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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…
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A CoE becomes essential when you own Anaplan
A CoE becomes essential when you own Anaplan Author: Stacey Borne is a Certified Master Anaplanner, former Anaplan Center of Excellence Leader, and runs the Certified Master Anaplanner Program and Anaplan Center of Excellence Programs at Anaplan. You don’t need a large team to have a Center of Excellence, but you do need…
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simple and advanced member search
In the member selector advanced search or basic search is used. It depends on the limit defined in Anaplan XL Options (data options, limit for quick search). However, if the limit is exceedet, the default search type "begins with" is NOT used in advanced search. (contains is used)
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Building a Cash Flow Model (Need Advice)
Hi, So I'm playing around with trying to build a Cash Flow Model in Anaplan that is on a Daily Time Scale [WeekDay Function I plan to use] and has Line Items of different Accounts in the company that must stay at a min/max balance daily. I want to try and make this an Model that will automatically allocate the money around…
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1.5.2 Activity: Import Data into Beginning Inventory
Hello, I have a problem with this activity. I checked previous solutions, but it doesn't work for me… I attached screenshots: Thank you !!
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Waterfall chart
Hi, I'm working on some data that I'd like to present as a cascade chart, but I have no idea how to do it. Unless I'm mistaken, this type of chart isn't available by default. Do you have any tips or advice? Any examples? Thanks in advance, Julien
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Allow ISFIRSTOCCURRENCE to search against time
IFO returns true for the first occurence of a value against a specific list formatted dimension. i would like the possibility to validate against the time dimension as well.
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Webhook Issue
When you hook a Teams chat into a workflow, it returns an error rather than indicating success despite actually sending the Teams message.
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FCR: Extra option required for Shortcut object within dashboard
We use shortcut elements on our dashboard to share reports with our user groups. Yet when we click on this shortcut the report will be opened within the browser. Certain reports we would like to be opened within desktop Excel. Can you pls add an extra option to the shortcut element, so that we can control how the report…
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Activity: Import Data of Employee details
need to import the employee details from .CSV, and i was able to map the start date, current salary and commission% from the sample file. However the names and country are not getting mapped. Could someone help me out here SAMPLE DATA RESULT AFTER THE MAPPING - ONLY start date, current salary and commission% THANK YOU
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FCR: First showing "Explorer" when opening AnaplanXL Web
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 the earlier versions (XLCubed and FluenceXL), users always started directly in the folder tree, whereas now it takes quite a few…
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FCR Feature Enhancement Request: Foreign Exchange Override rates
Current Behavior For the currency conversion (FX) calculation process, only dimensions from the default consolidation model are supported. However, the system currently displays (or allows selection/entry for) dimensions that belong to non-default consolidation models, even though they are not used for FX calculations.…
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Security log
Fluence consolidation is missing a security log that would enable to track changes made to application security. With this log missing, we have internal controls deficiencies. Please add a system log similar to the journal entry log that would track who made what changes to the security and when.
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AnaplanXL Difficulties
Has anyone found success using Anaplan XL with Polaris models in a shared drive with or without concurrent users? My team has experienced a variety of errors, login failures, etc. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. We've been recommended to save and edit files locally, which helps but certainly with its limitations…
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Creation of a Dedicated Administrator Role in Anaplan (separation from WA admin)
Hi! I would like to propose the creation of a new Administrator role within Anaplan. Currently, the only way to manage users within a model (outside of the Administration tab) is by assigning the Workspace Administrator (WA) role. However, the WA role requires a Model Builder license, which is significantly more expensive…
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Give us the ability make Line Item names dynamic similar to display names for numbered lists
I would like to request the ability to use formula-driven display names for Line Items, similar to how display names work for numbered lists. This feature would allow the display names to automatically update based on the model’s current period settings. For example, if I have a line item named "FY25 Budget," it would…
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Comments within formula
There should be a syntax to add comments within the formula. All programming languages provide this feature, for example: /* comment */ is used in Java, plsql. This will help to temporary remove any part of the formula for testing or add meaningful comments for reference.
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Where to find the Anaplan Way app?
Hi I'm going through the training for The Anaplan Way and have come across several references to an Anaplan Way app. Clicking on the link in the training brings me into the Anaplan App Hub rather than to the app itself. I've done general searches but have not been able to locate this app - can somebody please point me in…