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Author: Sayontan is a Certified Master Anaplanner and EPM Director responsible for growing US GenXAI. He has been working on the platform since 2013 and has experience across all domains of Anaplan solutions — Finance, Sales Performance & Supply Chain. He is also PMP certified and operates as Supply Chain SME. In a…

Greetings, fellow Anaplanners. I’ve always wanted something that could take thousands of line items and help me work out where to start improving a model. So I built it. It’s called Anaplan Estate. Give it your Line Items and Actions exports, and it brings optimisation findings into an action plan, with evidence and…

In FCR users can be created using an import file. But once user is created it is no longer possible to import changes on users. Being able to import all user at once (all or some) to update their properties (except ID) instead of changing them all manually would be a great improvement.

Hello, On FCR, before the last release around 22 september, in the consolidation rule we could change account and movement manually. Now if there are no account fill, we can manually fill one but if an account is already fill we can't. We have to use the magnifying glass and select the account. It is a huge waste of time.…

Hi Everyone, We have a requirement in Anaplan Consolidation & Reporting (Fluence) where the Entity Structure needs to change effective January 2026. The key requirement is that the existing entity structure should continue to be applicable for all reporting and consolidation periods through December 2025, while the new…

Author: Saurabh Kapoor is a Certified Master Anaplanner and a Technical Lead at HCLTech. Hello Anaplan Community! Thank you for checking out my 'How I Built It' tutorial. In this video, I demonstrate how I built an AdHoc Hub, a self-service integration framework that enables planners to execute data load processes on…

Author: Chandresh Lad is a Product Manager at Anaplan. Building a great model is a significant achievement. Keeping it effective, reliable, and easy to manage as the business evolves is a different challenge. Many Anaplan implementations begin with a clear objective: deliver a planning solution that meets an immediate…

Hi everyone, I'm working on recreating a P&L reporting model in Anaplan and would appreciate some guidance on the best way to structure the underlying modules. In my current setup, I have a Line Item Subset (LIS) containing P&L line items, which I am using in a reporting module to display Actual, Budget, and Variance side…

Anaplan Modelers: Has Anyone Recreated a Showcase Model for Learning Purposes? One of the most valuable learning resources I've come across is Anaplan's Modeling Showcase. It features sophisticated, real-world model examples that offer an incredible opportunity to learn how experienced model builders structure their…

It would be great to have a NUX page that allows working with data from all the models connected to the page simultaneously, without having to select a specific model at the top of the page. This would be especially useful for model builders when creating control pages that show synchronization results and model statuses,…

I wanted to experiment with how far I could take Anaplan beyond traditional planning use cases, so I built a fully functional Wordle-style game in Anaplan 🎯 The game currently has 2,000 different games, with each game having its own word. The Context Selector determines which game you're playing. Some of the Anaplan…

Business Problem & Current Limitation Current State: In our current Polaris implementation, the cumulative dimension index across just five core business dimensions has reached 55. The Constraint: With a hard ceiling at 64, this leaves a headroom of only 9 remaining indexes across the entire workspace/model scope. Direct…

As an Anaplan user tasked with helping your teams better understand their data through your Anaplan UX dashboards, we want to hear more about what your end users tell you. What kinds of visualizations are they are asking you for, what do they struggle with in accessing and understanding your data, and how you resolve those…

Hi guys, I'm running into a few errors trying to install M2Crypto on a windows machine. I've done a fair bit of research and it seems to be a common problem with the library. Wondering if anyone here has experienced similar issues and resolved them? I'm using Win10(64 bit), Python 3.8 through Pycharm. Pip 20.1.1. I've…

Within the Security Profile Access we have specified entity access based on roles. This works fine for reporting purposes and for data input via a template. But within our month-end process we have also an import task. This import task ignores any rule defined within Security Profile Access. Please add functionality to…

There are two enhancements that would make Anaplan Workflow much easier to use, especially when dealing with more complex business processes. 1. Ability to loop back to any of the previous steps Currently, we can create branches based on a decision task, but there is no option to go back to an earlier step in the workflow.…

For an unknown reason, I always got all the imported items ignored. I don't know why this is happening…

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Hello Friends, If I use Header row 1 and Data row 2. I face this issue with mapping. and if I use Header row 2 and Data row 3, I see this. Could you help me with this?

Dear all, I am having trouble importing data with selecting the source for Target No.4 which is REV02 Volume Inputs Line Items. I have tried all options on the drop down menu on the left (refer attachment). Pls advise or comment. Thanks.

Hi team, Missing out some step data while mapping, data was updated successfully attached screenshot (12error), however data is being uploaded with ignored values. Do I have to make any change in the module section? @noelle_murphy 

I can't see the Target items, please help me.

Author: Kira Wagner is a Product Owner at Anaplan. Snowflake Writeback is now available as a new addition to our integration capabilities. As the first of several planned writeback connectors, this feature is part of the Pipelines functionality in Anaplan Data Orchestrator. It allows you to move transformed and validated…

Hi there, I am having trouble importing data and I think my mapping may be off. When I get to the Product Details Line Items, there are no selections available. Can anyone advise?

How to do this ? if some one could guide me step by step…thank u

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

Hi Everyone My import was successful however it doesn't match the guide Here's the result of my mapping Here's the guide Hope to hear from everyone soon!

Using below mapping trying to get to but instead I am getting below, what am I doing wrong? I am actually on Lesson 6.10.2 Activity: Add Formulas to Department Details Module , but because I am unable to import and map the E1 departments lists the correct way I am stuck. Please help.

Let me know what am I doing wrong here. getting different result while importing. 

When you inherit or start optimizing a large Anaplan model, what usually takes the most time? A. Understanding the existing model structure and dependencies B. Finding and optimizing slow or complex formulas C. Cleaning up unnecessary modules, line items, or lists D. Documentation and understanding why certain design…