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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…
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…
Author: Sripriya Rao is a Tech Lead at Prudential Financial and an Anaplan Solution Architect. How to choose safe, predictable behavior for file and model-to-model imports Quick takeaway Use “Only update imported cells” for delta/partial sources and most automated runs. Use “Clear target prior to import” only when the…
Author: Mitch Aist is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Senior Solution Architect at Anaplan. In this episode of ‘How I Built It’, Master Anaplanner Mitch Aist shows us how to use the Anaplan UX hands-free using voice dictation and command software, Dragon Naturally Speaking. ‘How I Built It’ video Timestamps 0:00 – Intro…
If you missed our July 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”,…
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Author: Steve Prendergast is the Director, Product Management at Anaplan. In modern business, change is constant. Departments restructure, sales territories split, and product lines evolve. Yet for most planning teams, reflecting these changes in a traditional planning tool has historically been a slow, rigid, and highly…
If you missed our recent Anaplan Community Experience event on Driving Security, Compliance, and Governance with the Anaplan Audit Log, a recording is now available! Anaplanners from across the globe joined our panel of experts, Chris Stauffer, Bill Dowling, and Jon Ferneau, for a deep dive into how you can build a robust…
With the February 2026 release of Management Reporting on mobile, Anaplan page builders can now deliver beautiful, structured report pages directly to smartphones and tablets. Crucially, this requires zero additional mobile-specific page configurations. Any report page designed for the desktop user experience (UX) is now…
Author: Steve Prendergast is the Director, Product Management at Anaplan. In the world of enterprise planning, clarity is everything. When you're reviewing high-level data and making critical business decisions, the last thing you want is a cluttered dashboard that distracts from the core metrics. That's why we're thrilled…
After building your shiny new module and Optimizer action, you might be thinking, “Now do I really have to remember to press the button every single time?” Many clients want the flexibility to schedule their actions, whether it’s running an optimization with each new demand update or setting up jobs to run automatically…
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…
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 a singular workflow for budget monitoring that is identical across 20 models. Currently, we need to create a new workflow for…
One challenge I run into frequently when troubleshooting complex formulas is that the Drill Down feature shows all contributing line items, but it doesn't clearly indicate which parts of the formula actually evaluated to TRUE/FALSE or where the logic path was executed. For example, in a formula with multiple nested IF…
In order to optimise the way profile acess is granted, especially on huge groups with several reportings based on different reponsability scopes, having the possibility to grant acess dynamically to a group of entity based on a property would be a significant gain. As an example on entities, if you want to grant acess to…
In Anaplan DM for template mail triger by workflow : We have the option for the action reject approved document But not for reject approved document 2 and reject approved document 3
Currently the entity alternate hierachies are not used as they should. Several issues are encountered when using those : Validation reports and Intercompanymatching report can not be filtered using this alternate hierarchy. Whereas it is only a matter of what members you want to see. When using the alternate hierarchy on…
On Anaplan DM This option exist only for the action "open document" This option could be very usufull for other action like submit or approved. From parent we can approved child with a bulk action. Since we don't have this option, user receive one mail by child document.
Describe the problem or experience related to your idea: In inventory planning models, Target Stock Levels are commonly calculated using a Negative Binomial distribution to model demand variability and set safety stock/service level targets. This is standard practice because demand is typically overdispersed (variance…
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: Our developers need Page Builder access to create and manage Apps/Boards for model building and enhancements. This is primarily a…
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 the user have set it (LI) 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…
Since the legacy API intermediary service retiring, will it impact the Auth token api endpoint as well? should we update the auth api host to obtain Refresh Token (http://us1a.app.anaplan.com/) as well to the modern one (https://api.anaplan.com ) ?
Hello All, Is possible to Data label colours based on Legend? By default the Axis in ANPALAN steps up by 2.5K, how to manually adjust? Data labels for all legends is not displayed, possibly due to size, how to move the labels TIA
Hi, I was hoping to get some help with this situation, where I am trying to take a list to list mapping on the left and get an output similar to the right, but the main idea is i want to be able to make the selected item (format: list), the dimension of a target module and reverse map the original source list as a list…
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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Join Anaplan experts to discover how Anaplan Optimizer can transform complex decision planning challenges into measurable financial savings. In this session, you will: See how Anaplan Optimizer helps solve complex planning decisions by balancing business objectives, constraints, and trade-offs Explore real-world use cases,…
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…
Registration and events details will release closer to the event date. Join us for the fourth session in our Workflow Expanded series as part of the Anaplan Community Experience program. In this session, we continue building on the concepts and best practices discussed throughout the series, with a focus on helping model…
