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Unlocking the power of Polaris: A guide to efficient model building
This article is part of a series on Polaris best practices. Click here for more Community content or visit Anapedia for detailed technical guidance. Polaris is Anaplan's next-generation calculation engine, designed for highly dimensioned calculation at scale. It represents a paradigm shift in the ability to model business…
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Join Southwest Airlines FP&A Tech Team!
At Southwest Airlines, we're not just about getting people from point A to point B; we're about connecting hearts and creating memorable journeys. As we navigate the skies of innovation, we seek an Anaplan Deployment Expert to be a pivotal part of our mission. 🚀 Why This Role? Strategic Impact: Lead the design and…
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Send dynamic notification to multiple users
The dynamic notification is an excellent tool to increase collaboration between users. However, you can only send a dynamic notification to one user per action. To make the tool more powerful, you should be able to send a dynamic notification to an "user group" or to be able to bundle notifications, in order to notify all…
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How can I change my email id
Hi, Please help me here as I have changed my organization and for new organization I will be using different mail id. How can I change my email id from old organization to new organization in Anaplan community. Thanks, Vicky
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Solution for indent diabled for hierarchical list when the page has more than two axis
Hello fellow Anaplaners, I have a question about the UX for Anaplan for hierarchical list. If I have a list with multiple layers, say P1, P2, P3, and P4, and the workpage had 2 axis, list and line items, in its vertical axis and time in its horizontal axis (see figure below) The list is shown without indentations, and may…
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Introducing New Resources for Anaplan Polaris: Benchmarking Performance
I'm very excited to share two new comprehensive technical resources that showcase the exceptional performance capabilities of Anaplan’s Polaris calculation engine. These documents provide detailed benchmarks and real-world performance metrics that demonstrate how Polaris delivers the scale, speed, and interactivity…
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Reverse BOM recommendation based on Attributes
Hi, Consider this scenario for a Diamond Industry supply chain Demand for Diamond from customer comes with various attributes [cut, carat, clarity, etc etc] Prospect has made over the years diamonds with various attributes. This historical data is available [both BOM and Recipe]. There is a unique Stage 1 BOM and Stage 1…
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Propagate data from branches/parent lists to leaf lists
This one is not for the faint hearted lol. Functionality is to have ability to capture business policies at different levels of the hierarchy. Business policies have customer and product as dimensions. The customer/product list levels is configurable. Customer list has the following hierarchy: Country ⇒ Channel ⇒ Customer…
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Loading Data at Parent and Child Level but avoiding double counting
Hi Community, I am stumped on how best to handle this situation. I have to ingest data at multiple levels of a list hierarchy. i.e. Parent Level (fruit) and child level (eg. apples) but I need to avoid double counting when reporting? I am struggling with how best to handle the situation without double counting or excessive…
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Recording now available! July 30 platform release event
If you missed our July 30, 2025 platform release event, the recording is now available! In this webinar, we highlight 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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Level 3 Establishing Sales Targets: 6.3 Check your Build.
Hello Team How to check the build? the example is not provided. Checked it using excel nevertheless
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Stuck in L2 sprint 1 exam
Here's an analysis of the provided image, which shows a question from an Anaplan Level 2 Model Building - Sprint 1 Exam: Question: When importing into a list, you get an Invalid Parent error. Assuming the file has correctly identified the parent, which of the following could be a valid reason for that error? Select all…
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One Role, two different Page, Read or Write Access for two Pages
Hi Everyone! I would like to get a better idea or a solution for the below (Except DCA) Details: We have "PFF Consumer" Role in the model We have "Global Consumer" Module in the model We have two pages one is "Consumer Summary" 2nd is "Global Target" We have Global Consumer Module in both the pages. Scenario 1: I want the…
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Anaplan Polaris – Optimizing Calculation Performance Using Inline Conditions
This article is part of a series on Polaris best practices. Click here for more Community content or visit Anapedia for detailed technical guidance. This article explores a technique to optimize calculations in Polaris. We examine the practice of including formula conditions directly (“inline”) in the formula itself to…
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Ability to create ragged hierarchies with numbered lists
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: The ability to create a ragged hierarchy with parents of the list member being present in the same list help with certain…
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Level 3 - DAT02 PY Revenue to CY
Hello all experienced MB's Created a Module to Pull PY revenue to CY, Module has dimensions A2 Account>Product# and G2 Country. Whatever country I select the value shown is for ALL regions This is something to do with aggregations, but I'm struggling to figure out which is correct, surely SUM is incorrect. Any suggestions?…
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Level 3 Establishing Sales Targets - TAR01 Detailed Sales Target module
Seen a question regarding TAR01 Detailed Sales Target module, I still have doubts though. In this Module there is a line item "PY Country and Product Family Sales" this value is to be fetched from DAT01 PY Revenue to CY, however there is no hierarchy between Country & Accounts in the training so far. I assume we have to…
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Selection of multiple option from list on UX pages
Hello Anaplaner, Please find the attached Excel sheet along with the use case description below. We have a use case where the end user requires a selection option on the UX page from a list (Product & Company). As you may be aware, there is currently no option available on the UX page to select multiple list members from a…
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DKIM Signature on Support Emails
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: Following the release of the Anaplan Care Portal, we noticed that all support-related emails sent from support@anaplan.com are being…
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Ability to disable commenting on a card/grid
As a Page Builder, I shoud have the ability to disable "COMMENT" feature on a card/grid so as to view all the comments for a context at once in Comment section.
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Page Settings: background color
Can we have option of changing background color of the page like dark theme, light theme?
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Level 1 - 7.2.3 - Date format settings
Hi All, I have imported the data into Employee Details as per the instructions. However, I am unable to find the options to update the date formats for Start Date and Leave Date. Please find the attached screen shot and could someone please help me to resolve it.
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resetting filters
What is the cleanest way of resetting filters on in a page in Anaplan? Is there a way of defaulting the filters to show the total level? Thanks.
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Cell Wrap Feature in Decks
Currently, when using tables in Anaplan Decks, the space is very limited, and comments or notes attached to cells often exceed the visible area. This makes it difficult for users to see the full context or explanations tied to the data. The challenge is that: Row height cannot dynamically increase based on the amount of…
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Level 2 2.3.9.3 Offset
Hello, I am currently using the formula: IF 'SYS01 Time Settings By Week'.'1st Forecast Year?' THEN OFFSET(Volumes, -52, 0) ELSE 0 To calculate the offset volumes. My grid shows Volume information through FY19, but my Offset Volumes are totally blank, even in FY20. Not sure where I am going wrong, but I have attached some…
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Numbered list display name
Hello, i have this issue: the first picture is what im trying to achieve, the second picture is what i have now. i dont understand why the numbered list doesnt take the display name property as its display value, instead whenever im adding a new item (through a form) im having this #.... Any idea? Thanks a lot 🙂
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How can I understand which columns are needed in an upload file?
I am looking at uploading a flat file and getting the error of "property-based import has one of they key properties unmapped - cannot proceed". So I was thinking, how can I understand exactly what the headers should be in an excel for flat file? is there a way of finding this in modules? e.g the columns should be…
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Secrets of a Successful Center of Excellence (CoE): A Q&A with Groupon
Groupon’s Anaplan journey began in 2013, and they quickly adopted the Connected Planning vision, using one platform for integrated end-to-end planning. Join Dragana Kangrga from Groupon, and Wendy Wen and Kevin Jacokes from Impetus Consulting Group, to learn how Groupon realized the need to develop a Center of Excellence…
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Share your best practices on guiding users through the UX — July 2025 Community Challenge
Our latest Best Practices Community Challenge is here, and we’re diving into guiding your users through the user experience! Each Challenge highlights a specific topic where Community members can share their expertise, exchange ideas, and learn from one another. Are you an expert in crafting intuitive and impactful user…
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500 Internal Server Error occurs with requests made with API V2.
To export data from the View, a request is made with an API call to download all pages. The View has a lot of data, so the number of pages will be about 100~3000. I am using Azure pipeline to download one page at a time, but when I finished downloading about 120 pages in 50 minutes, I got a 500 HTTP Internal Server Error.…