Ordered List Action

taylor_rogers

New functionality was released on 9/26 for ordering a list via an action. See links below for more information....

 

Community post: https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Anaplan-Platform/Ordered-List-Action-and-How-to-Use-and-How-to-Order-a-List/m-p/85449#M18843

 

 Anapedia documentation: https://help.anaplan.com/anapedia/Content/Modeling/Build%20Models/Actions/Order-list.html?_ga=2.266543182.1361015654.1601386407-1976049174.1594306870

 

This new feature will significantly impact our models - for both admins and end users. Some of the lists within our organizational hierarchy are extremely long and previously it was a painful and time consuming process for our admins to manually reorder these lists when new items were added. Due to time and resource constraints, most times we weren't able to manually reorder these lists, which makes the end user experience less than ideal. Now we can add the 'order list' action to the update process and it will reorder the list for us after adding new items. Total game changer!!

 

Do you plan on using this new feature and if so, what impact will it have on your models? What are some use cases where this new feature will be helpful?

JaredDolich

Hey @taylor_rogers 

I just applied the new action at a client of mine and it worked great. List was 1.5 million rows and part of a structured hierarchy. When users drill down they want the children of the parent to be alphabetized.  I used the "CODE" which is TEXT formatted as the sorting Line Item in the action and it worked - took about 3 seconds. Not bad for such a large list.

I also wrote up a quick HOW TO guide that gives an idea about how to sort a list subset. Technically, you can only sort the primary list but I had a creative way to get the list subset sorted if that is a use case. https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Anaplan-Platform/Ordered-List-Action-and-How-to-Use-and-How-to-Order-a-List/m-p/85449

Tiffany.Rice

Thanks for sharing @taylor_rogers!  I look forward to seeing how this functionality evolves and hearing about how people are applying it in practice.  

 

@JaredDolich Appreciate you sharing the how to guide.  Really helps to bridge the learning gap!