Alias Names for Time, Versions, Modules, Line Items and Dashboards

usman.zia

Hi Anaplan,

 

It would be great for Anaplan to allow users to create alias names for: time, versions, modules, dashboard, list and lineitems. 

 

Thanks,

Usman

Miran

Status changed to: In Review

Rebecca

Thanks for your idea Usman and for all the kudos! Can you please comment with some reasons why this would be useful for you? 

What business process is this improving? What problem will this solve?

usman.zia

Hi @Rebecca 

 

Most of the influence for this functionality comes from a usability and reporting perspectives, not modelling capability.

Users want greater flexibility in customising anaplan for themselves.

 

Some of the uses come from specifications our clients have: 

- Centre of Excellence Naming conventions versus what some users actually - for example the coding of module names / lists may not be informative to a user in the same way it is to a model builder.

- Renaming list item names for a to user friendly names instead of codes

- Renaming the time dimensions to Jan instead of Jan 19 

- Different Naming conventions for different business functions

 

 

DavidSmith

I would also add that this would allow:

• language support where structural elements can have different language aliases for different users 
• More flexible display of list names/code (e.g. Code only, Name only, Name + code, Code + name

In general extend the display name concept to all structural elements

David 

CallumW

It would certainly be useful to have a unqiue identifer for line items that wasn't it's own name.

 

Having a "display name property" for each line item would allow us to duplicate names for line items which would be useful.

david.savarin

I +1 this idea.

Custom Naming for Time would be great as for instance maintaining a multi-language alias names