Recording now available! January 28 platform release event
If you missed our January 28, 2025 platform release event, the recording is now available!
In this webinar, we highlight the most recent feature releases and how to take advantage of these in your environment. Our expert-led session demonstrated new features and innovations, provided a technical deep-dive and “how-to”, followed by a question and answer session with the audience.
Topics covered include:
- Tailored access to available functions based on model engine
- User experience enhancements — see below for details
Features that were demonstrated:
- Engine-specific content in Anapedia integration
- Role-based page access
- Network charts
- Axis label formatting
- Row/column formatting
- Filter across line items
- Expand/collapse in cells with list pickers
Q&A
Questions answered live
Role-based page access
- Is the default being able or unable to edit the page?
- Any way to assign multiple roles to multiple pages like we could do earlier?
- Is it only applicable to model builder not user?
- A user is assigned to one role, correct? Are there suggestions for managing overlapping roles?
- Is there a way to copy one role's access to another (newly created) role?
- Does that make the module access section in MUX sort of redundant?
Formatting
- Is column formatting limited to a certain number of columns?
- Is there a way to format a level of a list at once? For example, format all months and make the quarters a different color.
- Will the formatting affect the column or row label even if there is conditional formatting?
- My users like to export reports to excel for further circulation — will the formatting now export?
- Can we set the format (%, $, etc) differently for members of Line Item Subsets?
New end user features: Expand/collapse cells, filtering across line items
- Is the default for list pickers that they are fully expanded?
- Do you have an option for having multiple filters applied with OR function?
- Does the line item filter see empty text cells > 0 if they are populated
Network cards
- Is there selective read access for the Network cards and connections?
- Can multiple levels from a hierarchy be used as nodes?
- Can it be used with customers overseas or warehouses outside the US?
- What are the limitations on the source to build connection and nodes?
- Can nodes be sorted in the visual based on a line item value (like in this example the highest number of capacity first)?
- Can you add another field to allocate a specific amount of units?
- Is the Network Chart functionality available within the latest SCM Apps as part of the configuration process? Or would this be viewed as an “extensible” report?
Answered in chat
Formatting
- Do these formatting changes still apply after pivoting the table?
- Yes.
- Yes.
- Are there new color combinations added apart from the existing colors? As there are limited options to provide colors as client's requirements for the graphs, charts, fonts, etc. – it will help if new colors are added.
- Most color options take a hex value when formatting here.
- Most color options take a hex value when formatting here.
- Is there any way to reset back to default all the custom formatting, instead of having to open up every possible menu?
- Yes, click ‘Reset Theme’.
- Yes, click ‘Reset Theme’.
- How does the system handle a difference in the number formatting set in the models backend vs the NUX formatting you just showed?
- The UX setting overrides the line item setting.
- The UX setting overrides the line item setting.
- How would you suggest showing the number scale for the whole table rather than adding £ and m to each line item (for example)?
- Use your line item formats in the model itself.
- Use your line item formats in the model itself.
New end user features: Expand/collapse cells, filtering across line items
- Can you set the list picker to be collapsed by default?
- It is currently expanded by default.
- It is currently expanded by default.
Network cards
- How do you make the unmet demand alert on the chart in the top right?
- There is a line item that checks for the alert condition and sets the value if there is. All other values are set for NaN for that line item and hence do not show up on the chart.
- There is a line item that checks for the alert condition and sets the value if there is. All other values are set for NaN for that line item and hence do not show up on the chart.
- Network cards can be used within the two hierarchies like product and geography?
- Yes.
- Yes.
- Have any applications beyond SCM been explored? If so, any thoughts?
- This is an SCM example although a network chart may apply to any planning processes that have many to many relationships.
- This is an SCM example although a network chart may apply to any planning processes that have many to many relationships.
- Can we have a one to many relationship? For ex, one child list item have multiple parent list items?
- Yes.
- Yes.
- Are network charts synced based on Page selectors?
- Yes.
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Comments
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Kudos to the team for getting the recording out so quickly. Great walkthrough of the hierarchy chart by Annika. Should definitely cut this out and put it on the Anapedia pages.
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A question from one of my team on network charts. Say you've got warehouse - intermediary - store as your chain but you've also got warehouse - store how would you go about setting that up? wouldn't want to duplicate warehouse into intermediary or have a "direct" block as would lose some grain.
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@andrewtye As far as how to visualize this, I think it could be achieved by setting the structure up similar to a staggered hierarchy:
- Route 1 utilizes the connections “Node A > Node B” and “Node B > Node C”.
- Route 2 only utilizes the connection “Node A > Node B” and then stops.
The default node layout position of each node is as follows:
- Node A = 1
- Node B = 2
- Node C = 3
By changing the default node layout position for the store in Route 2 from 2 to 3, that store will show up in the third column (with the other stores that pass through intermediaries) with an arrow directly from warehouse to store.
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