UX

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…

I've come across this need more than once now so I figured I'd post it here for the Anaplan product team! We have a client who utilizes a primary hierarchy for a core list but developed the need to see the lowest level in that primary hierarchy rolling up to an alternate hierarchy of parent list members. In their Polaris…

Looking at transitioning from Classic to UX? The U.S.E.R. methodology can be your guide in this journey. Follow these four steps to facilitate your adoption of the UX: Understand The goal with understanding is to build a vision for the UX in your company and empathize with users and address their challenges. This is…

Is there a way to add a conditional formation on bar charts? I need to show past months in one color and future months in another color. I have the logic created and it's working fine on a grid but cannot make it work on a bar chart. Thanks

This shows all comments across all data to all users with access to the UX page. This is not appropriate for any UX which might contain security access sensitive data. Comments on grids and cards ARE security dependent. That works fine. But anyone with access to the page can open this Summary Panel and see ALL comments…

When a line item is pivoted from rows or columns to the context selector on UX, it always shows all line items in the module in context selector, regardless of whether it is Classic or Polaris. This exposes all backend line items in the module.

Author: Marc Donegan is a Product Manager at Anaplan. Anaplan Workflow can be thought of an indispensable workhorse: numerous teams rely on it to turn a planning process into a series of steps someone can follow, approve, and trust. But a workflow is only as good as the experience of running it and building it. If…

When exporting a PDF - the name is always the name of the page as it appears in the app. It would be good if you could configure this so that it recognises the context of what you were exporting, but could supplement this with text. E.g. if you were exporting a board pack, you could select the context of "Europe" and…

I have a question about the new Expand or collapse grid rows option. Is it possible to publish a grid containing a 5-level hierarchy so that all items from levels 1 and 2 are always visible? And I do not want to use a filter for this.

The new expand/collapse functionality for hierarchies on rows is a great improvement! It would be helpful to have the same functionality when a hierarchy is pivoted to the columns. This would give users more flexibility in how they structure a view while still being able to hide or show detail. It would also be useful to…

When we are designing boards for clients we often have a trade-off between: Too many pages Too much information on the page A really powerful feature would be to have the ability to show hide elements of the page (example: fields, cards, grids, charts or even entire rows) based on a line item that can be a user selection /…

If I have an Anaplan page open and leave for an hour and get logged out, logging back in takes me to the home page of Anaplan now instead of to the page I was already on and to fix it I need to right click my back button and click on the page I was already on and that takes me where I wanted to go. I generally keep about…

Hello, I recently had an export issue with grid cards on the UX. A user Click the ellipsis (…) on the top of the grid card, wanting to export the grid as a CSV, but the only option was PDF. It didn't even show the export this view button, it was just export as PDF. I could go to the same page, and I was given the option of…

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 work a lot with Workflow templates for different models and different time periods. It doesn´t make sense to have…

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: When having pictures shown in a line item in the new UX, the summaries levels all take the same height as the lowest list item, even…

Quick Collapse of expanded grid rows will help improve usability of this new feature.

Author: Steve Prendergast is the Director, Product Management at Anaplan. In the world of enterprise planning, clarity is everything. When you're reviewing high-level data and making critical business decisions, the last thing you want is a cluttered dashboard that distracts from the core metrics. That's why we're thrilled…

Anaplan's next quarterly platform release webinar will be held July 29, 2026 at 8 a.m. Pacific Time. During this session, we will explore the latest features so you can optimize your Anaplan experience. Our expert-led session will equip you with a practical guide and live demonstrations to help you get the most out of new…

With the recent release of the Board background customization feature, it would be a fantastic addition to also have the ability to define a specific background color for individual published cards. Currently, cards blend into the main background or rely on default styling. Allowing a dedicated background color for cards…

All End Users and Executives experience this issue. When the model locks up (from integrations, inputs, etc) in the UX, all users see is a "Model is busy" without any context. It would be great if: They can see who is making the update They can get an estimated time of the model being busy This is key - When they see…

Author: Steve Prendergast is the Director, Product Management at Anaplan. In modern business, change is constant. Departments restructure, sales territories split, and product lines evolve. Yet for most planning teams, reflecting these changes in a traditional planning tool has historically been a slow, rigid, and highly…

If you missed our July 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”,…

Author: Mitch Aist is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Senior Solution Architect at Anaplan. In this episode of ‘How I Built It’, Master Anaplanner Mitch Aist shows us how to use the Anaplan UX hands-free using voice dictation and command software, Dragon Naturally Speaking. ‘How I Built It’ video Timestamps 0:00 – Intro…

Hi, I'm trying to trigger a workflow template from UX as an end user and it fails See below The context: I've got my hands on Anaplan Workflow and testing some stuffs and it's suitability on our existing business processes. We already have a Price approval process configured as a custom workflow driven by booleans and…

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: It would be great for my end users to be able to look at a management report and edit text directly on the report without going into…

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: Currently, Anaplan UX charts support only a single Y-axis. This makes it difficult to visualize two related metrics with…

Hi, I tried using create chart from a grid, but step 2 is unavailable and grid logo is grey. Any idea why ?

It would be useful and necessary if hierarchy charts could display full names or possibly include a line break. Currently, when names are too long, dots are displayed.

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: Cell based commenting needs to be a priority in Anaplan UX. This experience should be similar to excel/google sheets where you can…