The Idea
Allow a single page to be surfaced in multiple apps simultaneously — appearing natively in each app's home screen and dropdown navigation — without needing to duplicate the page itself.
The Problem
Many organisations structure Anaplan around multiple business unit-specific apps, but have pages that are truly shared — used by teams across all of those apps. Today, the only way to handle this is to either:
- Duplicate the page across each app, or
- Use embedded links within a page to navigate users away to the shared page in another app
Neither is a sustainable solution. Duplicating pages means any change must be manually replicated across every instance. As the number of apps and shared pages grows, this becomes increasingly difficult to govern and maintain, and introduces a real risk of version inconsistency between apps.
The Proposed Solution
Introduce the ability to add an existing page to multiple apps, where that page is a single object — not a copy. Changes made to the page are immediately reflected everywhere it appears, across all apps it has been added to.
This would behave similarly to how a shared document or component works in other platforms — one source of truth, multiple access points.
Why This Matters
- Eliminates redundant page maintenance across apps
- Reduces the risk of inconsistency between business units working from different versions of the same page
- Respects existing app boundaries and team structures without forcing consolidation into a single app
- Improves the end-user experience by surfacing relevant shared content natively within their own app, rather than redirecting them elsewhere
