Hi All, Thought I would post this question... I'm working on a model with a weekly timescale. (13 4Week periods) Normally there is 52 weeks in a year, but every few years there will be a 53rd week. I …
I have a module where a user enters in employee start dates and then the termination date. There is also a field for annual salary. This module does NOT have time as dimension. It does have organizati…
I'm relatively new to Anaplan having just completed the various training courses. I've been trying to figure this out for a couple of days using sum and lookup but seem to be encountering the same err…
Hi. I have a flat data module at 'opportunity' level, with eg. column for 'division', 'dept', and lots of others at a very granular level (eg. by day). I have an aggregate module (eg. at division by m…
New to Anaplan so please bear with me. Taking online fundamentals training and have got as far as creating module. With Versions (Monthly), Line Items (Products), Sales Reps I have created Forecast, A…
What's the difference between Show and Hide for rows/columns (apart from the obvious)? The answer is how the module behaves when new items are subsequently added. So, if I have a module with 10 line i…
In one of the models on the App Hub I have found a text-formatted line item with a tick symbol (✔ - possibly a check in American?) input. How can symbols be input as text? What symbols are acceptable?…
Hi All I am new to Anaplan and in a learning mode. I see on my workspace administrator login, that on a dashboard displaying charts, if I click on the green "menu" in the corner of the chart, there is…
We use Anpalan for commissions and would like to be able to restrict access to sales folks during a periods of time when we are finalizing the compensation. There are times when we are making adjustme…
Why is setting a current version "a potentially destructive action and may lead to data loss"? If I have no current version and want to select one, does any data get lost? If I already have a current …
A partner asked us about some modelling techniques for top down budgeting. They would like to create a model where there would be a growth percentage applied to the whole P&L as the first step. Then i…
Hello - I have a client that is requesting that users (non-administrators) be able to add detailed line items, on the fly, when completing their forecast. They will also need Time as a dimension to en…
I have created views and dashboards for end users (and myself) that show 2-3 years of weekly data. However, the most important and useful data is the few weeks before and after whatever the current we…
Hi All I am pretty new to Anaplan and attempting my first real life modeling. I have a module that contains sales opportunity data, including the date the opportunity was created, its division and its…
How do I give dashboard users the ability to run a bulk copy from a button on the dashboard? Specifcally I have a list which contains "versions" I want to make the copy of Current Month to Prior Month…
I have a problem where I have selective access on a list that a lot of users have access to the top-level. I need to be able to "lock", or make Read-only, certain child items in the list but still giv…
Hi all, I need help with the following: i have a module with a Product List, this list cotains unique for each product List "X" Users Product A 100 Product B 200 Product C 300 PARENT TOTAL 700 But th…
This is both some fairly basic tips and a question. The tips part is that in Pivot view, the icons for list and list subsets are different, so that you can tell the difference. In the attached snip, P…
Sometimes you want to change format throughout the complete model. For example, in parts of the EU you want comma decimal seperator instead of dot as is default. Or, if you start with an accelerator, …
I have a use case where I have to check that the assigned task days to a project fit within the days available between the project start and end dates, after accounting for weekends. I initially had a…
Hi, I have a conditional formatting in a module witch controls a value. When I use this module like a Form, itseems it does'nt work. Any suggestion ? August 4th, 2014 The solution is : to build the co…
Hi All, We have a client that is exporting a large dashboard from Anaplan to a PDF. The report contains several hundred accounts in rows and monthly time periods in columns. Since the report spans mul…
Is it possible to display the codes for a list in a module rather than the list item names themsleves? If this were a setting by role or user it would be even better.
Hi I have a dashboard with a view of product hierarchy. I have a second module made up of a subset of the product hierarchy I want to synchronise the second view when I select a Product parent in the …
Say you want to use a page selector for your time dimension but you would like to filter the list? (almost a time subset). You can't do this directly as a page selector, but you can use a filtered lis…
If there are different businesses with unique planning characteristics (e.g. revenue and cost of goods) but operating within the same metadata framework, is it preferable to create different models re…
I have a use case where the client performs inverse calculations between versions. For example, here are the line items: * # New Customers * New Customers MAC (Actuals come from GL and forecast is cal…
Recently I had a requirement to restrict users access to dashboards. We had two types of planners: * Detailed planners who plan by week * Annual planners who plan at annual level They use lots of the …
