How I Built It: Set up timestamps leveraging ADO & Workflow

Author: Jeffrey Glazner is a Manager, FP&A Systems at ResMed.

Hello folks!

I’m happy to share my ‘How I Built It’ tutorial with you all. This video shows a simple way to set up timestamps in Anaplan leveraging Anaplan Data Orchestrator (ADO) and Workflow, without the need for any additional scripting. While not groundbreaking, I wanted to shed a bit of light on an interesting way this functionality could be leveraged.

This solution could be useful when needing to update today’s date, logging timestamps on model-to-model imports, or generally tracking when a step in an ADO workflow was triggered.
Take a look, hopefully this helps generate some ideas!

https://play.vidyard.com/u7V4ZqPGfs7bbRsuhG2VpU

Questions? Leave a comment!

Comments

andrewtye

Excellent way of being able to show in the model more visibly this information!

Tiffany.Rice

Thanks for sharing! Another handy workaround for the lack of a TODAY() function in the models.

CommunityMember121571

It's also a very nice and tiny demo of how ADO & Workflow works!

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