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UX best practices for building impactful dashboards in Anaplan: Part 1
Author: Arjun Gandhi, Certified Master Anaplanner with over a decade of experience leading enterprise Anaplan implementations across industries. ———- “If your dashboard doesn’t tell users what to do within 10 seconds, it’s already failed.” 🧭 Introduction: Why UX design in Anaplan matters Anaplan’s UX is more than just the…
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August 2025 platform releases and what’s next
Check out the latest Anaplan feature updates and enhancements in our August 2025 official release notes. The information below offers supplemental information to that post. Planning experience Multi-browser tab syncing When changing context or data on a UX page, you can now view real-time data updates across up to five…
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UX best practices for building impactful dashboards in Anaplan: Part 2
Author: Arjun Gandhi, Certified Master Anaplanner with over a decade of experience leading enterprise Anaplan implementations across industries. Anaplan’s UX is more than just the surface layer of your model — it’s the gateway to planning adoption, collaboration, and decision-making. Whether it’s a CFO reviewing revenue…
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Predefaulting A Feild in ANAPLAN
Hello Anaplan Community, I have a special requirement from a customer and would appreciate your input. Let me explain the situation: We have a hierarchy with three levels: Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3. Screen 1: Creation of Level 1 Items On this screen, the user selects a team. Based on their selection, an action runs to…
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Anaplan Color Pallet
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: The Anaplan Color pallet should be consistent across all forms. Text Pallet is different Action Icon Default Colors, and different…
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Workflow - Add Machine task on Reject
As a workflow builder, I want to have the possibility to add a machine task after a reject, so that I can run a process or write data. For example: A Decision task can end on Reject. Afterwards, it should run a process/task, specifically designed for rejection (Import Item, write task, run Anaplan Process). This…
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Is there not a way to disable or not show Source Module on a Card?
Seems like the New UX is still missing the functionality to toggle on or off the ability for an end user to open up the "Source Module" from a card on a page. This was easy to control in classic dashboards but seems to not be possible to configure now in the New UX.
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Is anyone else having problems with the management reporting page?
While working these last few days I've encountered these problems: layout/conditional formatting not saving after a pivot mix going back and seeing blank columns the "apply" button not clicking after any settings Has this happened to you too? Do you have any suggestions? These problems slow me down a lot and require me to…
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Various grid view layouts based on controller selection / Dynamic Select Levels
Hi, I have the following questions. Here's the full hierarchy of the company structure along with the data that aggregates to higher levels. However, I’d like users to have the ability to dynamically manage this view. For example, ZC&C - XYZ might want to see the entire hierarchy expanded, while FBL - ABC would prefer only…
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Design standards for a superior user experience — Part 2: UX page standards
Author: Aaron Overfors is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Principal Architect at Spaulding Ridge. In my first article, we detailed how to create a robust design for the user experience; now comes pulling it all together and building the actual pages! We will examine the concepts and ingredients of a strong page to focus…
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Filter non-zero rows based on Context Selector selection
Hi, I have a filter to filter out non-zero rows with the employees across to top as columns and a total colum for the LOB (Line of Business). I have set the hierarchy so I can select LOB A or LOB B from the context selector or All LOBs. Employee 1 // Employee 2 // LOB A Project A Project B Project C The issue is that…
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Ability to input text commentary with text formatting options in Management Reporting - New UX
While working on a project, a useful implementation emerged. Currently in Anaplan, via Management Reporting, it is possible to create documentation that cannot be customised by the user. In fact, the end user using the system can only look at the data and comments previously entered by the Page Builder. We tried creating a…
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How to publish Workflow triger button into UX
Hi, I am working on setting up workflow and cannot find the place where I can publish workflow button into the UX - so for example end user can start workflow for the UX without entering Workflow tab
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Page Source Model Settings in Manage Models
Hi, It would help productivity and reduce errors if we could add additional source models in the App's Manage Model settings. Currently, you can only change an app from here but to add additional sources you must go to each page individually. For ease of use, it would also be great is we could choose to hide archived model…
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Synchronize Export Action based on UI Context Selector
Often times when we publish explicit Export Action as Button in dashboard, either we could configure as Full export (Tabular single or Multiple) or we will need to provide boolean check box, to identify which context they are trying to export How often is this impacting your users? Frequent impact to Users while we create…
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Is it possible to Sync a Context Selector to a Field Car Line Item?
I have a grid dimensioned by country and Brand (No time). Country is visible in the grid, while Brand appears on the top right as a page selector - as the user wants to see values by country, one brand at a time. The question is: Is there a way to have a field above said grid. Formatted as brand, so that the user instead…
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Dependent Context Selectors
Add the ability to filter context selectors based on a selection in another context selector (like in already existing dependent drop-downs)
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Ability to Post Images Behind Firewall
Just curious if the Anaplan "images" card has the ability to post images behind a firewall? Or do all images within Anaplan interfaces need to be publicly available? I saw in a thread someone mentioned an "internal server", but what I'm not clear on is how to configure that, or if the "images" feature has any way to…
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Design standards for a superior user experience — Part 1: Effective dashboarding
Author: Aaron Overfors is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Principal Architect at Spaulding Ridge. A strong user experience is the key to almost every Anaplan solution’s success. A well-designed Anaplan model that scales, performs well, and is easy to maintain will become shelf-ware without a thoughtful, purposeful user…
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Selection of multiple option from list on UX pages
Hello Anaplaner, Please find the attached Excel sheet along with the use case description below. We have a use case where the end user requires a selection option on the UX page from a list (Product & Company). As you may be aware, there is currently no option available on the UX page to select multiple list members from a…
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Page Settings: background color
Can we have option of changing background color of the page like dark theme, light theme?
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Notification Button: Multi selection on Notification action created from UX Page
While configuring Notification button, from UX Page, either we can pre-select all the person need to be notified, or notified based on line item/role configuration. Idea: It would be good if we can let Users choose people who need to be notified, from UI. Like a checkbox based on User list. The user will then check the…
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Enable Sorting by Columns or Rows in UX Worksheets and Boards
Description: Currently, Anaplan UX allows limited sorting capabilities, primarily focused on rows in grid views. However, users often need to sort data by columns or rows, depending on the layout and analysis requirements. This limitation affects usability in both Board and Worksheet pages, especially when working with…
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Enable Right-Click Functionality on Any Cell Within a Row to Add/Delete List Members in Worksheets
Description: Currently, the ability to add or delete list members in Anaplan UX worksheets is limited to specific interactions, often requiring users to click on the row header or use action buttons. This can be unintuitive, especially when working with hierarchical lists or when users are focused on cell-level data entry.…
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Ability to Default Close the Additional Insight Panel in Worksheet
Description: Currently, the Additional Insight panel in Anaplan worksheets is set to open if there are cards in the additional insight pane. Proposed Enhancement: Introduce a setting or toggle that allows page builders to default the Additional Insight panel as closed for a worksheet. This could be implemented as: A toggle…
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Enable Native Reporting from Model History Logs
Description: Currently, model history in Anaplan is only accessible via manual export and review, which limits its usability for ongoing audit, compliance, and operational reporting. Users must download the history file and process it externally to gain insights into model changes, user activity, and data updates.…
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Enable Case-Insensitive Filtering in UX Pages
Description: Currently, filters applied in Anaplan UX pages are case-sensitive, which can lead to inconsistent behavior and confusion for end users. For example, filtering for "North" will not match "north" or "NORTH", even if they refer to the same logical value. Proposed Enhancement: Introduce an option to make…
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Enable Moving or Copying MyPages Between Models
Description: Currently, MyPages are tied to a specific model, and there is no native functionality to move or copy them to another model. This limitation creates friction for users who: Build personal pages in a development or sandbox model and want to migrate them to production. Need to replicate similar MyPages across…
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Ability to perform "Insert Multiple Items" function on Board Pages
Today, you can add more than one list member on a worksheet via a "right-click" > Insert multiple items. However, you cannot do this same action on a board without creating an Import action that temporarily locks up the model. This impacts model builders and architects when designing UX pages and all end users needing to…
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Anaplan ANZ newsletter - July 2025
Welcome to the July edition of your Anaplan ANZ Customer Newsletter! This is the Australia and New Zealand specific content that will help keep you apprised of the latest in our collaboration, inform you of product updates and industry news, and connect you with our broader Anaplan community and resources to stay at the…