Idea Exchange item that deserves some attention! Please support!

Hello fellow Anaplanners!

I have a scenario that is captured exactly in the following Idea Exchange and I'm certain you all have or will need this in the future!! The scenario is essentially to have a line item summary method that is a formula and is DIFFERENT than the formula of the line item.

Add a custom formula for summary that doesn't nece... - Anaplan Community

This Idea Exchange was put out there in 2018 and is "Considered for Future Roadmap." Let's get it ON roadmap!

Thanks for your consideration!

Stacey

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obriegr

Definitely giving this idea a Kudo as I have had to do some gymnastics to solve this issue or just leaving summary turned off.

Misbah

@Stacey_Gibbens

Absolutely! It would be great if we have Customized Formula at the Summary Levels. We have to use Ratios for selected use cases but that doesn't fit for all

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Misbah

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Ingilavicus

Hi @Stacey_Gibbens ,

Not sure if this would work for you, but in the past, I have achieved a similar result with the following workaround:

Use ratio as the summary, this will require 2 additional line items:

- The first item is where you have the resulting figures that you are looking for on the level of detail that is your summary in the original line item.

- The second item is simply 1 as a number (doesn't have to be dimensioned)

On the original line item where you want this different type of summary value, you simply do a ratio of Extra line item 1 / Extra line item 2.

This way you can have all sorts of values appearing in the summary that are not necessarily connected to the formula of the original line item.

A simple example: line item that sums 2 values, but on the summary level I want to see a multiplication:

Andris

Stacey_Gibbens

Thanks, @Ingilavicus for the idea! I have to admit, I was not very familiar with the Ratio option. I think it might work to create the weighted average I'm looking for... 🙂

Stacey

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