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Discussion List
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Anaplan FCR - Ability to filter on import-map warnings within the mapping editor
In the Anaplan FCR map editor, users should be notified when there are validation warnings of already existing entries within a configured map they're attempting to open. More importantly, once the editor is opened, users should have the ability to filter on all rows with warnings. As an additional thought, users should…
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Tell us what your teammates need from your dashboards
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…
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Enhanced Grid interactions in Anaplan’s UX: What’s new in 2026
Authors: Steve Prendergast is a Director, Product Management at Anaplan and Gareth Riley (@GarethR) is a Product Manager at Anaplan. Grids are where the real work happens in Anaplan. Using grids, a planner can drill into a region's forecast, where finance reviews headcount by cost center, where a demo suddenly needs "just…
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Inform the user when its password needs to be changed
Dear all, Some times your system refuses us to log in. It seems it is because the password is no longer valid and has to be renewed. However absolutely no information is given to the user. Therefore he/she tries to connect again and again, until he/she thinks "oh, that should be the password that has expired". This is…
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Dependent Dropdowns on UX Context Selectors
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…
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MFP - Unable to View the LRP Plan
Hello All, The modules in the MFP model (DAT010 - Retail Based Historical Actuals, DAT020, DAT030, DAT040, DAT050, and DAT060) are already available, and the data for the different plans has been loaded. However, when I open Page 5000 - Seed Long Range LRP and select Seed Selection = LY, the following metrics are not being…
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Does Anaplan XL offer a free trial?
Hi team, I’m interested in exploring Anaplan XL and would like to know whether a free trial or trial version is available for users to evaluate its features and functionality. If available, could you please share the process or requirements to access the trial? Thanks in advance!
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Conditional Formatting on Bar Charts
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
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Pivoting line items to the context selector in UX is exposing all line items from the backend module
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.
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FCR - Consolidation rules : change account manually
Hello, On FCR, before the last release around 22 september, in the consolidation rule we could change account and movement manually. Now if there are no account fill, we can manually fill one but if an account is already fill we can't. We have to use the magnifying glass and select the account. It is a huge waste of time.…
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Collapse / Expand Hierarchy Functionality in Modules and UX Grids
In current standard grid modules and UX Grids you can't Collapse & Expand hierarchies of Lists/Line Items/Sublist like you can do in Excel (see below). Considering that sometimes hierarchies can be huge or you want to Collapse one part but Expand another - it would be good to have such functionality
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Latest enhancements in Anaplan Workflow
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…
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Ability to auto-name PDF based on context when exporting from Management Reporting
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…
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Stacked Column Graph
I would like to reproduce the above stacked column graph in Anaplan, but can't get the labels on the bottom axis to appear in the same way. The best I have achieved is this (I have limited the data selection to make the issue more obvious). I have two columns for each month, but it doesn't show which is forecast and which…
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Total positions for nested dimensions
Please add option to change Total positions order on rows/columns when nested dimensions are applied. Currently it can only be applied towards single dimension. When adding at lease two dimension, order becomes "Before" by default and the following error is returned when trying: "Cannot group totals on a nested axisSetting…
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Expand/collapse for hierarchies on columns and line items
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…
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Conditionally Show/Hide elements of a page based on line item
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 /…
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Anaplan login forcing me to home page.
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…
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Intermittent Anaplan Interface Error Message
Hello, Former Anaplan Support member here. I was just about to create a Support Ticket for this intermittent error message, I wanted to see if there were others who have run into this message before? 1) I am checking to see if other users are facing this issue. 2) This is not model or workspace specific. I have already…
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What is the best way to use cross join for two hierarchies going to lowest descendants
If we go down lowest descendants for 2 hierarchies something like this {Descendants([Planning Org].[Planning Org].[ALL].[AllMember],255,LEAVES)} then the queries timeout what is the best way to use lowest decendants so it doesnt scan the whole hierarchy
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Conditional Formatting on Booleans
As a model Builder I would like to use Booleans as a Basis for Conditional formatting. For example. I have a Boolean/ Checkbox which indicates that not all fields in a new Item/ setting has been filled. I would like to be able to use that boolean directly instead of reverting to a number. The advantage would be to save on…
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Pop-up notification about upcoming timeout
Would be nice to have a notification about timeout due to long inactivity in both NUX and Classic. Good addition will be to have a button to be able to reset the timeout countdown. This way end users and model builders will be able to save there progress and won't have to re-open every tab/page they had on their screen.
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Multi-Cell Selection for Calculation Summary
Multi-Cell Selection for Calculation Summary When selecting two or more cells in Anaplan, a calculation menu appears in the bottom-right corner displaying useful statistics such as Count, Min, Max, Average, and Sum. This is a helpful functionality for quickly analyzing selected values. However, the current functionality is…
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FCR Security profile access based on dimension property
In order to optimise the way profile acess is granted, especially on huge groups with several reportings based on different reponsability scopes, having the possibility to grant acess dynamically to a group of entity based on a property would be a significant gain. As an example on entities, if you want to grant acess to…
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FCR - Entity alternated hierarchy use
Currently the entity alternate hierachies are not used as they should. Several issues are encountered when using those : Validation reports and Intercompanymatching report can not be filtered using this alternate hierarchy. Whereas it is only a matter of what members you want to see. When using the alternate hierarchy on…
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Sleek reports on small screens: how to configure management reporting on mobile
Author: Amrita Gopalakrishnan is a Product Manager at Anaplan. With the February 2026 release of Management Reporting on mobile, Anaplan page builders can now deliver beautiful, structured report pages directly to smartphones and tablets. Crucially, this requires zero additional mobile-specific page configurations. Any…
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allow users in model view to see where other users are in the model
when multiple users open a sharepoint file, sharepoint has avatars at the top right showing: who's in the file/location where in the file they are and whether they are making changes, or just have it open it looks something like this: anaplan should also have this function. when multiple model builders are working thru the…
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Expand and collapse items in a grid
As an mobile builder and as an end-user I want to expand and collapse hierarchy rollups and line item summaries So that I can more easily consume grid data.
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Support for Dual-Axis Charts in Anaplan UX
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…
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Hide Column Headings for Grid Cards on Board Pages
Would be great to be able to hide column headings on board pages - sometimes need to have two tables that have the same line items / time periods but I don't want to waste page space on duplicating them. Or the very least be able to "shrink" the top row like you can for columns.
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