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LOOKUP on Time | Model Optimization Team series
Hello Anaplan Community! Welcome to the Model Optimization team's monthly blog post. This is our last post in an eight-part series, on the topics we see occurring most frequently in slow customer models. Our aim is to inform and guide how to build with best practice intentions for these model building topics. Each month,…
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Calculate once and reference | Model Optimization Team series
Hey! Welcome to the Model Optimization team's monthly blog post. This is an eight-part series, following the topics we see occurring most frequently in slow customer models. Our aim is to inform and guide how to build with best practice intentions for these model building topics. Each month, two of our analysts will take…
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How to roll back a production model to recover lost data
Author: Jessie Zhao is a Solution Architect and Certified Master Anaplanner at Anaplan. Working with a model in ALM has a lot of benefits. These include building new features in a development model anytime without affecting production users, securely managing production lists by identifying structural data that needs to…
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Kindly help me to understand how I can achieve this?
I have two modules. In the first module, when I select "America," its child fields should become editable. If I change the value of any child field from zero to a non-zero value, all other child fields under "America" should become non-editable, except for the one I modified. If I revert that value back to zero, all child…
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Open source module link in NUX
Suggest to add the "Open Source module" ability to the NUX, incl. the current analysis options available in the old UX. Right now our users can use the open source module function in the old UX whenever they want to dig into the details, see all the underlying formulas/comments, and do ad hoc analysis. Especially, the…
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Evolve your Anaplan ecosystem with enterprise governance
In this article, you'll find resources to support evolving your Anaplan ecosystem with enterprise governance. This broad topic was covered in depth during Anaplan Live! 2022 — including focused discussion on Centers of Excellence; model governance; workspace architecture; data hubs and data integration; build and…
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[Start Here] User Access Management - Part 1: Get Started
A foundational design element of any Anaplan model is User Management. This includes creating the design within the Anaplan model and app, as well as establishing the process for managing and maintaining access once users are active. The table below contains questions that are typically asked as part of the Foundations…
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Iterative Development in Polaris
This article is part of a series on Polaris best practices. Click here for more Community content or visit Anapedia for detailed technical guidance. As Anaplan solution architects and model builders begin to develop in Polaris, it's important to consider how you approach the development workflow. In Polaris the upper limit…
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Is there a shortcut to go to the module referenced in a formula?
Some of my time is spent working through models to see how everything is connected and im just wondering if there were any shortcuts to access modules referenced in formula more quickly? Currently i'm looking at the formula and then manually locating the module from my modules list to then open it. If no shortcut exists I…
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Date into Time Period Month
I have a situation where i have a line item formatted as a date(lets name it dateLine), and another line item formatted as time period month(monthLine). Currently monthLine=Period(dateLine) which gives me result like :- jan 21, feb 21, etc. However because of Period function limitation of model calendar, for values going…
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April 2025 platform releases and what’s next
Check out the latest Anaplan feature updates and enhancements in our April 2025 official release notes. The information below offers supplemental information to that post. UX New UX for Models section in Administration The Models section in Administration has been redesigned with a more intuitive interface. Tenant…
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How to DYNAMICALLY Copy Data from One LIST ITEM to Another?
Hi Anaplan Community, I’m working on a use case where we have to work with templates (List: L_Template#), data pertaining to the template stored in a module (IM01 Input Data). We have given the end-user privilege to create N number of templates, now the ask is if we could Copy data in IM01 Input data of Template 1 to…
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When to import alphanumeric data as numbers
Author: Andrew Barnett is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Vice President at PJT Partners. Today, we will be discussing a scenario that we often run into in Anaplan. Numeric data comes in with units of measure, whether explicitly stated or implied in the data. The data might be a currency, like US Dollars or Mexican…
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Alternative for the default export chunking
Author: Anya Skvortsova is a Certified Master Anaplanner and CoE Lead at Asana. Problem statement When exporting the data from Anaplan module, Anaplan’s default chunk size is 10MB. The common challenge is that the chunks produced may have the rows split not just into the separate files but also split the row in the middle…
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Load FY-Level Data into specific month via Data Import Between Modules
Hi Community, I have a scenario where I need to push data from one module to another within Anaplan. Here's the setup: The source module contains data at the FY level (i.e., yearly summary), example FY25 The target module has the same dimensionality but is at a monthly granularity. I need to load the FY25 value into…
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Level 3 - Ask the Stakeholders - Establishing Sales Targets
Level 3 - Ask the Stakeholders Establishing Sales Targets Process Questions This forum is for asking the stakeholders of the Unicorn Candy Company questions about the Establishing Sales Targets Process. The Anaplan Academy team will be monitoring this forum during US Central standard business hours. Please allow up to 3…
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Streamlining travel data: A comprehensive approach to trip parsing and expense linking
Author: Steven Kraplin is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Senior Financial Analyst at The MathWorks. In a recent project, I was faced with the task of designing a model that could efficiently consolidate travel data from various systems. The goal was to organize the data into trips and link all related expenses incurred…
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Improve Keyboard Navigation
Similar to a post by AnaplanIdeas found here, it would be great if Anaplan had improved keyboard navigation. Specifically, if the following areas were navigable by keyboard: * Model settings pane * Lists panel * Modules panel Importantly, if users should be able enter elements using the enter key, rather than having to…
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Pages with 2 models as a source has issues with Actions. A major problem
We have a new page with 2 model sources, and an action button from each source. When we select the first model 'CyT - DATA HUB', we see the 'UPDATE SUPPLY CHAIN' action greyed out as expected, as it is from another Model, and cannot be pressed. The action info is correct (highlighted) for the DATA HUB 'IMPORT ORDER'…
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Enhancement Request for the ability to assign list items to a subset using a formula
I would like the ability to populate a subset based on a line item attribute in another import module that contains the full list.
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Saved views
We have a number of saved views across various modules in our model, does the number of saved views impact model performance at all?
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Formatting time: Period instead of month
Would be great if a customer could choose how to format the months not just Jan 21 but P01 21 or P1 21 or P1 FY21. Now the period notation is only possible when selecting "13 4-week periods", but not if a customer selects any of the other option, like a month model or a week model with 4-4-5.
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Alternate Hierarchies - Use Cases
Hi All The topic of Alternate Hierarchies is very interesting for me, as we are exploring this topic as a future development for the product We are looking to build functionality that will allow multiple parents off a single child member and specify which hierarchies should be used in which part of the model This will…
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Architectural Use Cases for setting Action Imports / Import Data Sources to Production Data
There's only 1 practical architectural use case I can think of at the moment why you would consider setting actions as production data but would like to check in with others if there are other use cases I have not considered. The one use case I have considered is if you are splitting the same model in to regional models,…
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The ability to add a dynamic sub total to a grid
I would like the ability to add a dynamic subtotal to a grid, so when rows are filtered out the total is updated on the fly
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How to Pull Data from Non-native Versioned Source Modules into a versioned module?
I have a Report module that uses native versions (Actual & Budget). I need to pull data from two separate source modules: One module contains Actuals data (not versioned). Another module contains Budget data (also not versioned). Since the source modules do not have versions, how can I pull their data into my versioned…
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Creating a two-layer ranking system in Anaplan
Author: Laiza Tagumpay is a Certified Master Anaplanner, former Customer Success Business Partner at Anaplan in the Philippines, and is now a Solution Architect at an implementation partner in Canada. When developing effective plans, companies often rely on multiple layers of prioritization criteria. In this blog, we’ll…
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Is there a way to get a timestamp automatically added to an export file name
It would be super helpful to have the timestamp as part of the export file name in Anaplan, especially when clients run reports every day during the budget season. Is it possible to do? And do automatically?
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Spring cleaning: A step-by-step guide to optimizing your model
Author: Ekaterina Garina is a Certified Master Anaplanner and EPM Consultant at Keyrus. Does your Anaplan model feel cluttered with too many line items and modules, making it difficult to find anything? Are you dealing with redundant calculations? Need a little optimization? Or perhaps you have a large model that needs…
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OEG Best Practice: Data Hubs: Purpose and peak performance
You may have heard about a model called a Data Hub, but perhaps you aren’t confident that you understand the fundamentals, primary functions, or considerations when architecting one. There are three main advantages to incorporating a Data Hub: Single source of truth : Stores all transactional data from the source system.…