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How I Built It: Route planning — The “Traveling Salesman Problem” This ‘How I Built It’ video presents an Anaplan model that simulates a simplified “Traveling Salesman Problem” by using a fixed set of five cities and generating all possible route combinations. Users input a list of cities, and the model systematically…
Author: Abhishek Singh, Certified Master Anaplanner & Engineering Manager at ABINBEV. Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is one of the most valuable governance features available in Anaplan. It allows model builders to make, test and validate structural changes in a Development model before deploying them to…
Author: Andre Lie is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Manager at Alpha Alternatives. In this ‘How I Built It’ video, I demonstrate an end-to-end bidirectional integration between Anaplan Data Orchestrator (ADO) and Snowflake. The integration highlights how ADO acts as a centralized orchestration layer that manages and…
Anaplan's next quarterly platform release webinar will be held July 29, 2026 at 8 a.m. Pacific Time. During this session, we will explore the latest features so you can optimize your Anaplan experience. Our expert-led session will equip you with a practical guide and live demonstrations to help you get the most out of new…
Author: Karim Bhaidani is a Certified Master Anaplanner & Transformation Director at Spaulding Ridge. In this 'How I Built It' video, I demonstrate how to build Process Logging in Anaplan to enable non-workspace admins to view a summary of the most recent hour and date any process ran within the model on a front end…
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Author: Dave Waller, Principal Product Manager at Anaplan. Managing high-volume operational plans often introduces administrative friction. When an organization scales its planning cycles to handle hundreds or thousands of individual budget, headcount, or promotional requests, processing them one by one is highly…
You've built your Optimizer model with an objective and many constraints and variables, and now you want to test some changes to it. Where is the copying button? Many users ask for copying capability, and we're actively working to improve the user experience. However, you can already copy an action using the modeling…
Author: Reena Sethy is a Director, Product Management at Anaplan. Quality data is the backbone of modern decision-making, but it’s often compromised because of "all-or-nothing" approach to data loading. With a single invalid record, it can invalidate the entire batch, and a domino effect of processing delays, data…
Author: Werner Priels is Product Manager at Anaplan, focusing on Financial Consolidation. Mapping source data to the right targets is the backbone of a successful consolidation process. While traditional many-to-one mapping gets the job done, complex real-world data at times used to require workarounds, manual…
Author: Nizar Cherkaoui is a Certified Master Anaplanner and EPM Manager and Solution Architect at VISEO. In this How I Built It video, I demonstrate how to design period-driven variance reporting in Anaplan when comparison logic is unknown upfront and flexibility is required. Instead of embedding period choices directly…
Check out the latest Anaplan feature updates and enhancements in our June 2026 official release notes. There you'll find information on: User Experience On-the-fly chart creation CoModeler Optimizer Integration with Workflow Extended runtime Forecaster Workflow Workflow builder undo and redo Batch submission and approvals…
Author: Junqi Xue is a Certified Master Anaplanner and consultant at valantic. When working across multiple models in ALM, it's common to encounter structural changes and revision tags that track updates. These revision tags are critical for synchronizing changes between production and development environments. Not all…
Virtual Dataset basics: Controlled sharing of data across Dataspaces Author: John Carter is a Sr Principal Product Manager at Anaplan. As enterprises expand connected planning across finance, workforce, supply chain, and beyond, the complexity of data orchestration grows rapidly. More data sources, more integrations, and…
Author: Damien Bouquier has been a Certified Master Anaplanner for 5+ years and has developed solutions across a wide range of industries for FP&A, supply chain, and sales operations planning use cases. Shifting gears: From dashboard-centric to workflow-centric applications Are your users getting lost in a sea of…
We use several languages and currencies in our environment. It would be usefull to switch the default number format of number line Items depending on what country the user come from how he set it driver based //GP
When i setup my Workflow with "Allow next occurence to run if previous is not complete" then it comes to errors from time to time without a reason, and it continues as it shoult. BUT why do i have to confirm that? These "Action required" annoys me. And then i have to find in somewhere a hidden menu to agree that there was…
when multiple users open a sharepoint file, sharepoint has avatars at the top right showing: who's in the file/location where in the file they are and whether they are making changes, or just have it open it looks something like this: anaplan should also have this function. when multiple model builders are working thru the…
I am fairly new to Anaplan reporting, I might not yet know of a workaround, For various reports we might want to plot different measures with different scales. For instance the evolution of a population having a car and a percentage of said population. I would imagine a column graph for the population, and a line for the…
Hi, As mentioned on our ticket CS0045337, workflows don't work accordingly the beaviour. If the creator of a workflow quite the company and the workflow is parametred to work with the trigger permission — we always disable the option "Run with origin user" — it has to work, such as cloudworks work. The change of ownership…
How I got a subtotal to subtract one of its children — and still roll up correctly to the total — without touching the parent. The problem I had a P&L subtotal — I'll call it Net Other Income & Expense — in a standard list hierarchy. By default, Anaplan sums the children into the parent: Net Other Income & Expense ├──…
Hello, I'm submitting a question, or an enhancement request if this doesn't already exist. In Anaplan FCR, the Workflow module currently supports two separate task types: creating files via an export task, and sending emails to non-Anaplan users. My request, which would be very valuable for day-to-day FP&A use, is the…
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: One of the biggest challenges when maintaining large and complex Anaplan models is understanding the impact of changes made to line…
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: We have modules which should be accessible on UX but not in Anaplan XL or Excel Add-ins. For example we have employee data which…
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, Anaplan UX charts support only a single Y-axis. This makes it difficult to visualize two related metrics with…
I am working on a use case where I need to display the top 5 lines of a module as individual lines, while grouping all remaining lines under an "Others" category. The module is dimensioned by multiple composite hierarchy lists, along with Time and Version. To achieve this, I need to use the RANK function with the Ranking…
We've been building a tool called aplan4sheets and we'd genuinely like input from this community — both on what we've built so far and on what we should prioritize next. The problem we set out to solve: Anaplan's Excel add-in is Windows-centric, and there's no real native way to pivot Anaplan data in Google Sheets. We…
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.…
Estimated Level of Effort:4-8 Hours of Model Building Level of Difficulty: Beginner Recommended Training: L2 Model Builder Training Persona: Casual Model Builder Potential ROI: Decreased planning time Increased accuracy of targets/spreads You Might Also Like: * Historical Snapshotting Top-Down Allocations Whether it's…
Retail Knowledge | Detecting Trend INTRODUCTION Using machine learning to detect a sales trend is a science and an art. Obviously no computer program or set of calculations could ever know everything that’s going on with your business. The creative side of detecting a trend is built upon your familiarity with the way your…
I have designed a simple new UX Page (Page:A) so it can be viewed on a regular laptop / monitor size screen. This Page (Page A) is also viewable on the Anapaln mobile App (with no loading issues), but involves lots of scrolling to see the whole Page content I have been trying to design a simple mobile App friendly size…
Please read out my latest article on Imports featured under best practices. https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Best-Practices/Importing-With-Varied-Dimensions/ta-p/89698 Misbah
I would like to reproduce the above stacked column graph in Anaplan, but can't get the labels on the bottom axis to appear in the same way. The best I have achieved is this (I have limited the data selection to make the issue more obvious). I have two columns for each month, but it doesn't show which is forecast and which…
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Hi, My current client has selected MuleSoft Connector to orchestrate the integrations between Anaplan and their legacy systems and they are asking what is the protocol and port(s) it uses to connect to Anaplan. I've searched through Anapedia and the Community and I was not able to find the answer, however I assume it uses…
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Join Anaplan experts for a practical deep dive into the Anaplan Audit Log and learn how organizations are using it to maintain robust security and compliance measures. Designed for workspace administrators, security and compliance teams, IT leads, and other hands-on Anaplan users looking to better understand how to track…
Anaplan's next quarterly platform release webinar will be held July 29 at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time. During this session, we will explore the latest features so you can optimize your Anaplan experience! Our expert-led session will equip you with live demonstrations to help you get the most out of new features and…
Join us as Anaplan experts share practical strategies for building smarter, more scalable models using Polaris and Planual best practices. During this session, attendees will learn how to: Learn how to align your model development with recommended Polaris and Planual best practices. See how to improve system performance…
