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Re: Dark / Light Mode for Model Building
I agree, either give us the light/dark mode or give us back the colored banner. I came in this morning and it was a shock but was willing to give it a shot before complaining. But after 5 hours I have a headache behind my eyes. The colored banner really did help differentiate it from the rest of the screen.
Re: Dark / Light Mode for Model Building
Thank you @PhilippErkinger for raising this issue, I came to this forum today to do exactly the same thing. I have shared this post with everyone internally and some clients as well. Hoping we can build up some traction to place this on Anaplan's roadmap with high priority.
The shift to all-white platform is an awful decision and it literally hurts my head. At the very least, we need to put the color back.
MJM
Ability to change button color with hex codes
Would be great to have more customization capabilities for buttons in the new UX.
First would be changing the color of the button based on hex values. Second would be the ability to change the color of the text on the button itself.
Re: How to estimate the size of a model
First of all we are not from Anaplan, so our vetting it doesn't mean Anaplan doing it 🙂
To me I believe it is extremely tough to calculate the model size in the design phase. There are so many nuances to it - Dimensions including Native Time, Native Versions, Switchover, Formats of line items, number of list items etc. However we can still give a ball park figure to the clients based on the experience from prior implementations and little bit of calculations based of the above information provided.
I am not sure if item of Native Time or Native Version takes 500 bytes of space as well - highly unlikely. If that was the case then without using Time as a dimension in the module we could see model size going up based on the number of time periods that we have set in the backend, which is not the case - atleast I have not seen that.
Also Number of Text Characters in any Text Formatted line item also drives the model size but you won't see it in the front end. Your may see model being 50 GB in the front end but in the backend it may be more than 500 GB due to excessive usage of Text formatted lines in the model - this reduces the performance but it doesn't add up to your calculations.
Switchover is another area where it gets tricky - any switchover cell doesn't add up to the total size.
Hope that was helpful
Misbah
MIZ LOGIX
Misbah
Re: Dynamic columns width change in the New UX
I completely agree with this suggestion!!
It is really useful if we can change column width in the New UX😐️
Thank you
Fujimura
Re: Dark / Light Mode for Model Building
I agree that the ability to change the banner color would be very helpful.
Re: Dark / Light Mode for Model Building
Wow. I didn't anticipate that my post would create such a high response rate. 😅
Dark Mode has been a personal preference of mine for quite some time, but I agree that the more pressing issue is the complete lack of contrast and visual highlights. The new design makes it particularly unclear where key elements, such as navigation, are located or how different areas within an app are intended to be used. This can be especially challenging for new users or visually impaired people, who may struggle to navigate and work efficiently within Anaplan. I can't understand how this change passed all the approvals at Anaplan.
Function that locks the specific models
I would like the function to lock specific Models at "Model Management" so that they can't be easily deleted.
Fujimura
Color Coded Headers for Different Model Environments
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 think that it would be beneficial for admin users to have the ability to color-code headers for different models. This would reduce the risk of accidently updating a prod model.
How often is this impacting your users?
Daily risk of admin users accidently updating a live prod model.
Who is this impacting? (ex. model builders, solution architects, partners, admins, integration experts, business/end users, executive-level business users)
Admins
What would your ideal solution be? How would it add value to your current experience?
Ideally the admin user could assign a color-coded header for a specific model. For example:
Red = Prod
Yellow = Sandbox
Blue = Dev
Please include any images to help illustrate your experience.
