Cell Calculation

kirsty_ryder

Hi I am trying to quantify how our models are growing by building a calculator. I have just found the space calculator in the agile implementation app which looks excellent and will save me some time! However - I cannot reconcile the results of the calculator to the cell count listed against my existing model in Anaplan. I am sure I am missing something or has anyone else come up against this? Using one example where I have a module with the following attributes:

• 10 line items
• 1 list dimension (33,311 items as quoted in the general list screen which includes summaries) 
• 5 versions
• Time by month (4 future years and 1 past year plus current year is 6 years plus totals gets you to 79 months)

So the calculation should be as straight forward as 10*33,311*5*79 = 131,578,450. The app seems to agree with me. But my module thinks it has 108,306,980 cells. I could deduct 392,630 cells from my total by allowing for the fact that one line item has the summary property to only aggregate on time and not on the list summary but that still gives me a 21% difference to the stated cell count. I am certainly not complaining that my module is taking up less space than I think it should be, I would just like to understand if there is some complexity that I am unaware of when estimating space!  Any thoughts? Regards Kirsty

michel_maurel

Hi,
does all your line item apply to the same dimensionality as the module itself ?
Or does some line item have a different granularity ?

Are all line item number formatted ?

KInd regards.
Michel.

kirsty_ryder

Hi Michel

In this example there is consistent dimensionality (i.e no subsidiary views). All line items are numbers except for one which is a date.

Thanks
Kirsty

deepakammanna

Hi @kirsty_ryder we ran into similar issue and intersetingly the ratio comes out to be 1.2. Let us know if you have figured out the calculation in recent days.