Application Lifecycle Management

Managing frequent structural changes during development
Imagine the following scenario: You need to make regular structural changes to a deployed model (for example, weekly changes to the switchover date). You can make these changes by setting revision tags in the development model. However, you also have a development cycle that spans the structural changes. What do you do?…
ALM and SELECT clause on a Line Item Subset
Hi Anaplan community, I am wondering if I will be able to setup ALM if I have a SELECT clause selecting one list item of my line item subset. Kind regards, Louise
Data Related Training Classes
* Anaplan Connect (301) * Anaplan Data Integration Basics (303) * Creating a JAVA keystore for use with Anaplan Connect Overview This set of classes address how data is used and managed within an Anaplan model: Anaplan Connect (301) Anaplan Connect enables the Anaplan administrator to automate Anaplan imports of data and…
Model Migration from Anaplan Cloud workspace to Google Cloud workspace
Hi Anaplan, Does anyone know if it is possible to migrate a model from the Anaplan Cloud to the Google Cloud and vice versa? If a model has been constructed in a customer's Anaplan Cloud workspace can it still be migrated to a different customer's Google Cloud workspace using a Model ID and Workspace ID? Any information…
Streamlined Workflow Migration for Environment Transitions
I suggest enhancing the product feature to streamline the migration of workflows from the Dev Model to the UAT and Production environments. Currently, the process requires manually duplicating existing workflows and updating each task—such as the source workspace, source model, import actions, and ADO links—to reflect the…
Save incomplete changes when synchronizing in ALM
Imagine this scenario: You are in the middle of making changes in your development model and have been doing so for the last few weeks. The changes are not complete and are not ready to synchronize. However, you just received a request for an urgent fix from the user community that is critical for the forthcoming monthly…
Change Management - ALM
I have been having hard time to manage change effectively with ALM. Sometimes while working on feature request as part of our projects/sprint. We come across some break-fixes which need to be pushed to production but since ALM is all or nothing, Is there a way or an update in roadmap to allow selective promotion of changes…
ALM explained—Part 3: avoiding data loss
Introduction In part two of the new ALM Explained series, we discussed the best practices for testing and validating changes prior to deploying them to production models. However, we also know that testing protocols are not always followed, especially if the change is an emergency patch, and sometimes, the synchronization…
Setting production lists
*Content reviewed for accuracy June 2020 Making sure that production data lists are correctly marked within a model is a key step to setting up and using Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). This guide will provide a solution to how someone can make revisions to their model to allow for the tagging of a list as a…
Internal Project Tracker
I'm looking for a reference model to manage internal technology projects. From the cycle from the business case to the monitoring of project results. Any recommendations?
Product Enhancement Idea - ALM for Pages - Restriction on Source Model Selections
As a workspace administrator/Page builder/Tenant Administrator, I would strongly recommend ALM for Pages functionality to limit the selection of source models to ONLY model pairs with active and valid ALM synchronisation links. So that Anaplan eliminates the possibility of allowing users to set completely different models…
Compatibility of prod and Dev models
There is a development model DEV24 using which production model PROD24 was created. Now I have created PROD25 model from PROD24. If I create DEV25 using DEV24, would PROD25 and DEV25 be compatible with each other?
Ability to mask or sanitize all of the Production Data within a model
I would like to be able to easily mask all Production Data within a model. Currently, this involves a lot of manual effort. For example, replacing all names with fake names, and all numbers with fake numbers. Being able to do this is useful for a couple of different purposes: * If I need to have Anaplan Support take a copy…
ALM- How and why anaplan saves data in module after replacing list with new subset of same list?
My module contains 5 dimensions, and I am replacing one of the list subset by another list subset of the same list, I have tested it using ALM, but I would like to understand how anaplan ensures even after changing the list subset anaplan preserves input value in that module. I have updated list subset first in test…
Dev and PROD desynced following a backup restoration
Hello Everyone, I have taken over the Workspace Administrator responsibilities within the business and I am still learning about the basic model maintenance tasks. We've had a deployed PROD model synced with a DEV model to sync any structural changes and using revision tags. Recently, I have taken a copy of a PROD model…
Model Archives : Automation & Tenant administration
Hello ! It would be great to have automatic quick-wins regarding Model Archive Management ! ALM & Archives : When we need to move a large number of developments (or time management switch) into production, we always try to do a "Copy & Archive" first. However, this task is manual and potentially error-prone. It would be…
Cloudworks or Anaplan APIs: Automatic Archival Process
As a Model Builder or Integration developer, I would like to have the ability to have an automated process via Cloud works or ALM APIs to archive production models on a specific time cadence. By either exposing this functionality through ALM APIs or via Cloudworks, it will remove the admin work to archive models on a…
Is it possible to use the Anaplan API to copy and archive models?
I am interested in automating the process of duplicating models and archiving older versions for better version control. If anyone has experience or knowledge about this, your input would be greatly appreciated.
Automate Model management
As a workspace administrator, i need to be able to automate models managements tasks including : - copy / archive models - create copies of models for testing / uat purposes - archive models - deleting unused testing models Ideally these would be available through the alm api endpoint to allow different tasks to be…
Unable to Dynamically change Line Items names
Hi all! I tried to follow the steps of this article about dynamic line item names change but I can't get it to work, so I would like some help on why it's not working. For context: I am building a Price/Volume/Mix analysis which I gave the end user the ability to pick which versions they want to see the comparison, naming…
ALM explained—Part 1: compatibility
Introduction Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) has been available since late 2016, and it is used widely and successfully across the Anaplan-customer base. ALM is founded on certain fundamental rules and structures, which if followed, will ensure the integrity between development, test, and production models is…
Testing in Anaplan
Hi Friends, How do we do Unit Testing and System Integration Testing in Anaplan?
Control while syncing changes using ALM
At this moment, we (model builders) cannot control what changes should be synced with models in deployed mode. This is quite a challenge & honestly a concern especially when multiple model builders are working on a model and want to sync changes with testing models and poses sometimes a risk of unauthorised data exposures…
Ability to Select Workspace When Creating Model from Revision Tag
Current Functionality : When we create a model from Revision Tag it creates the model within the same workspace Idea : Ability to Select the Workspace and creating a model from revision tag in the selected workspace.
ALM enabled between 2 Dev models linking to the same Production Model
We have the usual setup of DEV → UAT → Prod copies of a model. We've took up a model optimisation activity which would involve deleting redudant models, changing dimensions, and changing logics. all aimed at reducing size and improving performance The bottle neck is that this activity will go on in parallel with the…
Enhance ALM to pick and choose objects to sync with production
Description of the enhancement required: Enhance ALM to pick and choose objects to sync with production An example of the enhancement: Currently, we are not able to move only few selected changes from development to production. The model sync will move all changes as on a revision tag. Requesting development team to…
Folders in Archive
It would be great to create folders to group archived models, and to have a more organized view of all archived models.
Multiple revision tags
Hi All, We can create multiple revision tags in the dev model for specific changes & while performing sync with PROD, these revision tags gets highlighted, however if I select the latest revision tag "add6" - all changes incl. changes specified under "add4" also gets updated. I believe revision tags works cumulatively, if…
Revision tags with multiple builders
My client is asking what is the best way to allow multiple model builders in Anaplan independently? In the current system there is no way to isolate what changes should be moved to other environments, i.e., revision tags are cumulative. How do you all handle this?
Is there any way out restore the history of QA model without breaking ALM?
Hi All, We have one case , where we need to restore the build & Data pushed in QA & Dev Model. Thinking of following Approach . Please advise if there is any gap or other way out : QA to be change the Deploy to Standard mode Restore the QA model from required History ID Post the successful of restore the QA will be get…

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