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Ability to exclude hierarchy levels from synchronising in a dashboard
A detailed description of the enhancement that is being requested: Dashboard - make synchronization work when some levels are excluded from hierarchy (excluded levels simply shouldn’t be synchronized) To provide more clarification, could you please explain how you hope the enhancement would assist in your business…
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Improved colour options for conditional formatting
Description of the enhancement required: Improve conditional formatting by allowing more color options How would it help their business process: Lack of color options hurt the display to end users
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Ability to left justify number formatted cells
A description of the enhancement required: Left justified numbers An example of the enhancement: Ability to left justify number formatted cells A story for why the enhancement is required (specifically, how would it aid the business process): This would improve the reporting within the platform, particularly in their…
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Ability to enable 'recently selected' values in drop downs
A description of the enhancement required: Drop-down "recently selected" - Introduce memory of the user selected values from session to session and have the 5 most recently selected values at the top of the drop-down An example of the enhancement: Introduce memory of the user selected values from session to session and…
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Ability to hide/show values for certain series in a chart
A description of the enhancement required: Add label to some series on a chart but not others An example of the enhancement: In this example I would like to show the values for the bars but not for the line, however Anaplan only gives me the option to show the values for both or nothing. Ideally I would also have the…
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Provide chart options for Axis-show/hide axis, display/hide units
Description of the enhancement required: Provide chart options for Axis-show/hide axis, display/hide units
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Generates email based on user action or model logic
For example, I'd like an email to be generated to a designated recipient when a value reaches a certain threshhold, if a certain activity has not been done by a certain date, when someone checks a box to indicate that an activity is complete, when a certain action is run in the model, or when any activity is done against a…
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Synchronize modules published in a dashboard with "current period"
Description of the enhancement required: Time synchronization of modules that are published in the dashboard and option to show the module starting with the current period. A story for why they want the enhancement, (how would it help their business process): In the dashboard we are having 10+ tables which requires the…
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Edit max/min of chart axis
Description of the enhancement required: Chart Options - Enable min/max setting An example of the enhancement: Allow display of axis and control of min and max for axis A story for why they want the enhancement, (how would it help their business process): Currently some charts don’t offer much context, or scaling, this…
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Some kind of indication that a cell is list formatted without clicking on it, e.g. an arrow as in Ex
Description of enhancement requested: cells should be identified as a drop down field just by looking at it rather than having to click into it How would this help the business process: Easier and faster for users to enter data if they have appropriate expectations
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Ability to upload your own image to dashbaord rather than URL
A detailed description of the enhancement that is being requested: Customer would like the ability to upload their own image from a computer, instead of the current option of only being able to use an image with a URL. To provide more clarification, could you please explain how you hope the enhancement would assist in your…
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Actions to be made context aware
Actions initiated by users are requested to be limited to the current context instead of to the security scope of the user. E.g Delete actions for admin users are executed accross the full security scope of the user instead of being limited to the current context based on Dashboard selectors.
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Resolve Workflow Capacity/Performance Issues
We have been excited for the workflow process to be released. Now that it has been released, we were excited to implement it in tandem with a new model that would use the notification feature quite heavily for our approval process and to get a feel for how to best implement it in our existing models. During the development…
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Ability to synchronise selection of dashboard elements separately
A detailed description of the enhancement that is being requested: Ability also to have “local” synchronization, that is used only within the dashboard, where the module is published. Right now in Anaplan if we enable for published modules the synchronization by particular dimension, it affects not only the elements on the…
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The ability to built chart & graph involve 2 or more modules in the same model
Description of the enhancement: The ability to built chart & graph involve 2 or more modules in the same model Why do you want this enhancement: Currently, user needs to collect all line items in one dummy module to create a chart. Even if data already exists in the system. As a result of repeated line items, this will…
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Customizable tooltips for dashboard graphs
Description of the enhancement: Allow Workspace Administrators to customise tooltips in graphs. Currently when you hover a mouse over a line data point in a graph, you can only see the axis title. In some graphs when we have many figures, the Line Item title would be more suitable. Business case for the enhancement: Better…
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Allow scaling in Module formats for line items
Allow scaling in Module formats for line items. For example to allow dollars to be expressed as "Millions of dollars" or "Thousands of dollars". How would it help your business process: One example- We use Anaplan for budgeting and drop Anaplan data into reports for senior leadership. No executive wants to see the budget…
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Ability to require user to confirm and/or enter specific text before action / process will run
I would like a way to help prevent accidental clicking of buttons that run important / irreversible actions (like a large deletion for instance). Here are some ideas on how I think one might go about tackling this, when the user clicks a button with this prevention measure enabled: * Show the user a warning message, where…
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Filter, Sort and Pivot menu for charts
Description of the Idea: Allow editing published charts freely in the same manner as a module (change filters, sorting and pivoting). The opportunity to edit charts should also be available to end-users, not only administrators. How would this help your business processes: Convenience. Do not have to edit modules and…
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Clicking 'Open Source Module' should take me to the relevant module view
Description of the enhancement: Clicking "Open Source Module", should take me to the relevant view of the module. It currently take me to the default view. How this would help my business processes: This woul cause less confusion by users looking for more information, and would save model builder time by not having to re…
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Ability to resize column headers
As a model builder I want to be able to hide/resize the column headers so that I will have the same flexibility I've got with the rows. I will know this is successful if I will be able to set the size of the column headers to 6 pixels (same as per the rows) or if I could simply hide the column headers altogether. This will…
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Ability to create charts that allow data points only
Description of the enhancement required: Need the ability to create charts that allows us to chart data points only, not connected by a line.
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Filter option should select highest parent hierarchy as default
Description of the enhancement required: When there is a filter (dropdown) in a dashboard, customer wants the biggest parent as the default selected item. For example, "Total region" is always selected at opening. How would it help their business process: They use filters in all of their dashboards, and as admin or user,…
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Align colour scheme of conditional formatting and charts
Description of enhancement: Ability to set colour scheme of conditional formatting to the same as that of charts How would it help your business process: Would improve user-friendliness in terms of cross referencing data
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Stacked waterfall chart
Description of enhancement: It would be nice to be able to create a stacked waterfall chart, where the portions of each column are made up by (the base level items of) an additional dimension in the underlying module. Example of the enhancement: See link below for example.…
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Ability to open a module etc by double-clicking
Description of the enhancement required: I believe a great deal of your clients are Microsoft users and are familiar with their basics. E.g. to open views I would expect to double click on a List, Module or Dashboard name. However this action leads in Anaplan to edit the name of the List, Module or Dashboard. As a…
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Filtered pick list for time dimension
Description of the enhancement required: The possibility to filter the date within a drop down where the year is a dimension. An example of the enhancement: This will be useful for our team to better build out a budget model and make it easier for the contributors to enter their data. It would prevent the model builder…
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Selective access for Dashboard elements based on User Role
Description of the enhancement required: Selective access for Dashboard elements based on User Role An example of the enhancement: Process button should not be visible on a common dashboard to users if they do not have access to the set the actions under the process. A story for why you want the enhancement: It improves…
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Ability to select few options in drop-down, instead of just one
Description of Enhancement Required: Ability to use the drop-down filter in Anaplan Dashboards in a more flexible way. At the moment, users can only select one in the drop down. What I want is the ability to be able to make few selections, instead of just one. Also, it would be perfect if we could have the Search function…
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When saving a new view ("save as") of a dashboard, that view should come up immediately
Description of the enhancement required: Saved Views -when saving a new view ("save as") of a dashboard, that view should come up immediately so you're working off that view. Currently, the saved view is created but you must go to that saved view to start making edits