How I Built It: Process logging

Bhaidani

Author: Karim Bhaidani is a Certified Master Anaplanner & Transformation Director at Spaulding Ridge.

In this 'How I Built It' video, I demonstrate how to build Process Logging in Anaplan to enable non-workspace admins to view a summary of the most recent hour and date any process ran within the model on a front end dashboard.

By using templates and schedules within Anaplan Workflow, the current date and time are automatically kept up to date in the model. These can be incorporated into a sequence of actions for each process, enabling automatic capture of a timestamp whenever a process is executed. The setup for process logging is simple and does not require advanced model architecture expertise.

This approach primarily improves overall visibility into process execution times for all users. End users can easily view when any process last ran directly from a front end dashboard, eliminating the need to contact a workspace admin to understand when an integration was loaded or when a user ran a specific process.

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matheus.azevedo

Awesome tip, @Bhaidani1!

An additional tip for anyone with ADO enabled in their tenant: you can use a transformation view with the CURRENTTIMESTAMP(), HOUR(), and MINUTE() functions to automatically update the current date and time via a workflow schedule by configuring a Link to populate the 'currenttimestamp' module. This saves you from having to manually adjust your current hour in the module, especially since your schedule might not run over the weekend for a few hours due to Anaplan's scheduled platform maintenance.