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Share your model design best practices – November 2024 Community Challenge
We’re excited to announce our second Best Practices Challenge of the year! This Challenge series is open for Community members to share their expertise and tips on a specific topic. Join us to spotlight your knowledge and explore fresh ideas from other members in Community! For our second Best Practices challenge, we’re…
Celebrating 100K Community members!
Thank you, Community! We’re thrilled to announce that we have reached 100,000 registered users, all thanks to you — our incredible members! Your creativity, commitment to helping others and continued enthusiasm has made the Community a special place for our members. We know the Community is the one place within the entire…
Anaplan Academy is getting an upgrade!
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…
Did You Know: Mastering Anaplan color matching
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…

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October 2024 Community Member Spotlight: Cianna Bramley
This month, we are excited to feature @cianna.bramley as our Community Member Spotlight! Cianna is a Model Optimization Manager, Community Boss Employee, and has been with Anaplan for over seven years. Cianna, who leads the Model Optimization Team, worked with her team this year to launch an eight-part series in Community…
Event recording available! Polaris use cases & best practices
If you missed our event yesterday, Polaris Use Cases and Best Practices, a recording is now available. In this event, Rob Marshall (@rob_marshall) from Anaplan, John Dorma (@johndorma) from Twelve Consulting, and Harshita Mysore Shankar (@HarshitaMysoreShankar) from Adobe discuss Polaris, how it differs from Classic, use…
October 2024 platform releases
Check out the latest Anaplan feature updates and enhancements from October 2024. Our full list of release notes can be viewed here. Mobile Create Workflow tasks on mobile Workflow owners can now create page and group tasks directly from any Anaplan page on Mobile. Assignees will receive a notification and can complete the…
Event recording available! Modeling tips and tricks
Last month we hosted a challenge inviting Community members to share their thoughts on modeling best practices — over 30 tips were shared! Yesterday, we held an event highlighting that guidance every model builder should know. Jason Blinn (@jasonblinn), Principal Solution Architect and Employee Community Boss at Anaplan,…
2025 Recertification update
We're working on enhancements to the certification program, focused on further elevating the quality and credibility of our certified professionals. These improvements will highlight the expertise of our super users to provide a distinct advantage in the competitive market. We expect to share more details in the spring of…
Organizing templates for data imports
Author: Vinay Varadaraj Mirajkar is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Senior Solution Architect at Anaplan. I am sure many of us have seen the below message many times in our experience, and at times it may be very time consuming to retrieve the file which was used to create the import action. And there are also chances…
Recording now available! October 30 quarterly platform release event
If you missed our October 30 platform release event, the recording is now available! In this webinar, we highlight the most recent feature releases and how to take advantage of these in your environment. Our expert-led session demonstrates new features and innovations, provides a technical deep-dive and “how-to”, followed…
Convert CUMULATE functions to PREVIOUS | Model Optimization Team series
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…
Survey invitation: BARC's Financial Consolidation & Group Accounting 25
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…
Driving business transformation with Alessio Pagliano — Journey | Anaplan Community Podcast
Tune in today for a conversation on driving business transformation as a CoE Leader! We welcome Alessio Pagliano (@Alessio_Pagliano) to Journey, an Anaplan Community podcast along with host Dennis Lemoine (@DennisL), Director of Customer Engagement & Experience. Alessio has been in the Anaplan ecosystem for seven years,…

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Mistake Proofing for filling & submitting weekly timesheet
I would like to suggest one though for Mistake Proofing for filling & submitting weekly timesheet. Currently i have to resubmit timesheets for past few weeks & its really headache as billing cycle comes closer it pop ups even on vacation or out of office. My suggestion will be - is there we can integrate date & timestamp…
Request to add more detailed messages for AnaplanV2 connectors in the Informatica session log
The Anaplan V2 Connector currently does not record session logs adequately, often only logging generic messages. WRITER_1_*_1> CCI_WRITER_1000 [2024-09-13 14:27:58.498] [ERROR] Write Failed. Internal Error: Adapter Write returned Failure!!! This leads to delays in problem identification and requires additional tasks, such…
Anaplan Data Orchestrator - Missing Features
I have been playing around with ADO for weeks, I must say it is a powerful tool. I understand it is evolving but I think these features should be part of ADO when more features are released. When the model object is deleted in the model after the creation of Link in ADO, Link in ADO should get disabled or should break the…
Lookups to apply to LISS Parent Line items
Hi Anaplan Community, I'm encountering an issue with my Anaplan model where a lookup function isn't picking up values from line item subset with line items that have "Is summary" turned on. If I keep the "Is summary" checked in the source module, the only way I can retrieve the values in this line is by using the "SELECT"…
ADO Access
Hi Everyone, Can anyone will help me how can i get the access for Anaplan Data Orchestrator(ADO). Regards Rakesh Mutha
Feature Request: Add missing countries to the country list
The Geo-mapping downloads section kindly provides a list of countries and their Anaplan IDs, but unfortunately this list is far from perfect. A few more countries need to be added, here is a modest example that we specifically need: • Cayman Islands • Faroe Islands • French Polynesia • Guam • Macao • New Caledonia • Puerto…
AutoFit for Dimensions in UX Grids
Idea: When publishing grids on UX, Anaplan has introduced the '"set column width as default", which has been very helpful in a lot of ways. Although, in a number of cases whilst publishing grids, requirement comes to publish more than one dimension in rows. In such cases, default width doesn't work help necessarily, since…
Add option to Plot Leading Zeros on Charts
Within the Data options of charts, Anaplan currently has an option to configure whether trailing zeros are plotted or not. This is very useful. However, there is very often also the need to control whether leading zeros are plotted or not and this option is not currently available. This idea request is therefore to add an…
Actions Tab Improvements
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: Looking to review trend Process executions and durations. How often is this impacting your users? We are currently implementing API…
Synchronize Line Item Subset based on Line Item in the UX
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: The line items which the LISS were sourced from are not sync in the apps or UX pages. This is confusing for our users where some…

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How to make picklist selection user dependent
I have a situation where target lineitem is populated based on the picklist selection. The problem is when multiple users are making the selection, the latest selection is being used. I need this to be dependent on users i.e., one user selection shouldn't affect the other.
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Level 3. Finalize Assignment button in dashboard
Hello, About "Finalize Assignment". There is not much info about this action in training material nor in the community. What does it supposed to do? Thanks,
明細データの合計
下記のようなデータで、Flgの合計が1以上ならXのような式を作りたいのですが、どうすればいいでしょうか
モデル　リストを入れ子に
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Can someone plz post a relevant use case and user story related to investment banking
I have completed my level1 and 2 certification, I am looking to go little deeper into investment banking for an asset management company use cases, modules and lists. appreciate your feed backs and posts bala
Cloudworks Data Encryption
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…
Anaplan API: Could not initialise service credentials (Anaplan API: Invalid certificate-alias provid
Hi, I am testing an Anaplan Connect upgrade and am struggling to get our scripts to run. We had recently had our certificate renewed and I have refreshed the KeyStoreAlias in line with live scripts. I am getting the following error message now: "Anaplan API: Could not initialise service credentials (Anaplan API: Invalid…
ZIP Level Codes for Geo Mapping
Hello, We have the ZIP Level subscription for Geo Mapping and I was trying to find the codes for ZIP (similar to State/County). Any idea how do I use that? I could not make ZIP code work directly as a territory layer (works with Lat/Lon as marker layer. Appreciate the help!
Can Connection Strings Be Used Instead of SAS Tokens for Azure Connections in Cloudworks?
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…