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New UX for modeling: Formula tips
In the new formula editor, it would be great if we could get formula tips, similar to excel that gives you a cheat-sheet of what arguments are needed and in what order. So instead of having to open an Anapedia page everytime to remember the order of the functions I use left often, this would pop up when I start typing in…
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Drill to Transaction on a parent item
When user attempts to utilize the Drill to Transaction option on a parent item, the filter is broken and entire items are pulled in resulting view. This is by design because parent items values are a result of the summary on the line item, and not the SUM calculation. The Drill To Transaction is specifically for drilling…
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Isfirstoccurrence - Argument for whether to consider Case-Sensitivity
I think it would be a better option to have as a model builder. Currently, Isfirstoccurrence deals with Case-Sensitive data as separate occurrences for eg. NA and na would both be seen as separate occurrences. There are many cases where, as a model-builder, You don't want this to happen. So, having an argument to confirm…
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Button to Add another / new dimension after creating the module
As a model builder it would be nice to have a button to add dimension to the module and also to the line item after one has created the module. At the moment we can add the dimension to the module through the applies to section of the blueprint. It would be nice to have a window of dimension screen that is shown when we…
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Display Name selection from the drop down - only filtering text and list formatted properties
Is it possible to provide a Display Name selection in the form of a drop-down for a Numbered list in the configure tab of a list? This addition would actually complete the configure tab in totality.
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Actions - Add a field for date and time action was last ran
Submitting this post on behalf of the customer - Jordan Kinnick Please add a field in the Actions settings that shows the last date and time the process, import, export, and other actions were ran. Also please make sure these are shown in the local time zone of the user which is another problem in the history settings.
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Option to Tie Time Range to Current Period
In an effort to reduce sparsity and improve in every aspect of "PLANS" from the planual, having the ability to attach time ranges to the model's current period would help in so many ways. As an example, in a model set as a "Calendar Months/Quaters/Years" Calendar Type, adding time Ranges that are Current Year, Current Year…
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Anaplan Map Chart of India
Hello Team, Anaplan map chart is very useful display for the users however it's restricted to only few countries in Anaplan. Currently I have few Indian Clients who are actively looking for India map chart. Do we have anything in the pipeline for the same? If not, I would suggest we include that in future release, it will…
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Number Formatting - Round Formula
Currently the Round Formula can be applied only on specific lines or calculations. Would be nice to have an option to set Number Rounding at 'Number settings' apart from Number Format Display.
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Support of basic excel functions like RAND, RANDBETWEEN, RANDARRAY
It would be nice to have these Random number generating functions. These functions revery useful to generate some test and demo data, rather than inputting numbers and copy forward or importing from an excel. Can all be used for other purposes that I can not think of now.
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Improve List Item Deletion
Improve the list item deletion within Anaplan so that if a model builder selects 'Delete All' from the delete dialogue when there are vast numbers of list items the model builder is prevented. Doing so would prevent model and workspace lock ups. To explain this further: Consider a list with 1,000,000 items. If you attempt…
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Add XOR formula
Title says it all, a XOR formula would be really helpful and reduce formula length when trying to test an exclusive or. For those unfamiliar, here is the logic table for XOR. It acts as an OR however if both inputs are TRUE, then XOR returns false.
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Improve FINDITEM() when used with Time
Similar to improving imports with time periods (Idea Link), it would be great if the FINDITEM() formula was tweaked when working with Time, to make the formula return time periods for strings like Jan-20. Reason for asking (lifted from my previous post in the Idea Link): The standard excel format for Month-Year is MMM-YY.…
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Drill Down View Enhancements
Drill downs in Anaplan Modules should have a feature for checking what each part of the formula written does. For example if there is a If condition with a nested loop with multiple formulas and conditions in it, then there should be a provision to select what each condition does regardless of the condition being True or…
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Dynamic List Management Access
Being an Anaplan user, I would like to dynamically set list management access without admin license. Similarly to WorkFlow and DCA, it would be great to have an ability to dynamically limit add/delete/copy actions on the list for the users, who have write access to it. As per now, taking, for example, Workflow: Imagine we…
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Copy/Import Line Item Formats
To provide self-service modeling we need to allow users to not only add new line items to a module but also to change/update the formats. It would be nice to be able to import line item formats as well. Line items can be imported but then only a model builder can change/set the format. For example: I want to give my users…
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FIND list items by property value
Currently you're only able to use systm properties: Name and Code to identify List elements. Please add an optional argument in a FIND functions that would allow to use any single exact property in the selected list as a reference.
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More options for TEXTLIST
There is currently no way I can use TEXTLIST function with both unique values AND mapping. * Either you can use parenthesis function with UNIQUE property * Or aggregation function with mapping but with entries repeating. To sum up both use cases are incomplete. Please add option to turn on both features at the same time: *…
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Hide List Property Columns when view is on Dashboards such as the 'Parent' or 'Code' or propety
Hi Anaplan, It would be really helpful if it were possible to hide the 'Parent' 'Code' or any property columns on list views published on dashboards. This is to prevent any destructive inputs such as changing the hierarchy by accident. Thanks, Usman
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Default Home Page to list view
We would like the ability to default the tiles screen to the list view for all of our users. This view is a lot more user-friendly than the tile view, we have had an abundance of requests for model access when the users do not realize that they just need to scroll to the right to see additional pages of tiles.
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Customize Model Filters
Consider allowing customers to customize the filter categories. App, Geography, Planning Cycle, Environment, and Business Function do not fit our use cases or model categories.
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Optimizer on rearranging Applies To for optimal performance
In our current models we have been struggling with performance. 1 big impact is the arranging of applies to. It would be great if we have an optimizer that could determine the optimal Applies to for the performance of a given model. This is based a certain constraints from what i understand 1: Size of given list 2: Arrange…
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Format Date Fields so as to include the Day Name
Currently in Anaplan there is no way to change the format of the date to include the Short name of the day such as Mon for Monday without creating a custom timescale as a numbered list and then defining it in the Description of the Item. I have an instance where I need to provide more details on a date for the scheduling…
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Action type that eliminates need for additional check box
Add an action type that allows for creation of new rows without needing to select an additional boolean checkbox Many actions require selecting a check box in addition to click a button. These should be consolidated into one step to improve user experience
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Ability to set different summary options for each list a line item applies to
Currently, at a line item level, it is possible to set a specific summary option for Time. It would be beneficial in terms of space and performance to be able to do so for each list a line item applies to. For example, we often have a list called "scenario" with a top level item so that we can create scenarii by "copy…
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Calculation Function / Formula context specific suggestions
When typing in a calculation function, show a dropdown box that provides possible matches Example 1: In the formula box when you type "Da" a tooltip suggests "DATE, DAY, DAYS, DAYSINMONTH, DAYSINYEAR.." etc Example 2 (List/Module specific): When typing "Employees. " a tooltip suggests your available Properties or Line…
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Single-precision numeric format option
Number-formatted line items and properties use a double-precision representation internally, and at least double precision during calculations. They are specified in the IEEE754 standard as a signed binary floating point format with 52 bit significand and 11-bit exponent, allowing a range of 2.2*10^-308 .. 1.8*10^308 and a…
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Display the number of items in a Subset and Line Item Subset
For a List Subset on the Subset tab display the number of items that are included in the subset. Similarly for a Line Item Subset on the definition page indicate the number of items that are marked as being included.
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Search bar to look for line items in the filter dialog
Insert a search bar right under “Choose Line item” when adding a new filter rule.
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Allow copy/paste from right click menu (without using hotkeys)
When you click copy and paste in the right click menu in Anaplan, copy works, but paste tells you to enter the hot keys instead. I would like my end users to be able to click paste and have Anaplan paste the value with out them needing to use the hot keys. This would be a benefit as it would help end users that are not…