EmmaPF In management reporting it would be really useful for end users to have the ability to make notes for presentation - similar to the notes function at the bottom of PPT slides that allows users to add a commentary that doesn't appear in the presentation/pdf version.
Raising for @EmmaPF Would it be possible to get a Management Reporting Spell Checker feature like what Microsoft apps currently have for commentary boxes.
Raising for @EmmaPF Is it possible to have different types of page builder access? End users may want to move boxes around depending on commentary - ideally we would not want to give them full page builder access. New user role, like page editor, but is only applicable for Management Report pages
Raising for @EmmaPF In management reporting we have been having version control issues if saving a page whilst multiple people are editing. Ideally is there a way having multiple people editing at the same time? Alternatively is possible to lock the page while one person is making changes and state who is in there making…
Raising for @EmmaPF In management reporting can we define the position of cards e.g. option to enter x mm from top left / top right, similar to PPT positioning?
Raising for @EmmaPF In management reporting, when you highlight a group of cards and then stretch them to fit the page, they can become overlapped, would be good that when you change the page size it changes accordingly or when you change dimensions of cards they also act accordingly. Similar to the 'group objects' in…
Hello, Is there a way to fetch module's Change data capture or History through an API?
Can anyone tell me why I am not getting the Explainability option in right side panel while doing panIQ
I've successfully built out a Power BI semantic model that appears to connect to Anaplan just fine. When I created the model, I logged into the Anaplan Connector using my company SSO. Once the credentials were validated, I selected the Export Action that I had previously created and loaded the data. Initially, all data…
Hi Anaplan Community, I'm currently using Cloudworks to integrate with Azure Blob Storage. In my setup, I see the option to enter a SAS token for authentication, but there is no field to enter a connection string. I have reviewed this Anapedia documentation, and it only references SAS tokens. Is there a way to use…
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
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…
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