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Author: Marina Ketelslegers is a Certified Master Anaplanner and FP&A voice for Anaplan and AI passionate about CoE support, solution architecture, and training. Hello Anaplan Community! I’m sharing a short walkthrough of my Anaplan Center of Excellence (CoE) App designed to help new CoE leads set up their CoE with clarity…
Author: Vijay Pasumarthy is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Sr. Principal Consultant at Genpact. If you had two modules with a common dimension and wanted to show information from both on the same page, your options were limited: Build a new “combo” module and recreate all the line items or Drop two grid cards side by…
Author: Alejandro Gomez Sanchez, Certified Master Anaplanner, and Principal Consultant. Data orchestration is a remarkable capability. When done well, it is genuinely transformative: comprehensive, accurate and dependable data for decision-making is available instantly. Beyond the satisfaction of well-orchestrated data, my…
The first Community Challenge of 2026 is officially here, and it's all about preparing your models for the future with seamless annual rollovers! A well-built Anaplan model anticipates the future. One of the most critical, yet often overlooked, aspects of model design is preparing for the annual rollover. Models are often…
Author: Erik Svensson is a Certified Master Anaplanner and a Principal Solution Architect at Anaplan. Hello Anaplan Community! Thank you for checking out my ‘How I Built It’ tutorial. In this video, I demonstrate a powerful technique for creating dynamic user filters. This solution gives your end-users the flexibility to…
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You've spent days carefully crafting your model, eagerly awaiting that satisfying moment when the optimal solution appears, only to be met with the dreaded message: infeasible 😱 The excitement turns into a classic plot twist worthy of a detective novel. But don't worry! Here we have 3 practical tips to help you figure out…
Check out the latest Anaplan feature updates and enhancements in our January 2026 official release notes. The information below offers supplemental information to that post. Dataspaces in Anaplan Data Orchestrator Dataspaces are partitioned areas of a tenant-wide Anaplan Data Orchestrator instance. Integration…
Author: Veronica Pietrobon is a Product Manager at Anaplan. You can enhance your Anaplan Disclosure Management Word documents by using headers and footers, which work just as they do in Microsoft Office. To get them just right, it’s helpful to understand how both Word and Anaplan DM handle these elements. This guide will…
Author: Mark Warren is the Architecture and Performance Director at Anaplan. Anaplan Data Orchestrator (ADO) is used to connect, transform, and manage data from various sources to be used in Anaplan models. It is a data management system that enhances integration, efficiency, and data governance within the Anaplan…
Author: Werner Priels is Product Manager at Anaplan, focusing on Financial Consolidation. When managing multiple data interactions in Anaplan FCR, having a clear and transparent audit trail is not just a nice-to-have; it's a necessity. The out-of-the-box drillthrough feature is a powerful tool that provides deep insight…
Author: Parmod Kumar, Certified Solution Architect, and Financial Planning & Supply Chain Specialist at TCS. Reading time: approximately 8-10 minutes. Why the Polaris engine Is powerful and beautiful Polaris is Anaplan’s next‐generation calculation engine, built from the ground up to handle high dimensionality, sparse…
Author: Philipp Erkinger, Certified Master Anaplanner and Principal Solution Architect at Bedford Consulting. Dear Anaplan Community, The Anaplan Polaris Engine has brought a significant transformation in the way I construct and design Anaplan models. Over the past three years, I have had the privilege of working on…
Author: Marina Ketelslegers is a Certified Master Anaplanner and FP&A voice for Anaplan and AI passionate about CoE support, solution architecture, and training. I’ve seen how Anaplan Centers of Excellence (CoEs) start with strong momentum. There’s enthusiasm, executive support, and a clear ambition to make connected…
In the last post, we showed how to retrieve logs using our API. Today, we will also show how to automate an Optimizer process using our API. That way, you can schedule the solving of an Optimizer action using code. You can also use Anaplan Connect to automate the request, and soon you will be able to use Workflow as well.…
If you missed our January 29, 2026 platform release event, the recording is now available! In this webinar, we highlighted the most recent feature releases and how to take advantage of these in your environment. Our expert-led session demonstrated new features and innovations, provided a technical deep-dive and “how-to”,…
I would like to ask about the specifications for the Workflow Process Log. Background We have confirmed that the Process Log, which can be viewed via Explorer > Workflow > Process Log, is no longer visible after a certain period (approximately 3 months). However, we have received feedback from users that this retention…
If you’ve built complex Anaplan models, you’ve probably written formulas like this: IF A THEN IF B THEN IF C THEN Value1 ELSE Value2 ELSE Value3 ELSE Value4 It works. But it’s slow. It’s hard to debug. And six months later… even you won’t understand it. Let’s talk about why nested IFs hurt performance and how Line Item…
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, each individual grid on a UI/UX page needs to be edited as follows to change the Background color of the row headers and…
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: Add the ability to apply bold borders for each market section to clearly differentiate data in grids. As users drill down, the number…
Currently, when an error occurs in the web application, the error message shown to the user is very generic and does not provide enough detail to understand the root cause. To properly analyze the issue, users must manually access the server and inspect log files. In a recent case, the issue was caused by missing folder…
In the world of Anaplan, "Fake Time" lists are often a necessity when native time doesn't offer the flexibility your specific business case requires. However, the real magic happens when you can map those custom list items back to Native Time Periods. If you are working in a Polaris-enabled model, efficiency is the name of…
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: When in a View and adding conditional formatting, if you click the x in the top right-hand corner while you're editing a rule you…
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: In the earlier versions (XLCubed and FluenceXL), users always started directly in the folder tree, whereas now it takes quite a few…
Current behavior: When the Multi-Select Members option is enabled in the slicer settings, the user’s previous selections are not saved when reopening the workbook. As a result, users must reselect the slicer members each time they open the workbook. However, when the Multi-Select Members option is disabled, the previously…
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: I would like users that have been logged in and idle for 15 minutes to be automatically logged out as part of their security…
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Could not enable filters on UX page. Created Planning period Filter and apply filter on column is disabled. Any help on this
There is a client requirement to load multiple structurally similar files (the system generates new files) from the source data. Is it possible for the ADO "source Data " step to read multiple files from a folder path (instead of a single CSV file), append all these files, and then pass the combined data to the ADO an then…
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Hi, Where are the member properties for lists defined in Anaplan XL? In the training documentation there is an example showing a property such as “Birth Date”, which appears to be a list-item attribute. That suggests you can create custom list properties from the Anaplan list. However, when I connect through Anaplan XL, I…
Hi all I have a list of networks organized hierarchically on a list of entities, which is itself organized hierarchically on a list of divisions (organization). An entity can have several networks. I also have a list of product models, which is itself ranked with three higher levels: this “Models” L4 list is ranked at a…
I’m having a problem connecting to “Google Cloud Storage” with Anaplan Data Orchestrator. The GSP Service Account Email is correct and the GCP Private Key is correct, but it will not accept the bucket name. Please provide some guidance. Thanks.
I get the undefined_onFileChange error on uploads. I get the error on every item I try to upload(Lists, Modules) I have tried the following: Refreshed Browser Cleared Caches Changed browsers Restarted machine Redefining the file Recreating the file Changing the file type I probably tried some other things also. Anything…
Hi everyone, I am trying to create a connection ADO from PostgreSQL, but I consistently receive the following error: Failed to establish a connection The following message was sent from the target system: The SSL certificate is either invalid or not in unencrypted PEM format. Please check your certificate and try again.…
For auditing purpose I need RTO and RPO details. Could you please share the details and also along with the source URL.
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We’re continuing the conversation! Following the success of our first Anaplan Workflow event, we’re bringing you a deeper look at what’s next. Join us in March as we expand on the insights shared in the previous session and explore how Workflow continues to evolve to support planning collaboration and process efficiency.…
In this ACE Spotlight event, we will cover the most effective techniques for making your annual rollovers seamless and repeatable, based on the solutions from our latest Community Q&A Challenge.
