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Author: Clarissa Hassfurder is a Certified Master Anaplanner and CEO at Double10 Consulting. In many cases, when a team member departs a company, there is an ability to complete hand off with one or multiple team members. But what if your Center of Excellence (CoE) is a team of one? What if there are no other people with…
Authors: Dave Waller, Principal Product Manager, and Abby Schutt Beckman (@AbbySB), Technical Training Program Lead at Anaplan. Workflow Advanced is an additional capability in the platform that empowers businesses to visualize and automate processes with greater speed and confidence. At the time of this article, Workflow…
Author: Misbah Ansari is a Certified Master Anaplanner, Anaplan Community Moderator & Community Boss, and CEO/Founder at Miz Logix. Anaplan has come a long way as part of its product development. We have seen so many features being released over the past few years which has not only helped Anaplan carve a place for itself…
If you missed our Power Hour event on Combined Grids, a recording is now available. This event covered how Anaplan’s new Combined Grids feature brings data from multiple modules into a single, unified view. We shared more about what makes this capability powerful, and heard from Anaplan customers who are already using it…
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The 2025 Certified Master Anaplanner Program has begun and there's incredible opportunity for 2025 Certified Master Anaplanners (CMAs) to demonstrate their thought leadership, technical expertise, evangelism, and mentorship capabilities across the entire Anaplan Ecosystem! At their core, a Certified Master Anaplanner is…
Author: Dave Smith is a Senior Product Manager at Anaplan. In the world of enterprise planning, working with hierarchical data is fundamental—whether you're dealing with product categories, organizational structures, or geographic regions, the ability to roll up and see your plans at a macro-level is essential. Until now,…
We’re excited to launch our September 2025 Community Challenge, focusing on one of the most critical aspects of Anaplan success: data integrations. Whether you’re just getting started with CloudWorks or Anaplan Connect, or you have built advanced orchestrations using APIs and Anaplan Data Orchestrator, integrations are at…
Author: Noah Jackson is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Principal Data and Insights Architect at Anaplan. Hello Anaplan Community! Since the release of the “unlink revisions” feature, it is possible to do branched development within Anaplan ALM. This is most useful when you are beginning work on a larger change or new…
Author: Waleed Hakim is a Sr. Anaplan consultant. Hi everyone! I’m Waleed — a Senior Consultant working with enterprise clients to transform their planning processes through Anaplan. I've been in the Anaplan ecosystem for just under four years now, and while most of my time is spent solving complex business problems, I’ve…
Author: Shivankur Sharma is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Principal Architect at PM Square. Anaplan has long been a leader in the connected planning space, and with the introduction of Workflow functionality, it’s taken a major step toward streamlining collaboration and task accountability. If you’re a model builder,…
Author: Evgeny Seledkov is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Sr. Consultant at Keyrus. Hello, I’m Evgeny, and I’ve been part of the Anaplan community for nearly ten years. Over the years, I’ve taken quite a journey — seeing this world from both sides: as part of a customer Center of Excellence, where I helped stakeholders…
Author: Dave Waller, Principal Product Manager at Anaplan. Discover how Anaplan Workflow streamlines and simplifies complex approval processes with our set of short demo videos. Each video highlights a real-world use case — budget submission, capex submission, headcount allocation, and compensation plans — showing how…
Author: Arjun Gandhi, Certified Master Anaplanner with over a decade of experience leading enterprise Anaplan implementations across industries. ———- “If your dashboard doesn’t tell users what to do within 10 seconds, it’s already failed.” 🧭 Introduction: Why UX design in Anaplan matters Anaplan’s UX is more than just the…
Author: Vinzenz Klass is a Senior Data Engineer at valantic. Hey everyone, I wanted to share the Anaplan Python SDK with you. It's a Python Library that wraps all Anaplan APIs and makes it easier to interact with Anaplan programmatically. It is mostly designed with Data Integration Scenarios in mind, but it does support…
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: Wrap text in row or column to be helpful for better visualisation.This should be possible in dimensions. Who is this impacting? (ex.…
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: Users who are non-workspace adminstrator should not able to see models in landing dashboard. How often is this impacting your users?…
Model Builders should be able to sort and rearrange apps just like we are able to sort pages. As you can see in the above 2 images that for pages it is showing some icon near through dragging which you can rearrange the pages but the same is not available for apps.
We should be able to apply conditional on multiple line items at once. This will save page builders time in applying conditional formatting on multiples line items.
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 should be able to copy an archived model from one workspace to another workspace. How often is this impacting your users?…
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: Right now there is no ability to search filter by name when applying filter for a view. How often is this impacting your users? We…
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 font size of PDF Export is very small and not able to control the size of the same. How often is this impacting your users? Every…
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 worksheet PDF Export – The conditional formatting is background filled colour irrespective of selected method, we have tried both…
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: Oftentimes, reports or UX pages require data from multiple models. Currently we had to duplicate the data into the reporting model,…
I would like to recommend that the Summary section in the Administration Console be enhanced to reflect the different classes of licenses by pricing category in real time. Without this level of detail, the current view has limited usefulness for tracking and management. It also seems counterintuitive that individuals who…
Hello, Our model builders are normally making changes to all structural changes in a DEV model. Because we are now in a Prod freeze and we don't want to move structural changes to PROD until end of year, we created a copy of the DEV model (standard mode) - 'DEV2' model, where we are only making changes to urgent issues…
Using the excel addin for Microsoft 365 when I try to add a card to import data I get the message 'Cannot insert data from a custom view'. I am not using a custom view. Any ideas what I am missing here?
Hello Anaplan Community, I am encountering an issue with one of my development work and would be greatly appreciated your assistance. There are 2 different modules involved in my model: 1) INP01 Percentage Input by Product (Applies To: P3 List) 2) REP01 Percentage Split by Department (Applies To: Departments List) The…
Hi all, i'm checking the value for the shipping cost but i found something strange The formula looks correct to me, and I also reviewed the module behind the lookup function, which seems fine. For example, for WEEK 2 2020 / NUTZO BAR EN, the final shipment amount is 8,192, but the shipping cost for ROAD should actually be…
What is the frequency of designating sales reps to accounts? Is it during Yearly/Quarterly Accounts Review?
I am trying to connect to Azure blob, the credentials work on cloudworks, but do not work on ADO. Has anyone else experienced this issue?
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
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. *…
This item has been identified as an outstanding known issue. Issue Setting a current page filter or sort and then exporting this data to file, will apply the current page filter/sort to all pages of the data. Workaround Remove all filters/sorts, export the data, and apply the filters/sorts in Excel --- Internal Reference:…
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Get ready to experience the future of Anaplan Support! On October 14 at 11:00 AM EDT, our Customer Support team will share what’s changing and how it will benefit you. Learn why the Customer Support Portal is becoming your go-to place for case management, explore its key features, and confirm the steps you’ll need to take…
Get ready to experience the future of Anaplan Support! On October 16 at 4:00 PM GMT +08, our Customer Support team will share what’s changing and how it will benefit you. Learn why the Customer Support Portal is becoming your go-to place for case management, explore its key features, and confirm the steps you’ll need to…
Join us for a special session spotlighting the creativity and expertise shared during our September 2025 Community Challenge on data integrations. Throughout the Challenge, Community members demonstrated how they connect Anaplan to their ecosystems, whether through CloudWorks, Anaplan Connect, or advanced orchestrations…
