Any idea for getting current date that always up to date in Anaplan

Fide

I need an idea for getting current date in Anaplan.

Accepted answers

All comments

aakash

Hi @Fide

You can use the below step.

Create a line item with current date, populate it manually for the first time.
Create another line item with 'next date'.
Create an import from 'next date' to 'current date'.
Schedule this import to run once everyday using CloudWorks.

However, you would need to make sure, you keep track of all the maintenance activities that happen at the backend, and check your current date randomly after maintenance activity.

Hope that helps,

Regards,

Aakash Sachdeva

Fide

@aakash Thank you for your guidance. I will try to follow that step. Hopefully, it will work. Thank you so much.

Sai_Bharadwaj_Venati

Please follow this link. I've used it and it works absolutely great.

https://community.anaplan.com/discussion/120636/easily-get-current-date-using-cloudworks/p1

Fide

@Sai_Bharadwaj_Venati Thank you for the advice, I will try it. Thank you so much.

skarki

With anaplan api and python script, It is feasible to write directly into line item cells. Some basic information are required such as workspace id, model id, module id and line item id.

aakash

Hi @skarki

For scheduling this to update automatically, you would still need to host your script somewhere.

Regards,

Aakash Sachdeva

Quick Links

Can you help?

Unanswered questions

Prevent end users deleting a list item when using Worksheet in UX.
Hi, I have a worksheet for end users to enter new hires into, for which the list item which persist across versions. I am having an issue where the end user can delete a list item using the grid functionality because the Current Version value is blank, but I want to prevent them deleting them (as data will be lost from…
Introducing Anaplan API Python SDK
Hey everyone, I wanted to share the Anaplan Python SDK with you. It's a Python Library that wraps all Anaplan APIs and makes it easier to interact with Anaplan programmatically. It is mostly designed with Data Integration Scenarios in mind, but it does support all APIs including ALM, SCIM, Audit, and Cloud Works. Please…
Cloudworks Big Query Integration Fail
Hello, I am receiving an 'Anaplan Upload Failed' Status Description when testing my integration with a Big Query dataset. The integration imports data from BQ to our Anaplan model. No other details given in the error log. I suspect that Cloudworks is not even picking up the file but am not sure what we did wrong on the set…