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Reduce blocking on development models
Description of the enhancement required: Currently we have to wait until all changes are finished and thus big developments are blocking some minor tweaks which cannot be imported. Sometimes a few developers are working in the same file at the same time on different changes. Branching would make our job a lot easier as…
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Ability to update user role access/access to existing model features in a deployed model
Description of the enhancement required: Ability to edit Users --> Roles->Versions in a deployed model. A story for why you want the enhancement: Currently during development cycles, using ALM forces you to treat user updates and editing the timescale for a specific version as a bugfix. This mean users have to wait for a…
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[ALM] Error dialog should be more specific
[ALM] Error dialog should be more specific when model cannot be restored to a serial due to it being before a sync Description of the enhancement: Attempting to restore a model to a previous serial which was prior to a sync will fail. This is not recorded in the core logs - it would be good to log in the core logs that…
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What is Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)?
It is important to understand what Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) enables clients to do within Anaplan. In short, ALM enables clients to effectively manage the development, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance of applications in Anaplan. With ALM, it is possible to introduce changes without disrupting…
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End users amending lists via dashboards vs ALM
Hi everyone, I wonder if anyone could share some insight/experiences re: the implementation of dashboards allowing users to manipulate numbered lists. eg add/remove items from a list A number of dashboards have been created to prodive greater flexibility to some super-users (not workspace administrators). We also use ALM…
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Large Comparison Report
I recently did a model promotion and downloaded the comparison report. The comparison report ended up being over 1GB in size - prior to this, the largest I've seen is 748KB (we save all our comparison reports for audit purposes). We did not have an exceptionally large number of changes go in this time (there were 1079…
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Source Models & IDS
Hi, Can you please help me understand the use case of Source Models. Also How does IDS play a role in it? Let's say I have imported into List from WS1 Model 1 to WS2 Model 2. Now under Source Models Command an action will be created. Under what scenarios can we change this mapping in Source Model Command. And How does that…
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Quick reference guide for ALM
Quick reference guide on check points to be considered before going ahead with Application Life Cycle (ALM) * Answer* Frequency of Sync up or Releases - Get an alignment with business users, model builders, PMO & IT team on how frequently the changes in DEV will be synched to PRD (Ex: Every week on Friday at 5pm PST). *…
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ALM and release syncing
Hi users. This question was asked of me in a personal message. I thought it might be something others would have questions about so I am reposting it here for everyone to see and discuss! -Bob I am working for Anaplan implementation project as project manager. We are adopting the Agile implementation, and as many other…
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Re: Release Management
Hi Andrew, Our Anaplan FP7A project went live recently and we are using ALM for change management. Below are some pointers which might help: 1) Restrict workspace admin assess to very few (1 each for each function) 2) Users need to submit story for any new enhancement or change 3) Have bi-weekly release cycle 4) Follow…