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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…
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…
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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…
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…
Author: Chad Frantz is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Senior Technical Associate at Alpha FMC. Here we are at the end of another year. A perfect time to look back and reflect on what’s happened and where things are going. As we’ve become accustomed to in the Anaplan environment, that includes looking at the updates and…
Author: Ryan Rist is an Anaplan Solution Architect at General Atlantic. Hello Anaplanners! I’m happy to share my ‘How I Built It’ tutorial today; a fun football game/tool. Football Survivor is a competition where people select one team per week. If that team wins, they move on. If that team loses, they are knocked out.…
Author: Vinay Varadaraj Mirajkar is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Senior Solution Architect at Anaplan. When you think about creating simple workflows or enabling collaboration between/within the planning teams, some of the features which can help achieve this are: sharing pages, card comments, notifications, and last…
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…
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, the process for documenting model size must be done manually. While this is a simple enough task, it would be much easier…
Could you consider introduction of Front-End Dashboard in-cell formulas for calculations like in excel
Can you please introduce scroll Arrows at the ends of the vertical and horizontal scrollbars for easier navigation across the dashboards (in similar to excel style).
Whenever I create a new user account the Time zone is set to GMT, which is the Default time zone. I'd like to be able to configure the Default time zone for my environment to Mountain Time. This would result in new users being automatically configured to Mountain time.
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: enable the LOOKUP: of calculated values in a non-composite hierarchy How often is this impacting your users? frequently (every…
I would like to propose adding the ability to apply conditional formatting to field cards in the UX. Many customers prefer the look of the field cards to a grid, especially for filling out a form, but we often have to use a grid instead to be able to apply CF for invalid entries.
Hello Everyone, I see that in the beta version of new module inventory, there are two issues: The Search icon is missing, which was there in the earlier version. When we use the find option (Ctrl +F), it only searches the module names present in the current screen and not from the entire list of modules. Attached the pic…
It seems sensible that it should be possible to publish Anaplan(Fluence)XL grids direct to the Anaplan UX. This might best be enabled alongside a new type of UX screen.
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: Different roles enter and consume "contextual" data (commentary) at different levels of a product / customer hierarchy. It is the…
Unless the model builder names the saved views appropriately, it's often difficult to trace the source object of an export action. It currently indicates only the list name or the module name, but if we can have a tab for 'Exports' similar to 'Imports', to indicate if the source of export action is a module default view or…
Hello, i'm fairly new to Anaplan but come from BI products world. I have a situation, an Import action is created in Anaplan dev. This action picks up the .csv file from source location (This has been working perfectly fine in our environment for last 4 years) and loads it in to one of the Modules. This process has been…
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…
January 28, 2025 at 11am EST
