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[Part 1] Validating user input in Anaplan: Approaches and challenges
Pros/cons of common approaches Common approaches: Examples Error logic User experience Example 1: Simple error messages Example 2a & 2b: Nested IF statement Example 3: Concatenation of multiple error messages Example 4: Separate errors for each line item Wrap-up of Part 1: Summary of common (sub-optimal) approaches…
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Personas: Rights management for Pages
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Automate current date import using Power Automate
As you all know, Anaplan cannot display the current time from a function, so it needs to be imported into a module by an import action. As described here it can be done via Python: Import and automate current date import to Anaplan. I would like to to show you an easier way of doing it when your organization has access to…
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Use Power Query in Excel to leverage the power of the Anaplan API
When working on our quality assurance items, we realized that one of the items that could go wrong in our regular data loads was that the lists loaded to our data hub could be empty. We had to figure out a way of monitoring this in a simple and straightforward manner. So, I decided to go for the combination of Excel and…
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Reports, Boards and Worksheets–When to use which?
* High-level view * Report * Board * Worksheet * Let's deep dive * What about other reporting options? * In summary [Updated July 2021 with the new Management Reporting feature] As you are embarking on the UX journey, you may ask yourself: When should I use a board? When should I use a worksheet? And, When should I use a…
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How to SUM using a dummy list
What is it? This article explains how to SUM, SUMIF, and use other aggregation methods using a dummy list rather than Anaplan’s native summary functionality. Why is it useful? Anaplan's native summary logic is simple to use, elegant, and effective. However, sometimes it results in bloated modules that use up workspace…
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Evolve your Anaplan ecosystem with enterprise governance
Center of Excellence Model Governance Workspace Architecture Data Hubs Data Integration Build & Manage Security In this article, you'll find resources to support evolving your Anaplan ecosystem with enterprise governance. This broad topic was covered in depth during Anaplan Live! 2022 — including focused discussion on…
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Transactional or Bulk: When to use which API?
* What are we talking about? * What’s the differencebetween bulk and transactional? * When to use Bulk API * When to use TransactionalAPI * What else can Transactional API do? What are we talking about? See our refresher here. Anaplan has a set of APIs that allow for a developer to programmatically interact in certain ways…
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10 things you didn't know about Management Reporting
Ready to leverage our new exciting Management Reporting feature? Here are 10 tips you may not know and can help you create magnificent reports: * Include a module in your text card configuration to link to your model periods, module dimensions or line-item data to make your titles dynamic. * With a simple right click after…
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UX transition workshop: Anaplan Live! 2022
In this article, you'll find UX transition key insights and actionable takeaways to apply in your specific context. As shared during Anaplan Live! 2022, we've curated a list of recommended resources from across Community to provide a consolidated view to support your UX transition journey. Refer to the attached…
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Get started on connected data architecture
In this article, you'll learn about the different integration options in Anaplan and discover how to leverage them to maintain and automate your ecosystem. Then, learn about data hub best practices and how to operationalize your connected architecture best. Here you'll find a consolidated view of useful links and key…
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OEG Best Practice: Implementation best practices: Leveraging personas
If you are transitioning from Classic to the UX, you may have read this article about our recommended methodology: U.S.E.R. (Understand, Sketch, Execute, and Repeat). One of the key concepts during the Understand phase is to really get to know your users. For this, we recommend a classic UX tool: Personas. Personas What…
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Build: Focus on your power users first
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Design: Create a style guide
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End user features: Using the content menu
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Design: Review, review, review
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UX Designer Profile
Mature Anaplan customers have an increasing focus on designing dashboards and apps that create a positive user engagement. Enter — the critical role of the UX Designer UX Designers begin with the end in mind. Their goal is to create a seamless experience, often across multiple Anaplan models, improving the usability of…
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Workspace management
This article introduces basic workspace concepts, provides recommendations on how to structure workspaces, and offers tips to help organize and reduce workspace size. Workspaces are a combination of a single or multiple models. Workspace size is the total of all models in a workspace, excluding archived models as archived…
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Calculating levels in a hierarchy for dashboard filtering
Summary This article describes the technique to dynamically filter specific levels of a hierarchy on a dashboard, and provides a method to select and visualize hierarchies on a dashboard. Details This article explains how to configure the calculation of the level of a list in a hierarchy in order to apply specific…
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Setting production lists
*Content reviewed for accuracy June 2020 Making sure that production data lists are correctly marked within a model is a key step to setting up and using Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). This guide will provide a solution to how someone can make revisions to their model to allow for the tagging of a list as a…
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CloudWorks—This is how we use it, Part 3: The CloudWorks API
In Part 3 of our CloudWorks - This is how we use it series, we will introduce you to the CloudWorks API. This is typically for an audience comfortable with REST APIs concepts and programming. If you need a refresher on What CloudWorks is, see Part 1 or, for how to set it up, see Part 2. CloudWorks API will allow you to…
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PlanIQ for forecasting
PlanIQ provides us with an easy-to-use and intelligent time series forecasting tool. It integrates with the Anaplan platform and incorporates advanced machine learning and statistical forecasting algorithms. In this article, I explore functionalities that PlanIQ offers using a sample data set and the preparation steps…
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Anaplan CloudWorks API and Azure Logic Apps
* Use case: event-based triggering * Building a Logic App * Technical flow * Special focus * Conclusion You’ve already had a flavor of using Logic Apps with Anaplan API in this article, thanks to my colleague Sean Culligan. In this post, we will do something slightly different by using Anaplan CloudWorks API with the…
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Personal dashboards tips and tricks
Personal dashboards are a great new feature that enables end users to save a personalized view of a dashboard. To get the most out of this feature, here are a few tips and tricks. Tidy up dashboards Any change to a master dashboard (using the Dashboard Designer) will reset all personal views of a dashboard so before…
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Extracting data from Anaplan with Qlik Sense
So you finally did it – you joined the Anaplan Community. So many possibilities just opened up in front of you when it comes to connected planning and finance, but what about analyzing and visualizing your data? Well, no need to worry about that because Qlik has that part covered. In today's article, we'll be talking…
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A primer on Anaplan integration using Azure Logic Apps
Introduction With the release of Anaplan Cloudworks, this flow may be better addressed via a blob storage connection in Cloudworks, or with a combination of a Cloudworks flow and a post request to the Cloudworks API. My colleague @christophe_keom published a guide covering this topic. In my case, I wanted my flows to run…
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Using saved text strings to speed up blueprint configuration
This is an addition and update to a existing community article using similar methods now in the latest modeling experience. As a model builder, you have to define line item formats over and over. Using saved text strings, you can speed up the configuration of modules. When you add a new Line Item, Anaplan sets it by…
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How to automate subsets
How to ensure your Center of Excellence keeps on top of subset management One of the easiest things that can go wrong in a model is when subsets get out of sync. In larger models you may have multiple subsets on large lists and keeping track of them all can quickly become very difficult. For example, what happens when…
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How To Convert Infinity, -Infinity, NaN to Zero Value
Sometimes in the numeric formatted cells, as a result of various calculations, it is possible to have returned as a result the Anaplan special numbers: Infinity, -Infinity, or NaN (Not a Number). If the numeric line item with this issue is also an input for other formulas, the final result could be altered. To solve this…
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[Start Here] - Management Reporting
Welcome to this article on Management Reporting, our exciting new feature for the UX! Ready? Let’s go! What is Management Reporting? Management Reporting allows you to create highly formatted, customized slides to deliver key insights and clear reporting to your organization using the new presentation mode in platform.…
