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Unavailable Action Help
Hi I have a Button/Action on a dashboard showing unavailable, and if i look in contents i can not tick it, then comes the fun of trying to find which action, module, dashboard etc etc is the cause. I have been looking for an hour now and still no joy, is there a way this 'unavailable' could be more useful?
How many modules should be in one Model general?
Hi I'm planing to re-factoring our client's Models as some Models have over 100 modules which is not easy to maintain. Please advise how many modules should be in one Model in general. Best, Hisashi Yamaguchi
Ability to hide the email address from the blue toaster pop up
Description: We would like a way to eliminate the email address that shows up with the blue toaster box. Benefit/impact: We would like to eliminate this because we had a consulting group hang up the model and the end users were questioning why someone outside of the company was accessing our model. It created a lot of…
Global search/navigation - I want an easy way to find objects and data points as admin/end user
Description: Implement a global search across all modules/line items in the model. Please consider including the following: * In other software, there is a smart search feature when looking for a class, where I can type a couple of letters in upper case and it will match on words that begin with those letters. So the…
TEXTLIST as aggregation function, but only display unique
Hello, Is there a way to get the TEXTLIST function, when used in the aggregation format, to only display unique entries? I have the formula working in my model, but it is displaying every entry under the parent, rather than unique entries. I know that the normal TEXTLIST function has a "UNIQUE" option. Best, Matthew
Ability to use hotkeys to scroll page up/down
Description: Add Ctrl up and down shortcuts (or ctrl+Home or ctrl+End) to get to the first/last cells in the module Example of enhancement: Adding a page-up or page-down hot key would allow for quicker navigation through large modules/lists. Benefit/impact: Scrolling or clicking one by one is inefficient, and the faster a…
Save Subsidiary view as default
Hi When I click on the eyeball to open a subsidiary view, I get the default grid format with Time in columns. I can pivot the grid as desired, but then, how do I save this as the default view so that it opens like this when I click on the eyeball next time? I can use 'save as', the view is saved as a subsidiary view and…
Group models on the main launchpad by user defined groups.
Description: Group models on the main launchpad by user defined groups. Example of enhancement: Admins will be able to define groups in their workspace, which can be applied to models in the workspace. The models on the main screen will then display based on the group that they have been assigned. Benefit/impact: Currently…
Summary of Selected Cells Displays on Dashboard
Description: When selecting several cells in a module within a dashboard, we would like to see the summary (and perhaps average and count) of the selected cells displayed as well. This is similar to the customized status bar in Excel that shows the Average, Sum, and Count of selected cells.
Ability to collapse/group module views
Description: Currently Views when they are setup are listed under a module. It would be useful if there was a way to hide views, only show relevant views to users (i.e. they MUST be able to decide what they want to see not an ADMIN), or at the very least a way to collapse/group the views. Benefit/impact: Currently one of…
History Enhancement: Details of changes to workflow status
Description: Currently changes to workflow status appear as follows in model history. ||ID||Date/Time (UTC)||User||Description||Previous Value||New Value||Module/List||Line Item/Property||Target User|| |0001|2017-01-01 00:00:00|user@anaplan.com|Model change (no details available)| | | | | | This does not give any…
Documentation/text on any object in the model (model documentation)
Description: As an administrator, I should be able to put a text description/documentation on any model object in the settings tab or blueprint. This should include: * Line items (in blueprint) * Roles * Versions * Actions * Modules * Dashboards * Lists * Properties * Subsets * Line item subsets Note that I should be able…
Mailto function multiple line body
in regard to the mailto anapedia, how to have the body of the email to have multiple lines? i.e. how to make %0D%0A work in to the mailto formula?
Copy/Paste not working for computers set to different number formats. Requires "locale."
Description: When copying a cell in Anaplan, the underlying value gets copied (ignoring the 'Decimal Point:' format set for the line item), and the browser's locale is used to set the decimal separator. This is flawed for companies with users in various parts of the world. eg, Anyone with French browser locale (which uses…
Set default level in page selector on grid
Description: As a model-builder, I want to be able to set the default level for a page selector on a grid published to a dashboard. Example: For example, on a composite hierarchy, I might want it always to default to the lowest level, regardless of a user's selective access. Note that if a user can save their own default…
Read/write access by line item
Description: Enable read/write access by line item. Examples: Hide intermediate calculations, and don't let the end user see them even with Show All. Disable data entry where some line items are imported.
Request for keyboard navigation and selection in TreeView of List Settings
Description: With the mouse, I am able to select multiple tree nodes and drag-n-drop them to a new location. This is great. I would like to be able to make the tree selection using keyboard and close with the drag-n-drop, or a Copy-Paste operation to complete this action. Example of enhancement: Steps would be: 1. Focus…
"Show Hidden Content" negates restricting access to Roles
Description: If you are not a WSA and certain views have been hidden from you in the "Contents" tab, you can show them using "Show Hidden Contents". This was always possible but wasn't as explicitly available as it is now. Users can edit these 'hidden' modules, probably because they have Write access, but this is not…
Dynamic Versions in Anaplan
Hi Team, My model has 4 versions: Actual Version: Monthly Input Forecast Version: Once yearly Input Q2 forecast Adjustment: Q3 Forecast Adjustment: Let's suppose we have forecasted for whoel year and users are done with Actuals input of Jan,Feb,Mar,Now the Higher management wants to adjust there forecast for Q2 in which Q2…
Ability to archive versions in a model
Desription of the enhancement: We would like the ability to 'archive' versions within a model, so that we can save the data and look back at it later, but it will not take up space. Note that version subsets will not fully meet this requirement, because if you remove a version from a subset in a module, you will lose data…
Include slicer functionality similar to excel - i.e. save filters in a button
Description of the enhancement required: Enabling slicer facility in Anaplan tool like the one in Excel https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/use-slicers-to-filter-data-249f966b-a9d5-4b0f-b31a-12651785d29d How would it help your business process: Customer would need this facility of Slicer enhancement due to multiple…
Improve error message where you are unable to give a list item a child
Description of the enhancement: Improve error message where you are unable to give a list item a child, if it has a child item in a different list You are unable to give a list item a child, if it has a child item in a different list. Error: "Parent item has a child item that is in a different list: You can only add a…
Filter option should select highest parent hierarchy as default
Description of the enhancement required: When there is a filter (dropdown) in a dashboard, customer wants the biggest parent as the default selected item. For example, "Total region" is always selected at opening. How would it help their business process: They use filters in all of their dashboards, and as admin or user,…
Match subsets automatically in import mapping when names are identical
Description of the enhancement required: If we create Subsets in a new target list with identical names, Anaplan should be smart enough to match those with the source subsets when running import. Unfortunately, the system appends " / Is Member Of" to the source, causing the matching on name to fail. This causes the user to…
Ability to wrap text on line item names
Description of the enhancement required: Word Wrap for Line Items and/or Rows instead of just Columns An example of the enhancement: Ability to wrap text on a dashboard without having to publish the line item as a "selected line item" How would it help their business process: Majority of the line items or members on rows…
Custom time period format
Description of the enhancement required: Include a way to format weekly dates by Start/date - end/date such as in excel. A story for why they want the enhancement: Currently we have a gantt chart view in Excel which shows run dates on the columns with the activity detail in the middle of the grid. It is easier for us…
Add new function AllPeriodsValue
Description of the enhancement required: Add new function AllPeriodsValue An example of the enhancement: The AllPeriodsValue function would work like YEARVALUE, but utilizing periods rather than year. It would have a parameter to choose whether a Brought Forward value should be included in the result. How would it help…
Ability to add brought-forward value in time totals
Description of the enhancement required: Enable the option to include Brought-Forward value in 'All Periods' time total. An example of the enhancement: When turning on Brought Forward, the user could specify when selecting 'All Periods' for this item, if the resulting value should include the Brought Forward value in that…
List cell "Contains" Typeahead
Description of enhancement: List cell input typeahead to work by "contains" typed text, not "starts with" (or make this a setting in blueprint format options). Example: The test list contained regions EMEA, APJ and NOAM. There's a list formatted line item in the module and if I type in the letter A, user wants all the 3…
Increase limitation on the number of cells drilldown can handle
Description of enhancement requested: Currently the drill down feature has a limitation on the number of cells that can be shown which is an issue when the data I am utilizing has a significant amount of data. I have one division alone that has 200 departments and when I need to drill into that division to try to find why…

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