If you publish a numbered list to a dashboard so that a User can insert items and then enter property values it works fine as long as there is at least one item present. However if you clear the numbered list then the option to insert an item is greyed out and I have found no way around that. Even if there is one or more items present the ability to insert a row is greyed out if you have selected the header row or the entire grid. That means you have to include a text box on the dashboard warning Users of this fact in order to avoid calls to support.
To try and work around this I explored using the Create action. However the Create action only works with numbered lists that have a parent hierarchy. My numbered list does not have or need a parent hierarchy but to satisfy this rule I created a List called All with a single member called All and made that the Parent of my numbered list. (I also checked whether I could simply use a top level of All but got "A numbered list without a parent list cannot have summary items"). The Create action now worked with an empty list - except of course my list was nolonger empty as it contained the parent item and so provided the header was not selected my original dashboard allowed insertion even when the list has been cleared.
Can someone from Anaplan development explain why it is necessary to have the dummy parent heirarchy present please? And even with it I would suggest there is no need to grey out the insert option when the grid header is selected.
