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There is a small, but growing, user base interesting in integrating with Anaplan using Talend. Previously, we shared (upon request) a sample workflow, with the launch of our latest API version, I've been working to update this demo. Today, I'm sharing a very simple workflow, which fetches a list of imports from your…

Attached is the Zoom recording from the New UX Session held on April 14, 2020.

Thank you for joining the Anaplan Live Enablement Session on New UX How-to and Best Practices. We hope you found the session useful and that you're able to apply what you learned to the dashboards that you're building. Attached is the Power Point that Monica presented.

Audience: Model Builders, Data Integration Specialist Summary: Hungry to know more? Anaplan Advanced Topics are deeper dives into specific areas of Anaplan. Data is everywhere, and our customers are eager to know more about how they can get data from their databases and into their models. This process is called data…

Simon Ritchie, Anaplan's Sr. Director of Product Management, answers popular questions about Anaplan's new user experience. Read the comments below the video to see the questions and answers submitted during our live Q&A session. Click here to watch the video. Note: The live Q&A session is now closed.

I am trying to use anaplan connector in Informatica cloud and it says the connection got created , But while using it in data synchronization it is not able to load imports and export definitions. APi major version is 1 and minor version is 3 as shown in Turotial videos on Anaplan site Basic authentication is used.

Hi, I would find it very helpful to see a series of screenshots from users and/or Anaplan based on the new UX. I think it would provide me with more of an opportunity to get a wider idea on the "art of the possible" and make the most of the new functionality. Even better if we could get access to a sample app as a…

Hi, Can people in one region can book a slot for other region for 299 model review? for examaple, india consultants can they book review in emea or americas?

In case you missed these from the home page: https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Blog/The-Truth-About-Sparsity-Part-1/ba-p/44493 https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Blog/The-Truth-About-Sparsity-Part-2/ba-p/44736 David

I have compiled this information as I have been working to connect to Anaplan via its API. I have chosen not to use Hyperconnect or Anaplan Connect. WHY you might ask? 1.) Hyperconnect: Our IT team will not support Hyper connect. 2.) Anaplan Connect: It is limited in scheduling and error outputs, and users have to know…

Over the past couple of months i have been on a mission to update our Anaplan API version from 1.3 to 2.0. **PLEASE NOTE that i am a novice when using certificates and I read a lot online in different forums to understand more about CA certificates and the different formats they can take.** I worked internally with the…

There are several cases in which it would be beneficial to allow users to trigger integration jobs, ad hoc, from within the Anaplan platform, but there is no native feature that allows this. Previously, I described a solution that simulates this functionality using only Anaplan Connect. This article presents a solution…

While setting up your Anaplan Connect integration, if you encounter authentication errors with your proxy it may be because it uses NTLM. Anaplan Connect does not support this out of the box, but you can enable it by following these steps: * Navigate to http://jcifs.samba.org/ * Download the latest JCIFS jar file (1.3.19…

Anaplan Security Engineering has performed a thorough investigation of the following vulnerability: Multiple SAML libraries may allow authentication bypass via incorrect XML canonicalization and DOM traversal. Anaplan Security Engineering confirms that its SAML implementation is not vulnerable to such attacks as described…

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). *…

I have a CLI developed in Go that automates the AWS devops platform. This app parses commands from a 'YML' and does build, deploy etc. I want to test this at a high level through some automation process, other than writing bash scripts. Is there a Framework or tools that I can use to automate this process? Thanks…

1. Introduction I have written this guide to hopefully help save some time as I encountered a few, less straight forward, issues when setting this up. There is a guide describing Anaplan Connect, so please regard this as a complement to that guide on how to set up a JDBC connection. I will use PostgreSQL as an example…

Hi, beginners question. I have a model with calendar type 4-5-4. I want to register actuals and forecast on a daily level for the first couple of weeks. I did check out the video on mixed calendars in this forum, but wondered wehter there was not a simple solution. I just want to record on the versions ( actual and…

Hello - looking for some answers to an issue we are seeing when saving using the Power Point Add-in. This does not happen all the time and we can not determine the cause. Once we have created our slide and done work to format the information in the proper charts and may have been able to save previously, we begin to get an…

Please note: this course has been retired. You can find related content in the following micro-lessons: Selective Access Roles and Selective Access Thank you! …………. Summary: This course dives deeper into selective access. Using selective access allows the model builder a greater amount of control over what individual users…

Summary: Understanding how to set up user roles and selective access is key in the model building process. Take a closer look at the controls available for this process. It provides an overview of both user roles and selective access before moving into more details around the user role feature. Course Objectives: By the…

Summary: Anaplan Administration enables you to streamline user access and model administration across your entire Anaplan footprint. This feature allows your customer-level administrators greater governance and control, giving them the ability to implement user changes and organize models across the enterprise. Course…

This course includes an overview of the DocuSign Integration functionality, what is needed to use the integration on a project, and a flow chart that walks through the process. It includes links to Anapedia for details on the steps in the process. Note that this course was developed with a web-based tool. Instead of…

For those of you in high scale environments, that wants to query & audit logs, you may find it usefull to export logs on a daily or weekly basis and then query them like a database. I do this with Apache Drill (https://drill.apache.org/) which allows me to download multiple history files to a directory, and then query…

Hi, If I use an Anaplan list or module as source in Informatica Cloud and one of texte properties or texte line items contain value with "line feed" I get an error. Is there a workaround to be able to use these lists or modules as Informatica Cloud source ? For module, I try to create a new line item with "line feed"…

A common problem with dummy timescales is that you cannot use the Previous() function to create a rolling balance. In this example I have exchange rates which are only provided on week days (on a dummy daily timescale of YYYYMMDD). I need a rolling balance to ensure that all days have an exchange rate. To produce the…

Hi All, I'm new to develop charts in Anaplan. I'm building the waterfall chart in anaplan with attached sample .csv data file. After building the waterfall chart it is missing few items i.e; TOTAL UTILITIES, TOTAL TELECOMS, TOTAL while plotting the chart, why it happens ? Please find the attached sample data and waterfall…

Hi, We currently are using a batch file which moves the loaded file to an archive folder when the script is done. The issue we are currently having is that the file is moved even if the process of loading is failed. To improve transparancy and tracking of the process we would like to change the script so that when the…

Hi everyone, A new video tutorial on how to select several list items in a dashbaord to see a combined result is available here. Hope this will be helpful, Egor.

Hi, Can someone help me setting the script variables for sending success/error logs via email? I tried the following according to the "Anaplan Connect Enhanced Automation" manual, but got errors that returned that it failed to find the gmail host. Error message: Could not conenct to smtp.gmail.com:25 Error: Could not…