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Integrating your Oracle data: The Anaplan connector
Author: Kira Wagner is a Product Owner at Anaplan. The Oracle connector further expands Anaplan’s integration capabilities by bridging your Oracle database with the Anaplan Data Orchestrator (ADO). This connection makes your data readily available for downstream processing in your Anaplan models, supporting accurate,…
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Dynamic naming line action matching names in Actions
Hello. Quick question. I've implemented Dynamic renaming line items similar to this. The question I have is that I use both modules where I dynamically rename line items (Source and Target) in an action to copy calculated information into a snapshot (e.g.: REP9 into REP09b). Would I need to remap line items in the action…
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Best Practices for Ingesting REST API Marketing Data (JSON) into Planning Models
Hi everyone, I am currently working on architecting a comprehensive marketing budget and forecasting model. To get an accurate picture of our digital marketing supply chain and engagement ROI, I need to pull real-time pricing and delivery metrics from our external backend providers. Specifically, we utilize an smm panel…
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CloudWorks Job Dependency Timing
If I schedule two CloudWorks jobs, one that loads data into Module A from different Model and a second that runs the actions to move that data into Module B from Module A, will the second job wait until the first job finishes before starting, or will it start at its scheduled time even if the first job is still running.
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4.6.7 Activity: Import Data into P2 Products List
Let me know what am I doing wrong here. getting different result while importing.
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4.8.2 Activity: Import Data into E2 Employees# List NUX
In the NUX everytime I try to import the employee list it doesn't display the name. I am correctly importing but it continues to show the employee names as numbers. Please advise
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Best Practice - Moving to New Chart of Accounts
We are currently looking at migrating ledger providers and as part of this, there will be a full remapping of our existing chart of accounts to a new chart of accounts. This will likely break large parts of the model where we do lookups of specific account codes and the structure of our overall P&L and Balance Sheet will…
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April 2026 platform releases and what’s next
Check out the latest Anaplan feature updates and enhancements in our April 2026 official release notes. There you'll find information on: Polaris Trigonometry functions MOVINGSUM on general lists Line item limit Security and tenant administration CAPTCHA on basic authentication Anaplan XL (version 2604) Offline writeback…
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Do scheduled CloudWorks actions run in parallel or sequentially?
If we schedule two CloudWorks actions to start at the same time, using the same source model but different saved views, and updates two different target models, will they run in parallel or sequentially (with one finishing before the other starts)?
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Aligned by Design - A proportional cascade framework for multi-level forecast reconciliation
In as much detail as possible, describe the problem or experience related to your idea. Please provide the context of what you were trying to do and include specific examples or workarounds: In enterprise planning and forecasting, we aim to produce statistically sound forecasts at multiple organisational levels (e.g.…
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Aggregate planner commentary together with financials as insight rolls up across the organisation
In as much detail as possible, describe the problem or experience related to your idea. Please provide the context of what you were trying to do and include specific examples or workarounds: In planning and forecasting processes, large volumes of textual commentary are captured at detailed levels (e.g., line items,…
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Leveraging Corporate Knowledge in Forecasting via Text‑Based Analytics
In as much detail as possible, describe the problem or experience related to your idea. Please provide the context of what you were trying to do and include specific examples or workarounds: Enhance forecasting accuracy and responsiveness by incorporating corporate knowledge captured in unstructured text (e.g., management…
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Export for every list item in a context selector for a management report
In as much detail as possible, describe the problem or experience related to your idea. Please provide the context of what you were trying to do and include specific examples or workarounds: A client wants the functionality to run an export on a management report that will export a page for every context within the context…
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8.2.2 Activity: Add Volume Inputs Module
I am having a challenge creating the volume input module properly as the location is showing Region. How can I change from the Region format?
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UX Formatting for List Items in Rows
For ease of reading tiles in a UX page would be great to be able to format levels of a hierarchy as different colors. For example L1 might be grey, L2 might be blue, L3 might be yellow, etc. Allow user to choose the colors for each level of the hierarchy
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Time Period Formatted line items dependency on Time Range
Currently dropdown for time period formatted line items shows all time periods for Model Calendar. There should be an option to make them dependent on Time range applicable to that particular Module/Line Item. For Example: If Model has 5 years, a Month formatted line item will show all 60 months in dropdown even if that…
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NUX Show/Hide for line items as selectors under the grid
Hello, the request concerns Line Items as Page Selectors in NUX. It is great that we can use show/hide functionality when Line Item is displayed as Context Selector on top of the page. If I have 5 line items, but 3 of them are technical and I want to let users toggle only between two, I can do that. This also limits my…
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Performance Issue with Master Switch for Dynamic Product Selection in Polaris
Hi All, We are facing a scenario where users must dynamically select specific list items for different planning scenarios. Example: We have 5 products in total Scenario A: User plans for 3 products Scenario B: User plans for 4 products Because this selection is dynamic, we are not using subsets. Instead, we: Use Boolean…
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PowerPoint Add-in: Installation requires elevated privileges
This item has been identified as an outstanding known issue. A workaround is provided until the issue is officially fixed. Issue For versions 1.6, 1.7 and 1.8 of the PowerPoint Add-in elevated privileges are required to install the add-in through command line and for the "all users" option. Workaround * Installing through…
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Talent Builder Graduate Mini Resume - Dinesh Ghongate
Name: Dinesh Dattatray Ghongate Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India. Certification: Anaplan Professional Model Builder, Anaplan Level 1 Model Building ,Anaplan Level 2 Model Building, Anaplan Talent Builder Graduate Educational Background: Master's in commerce Profile Summary: I am an Anaplan Talent Builder Graduate with…
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Building scalable Anaplan models — Part 1: Master data management in the Data Hub
Author: Hanwen Chen, Certified Master Anaplanner. If you read my previous article — “How to build a Polaris reporting model in less than 2 weeks” — you already know how to rapidly stand up an Anaplan Polaris reporting model by leveraging existing Data Hubs and Classic models. That article focused on speed of delivery. This…
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Recording now available! April 29 platform release event
If you missed our April 29, 2026 platform release event, the recording is now available! In this webinar, we highlighted the most recent feature releases and how to take advantage of these in your environment. Our expert-led session demonstrated new features and innovations, provided a technical deep-dive and “how-to”,…
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Talent Builder Graduate Mini Resume - Caleb Bourgeois
Name: Caleb Bourgeois Location: Greenville, South Carolina, United States Certification: Anaplan Professional Model Builder Anaplan Level 1 Model Building Anaplan Level 2 Model Building Anaplan Talent Builder Graduate Educational Background: 15+ years of professional experience in client-facing design, communications,…
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feature enhancement: Bulk delete multiple values in Web Reports (Web input form)
Current behavior: When users make a mistake in the Web input form(e.g., AnaplanXL Web reports, foreign exchange global rate form ), they cannot select multiple cells and press Delete (like Excel). They must clear values one cell at a time, which is time-consuming. Request: Enable users to select multiple cells and…
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Polaris Building and Debugging Tactics
Author: Dana Evernden is a Principal Solution Architect at Anaplan, pioneering the Anaplan Delivery Assurance Program. Polaris Building and Debugging Tactics Tired of sluggish models and performance bottlenecks in Polaris? Ever feel like you're just one tweak away from unlocking lightning-fast speed? You've found the…
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Anaplan Data Orchestrator - Numbered Lists with Display Names
Previously, we have used display names in system modules for our numbered lists and then referencing that from the list property for the display name. When using ADO though, that means creating links for each of the parts of the hierarchy as well as links to the system modules that contain the inputs for the display names.…
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L3 5.5.3 Sales Planning Model- Lists How can i import into G3S Sales Reps# list?
In the Sales Planning model, create two lists to import data from the Data Hub model. The first list should include the data that will identify the relationship between Sales Reps and the country where they are located. Q: Employees list keeps showing as a unique id instead of the employee name when importing from data hub…
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4.8.2 Activity: Import Data into E2 Employees# List
Hi All, Has anyone completed exercise # 4.8.2 Activity: Import Data into E2 Employees# List? I am not able to procced with this, can anyone j
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Talent Builder Graduate Mini Resume - Dhanesh N. Kalkar
Name: Dhanesh N. Kalkar Location: Mumbai Certification: Anaplan Model Builder Google Project Management Anaplan Way Educational Background: DME, BE (Mechanical Engineering) Profile Summary: I’m a Technical Consultant with over 11 years of experience, increasingly focused on leveraging automation and connected planning to…
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Model History Management Capabilities
In as much detail as possible, describe the problem or experience related to your idea. Please provide the context of what you were trying to do and include specific examples or workarounds: In our company, we operate with models that are significantly large, both in terms of data volume and the number of users interacting…