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How I Built It: Period-driven variance reporting
Author: Nizar Cherkaoui is a Certified Master Anaplanner and EPM Manager and Solution Architect at VISEO. In this How I Built It video, I demonstrate how to design period-driven variance reporting in Anaplan when comparison logic is unknown upfront and flexibility is required. Instead of embedding period choices directly…
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Anaplan Polaris — The power of SUMs
This article is part of a series on Polaris best practices. Click here for more Community content or visit Anapedia for detailed technical guidance. The Polaris engine was built specifically to unlock the ability to build at natural dimensionality, which in many cases results in very high cell counts. One of the fastest…
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May 2026 platform releases and what’s next
Check out the latest Anaplan feature updates and enhancements in our May 2026 official release notes. There you'll find information on: User Experience New chart palette and grid theme Hierarchy chart filter Polaris Optimizer Use current solution option Security and tenant administration Enhancements to new user activation…
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How to approach a user story?
Author: Devrath Ahuja is a Certified Master Anaplanner with over six years of experience in implementing and delivering global Anaplan solutions. As someone starting out on their Anaplan journey, sometimes user stories and the build can feel overwhelming. Have you ever looked at a user story and wondered, “Where should I…
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Polaris Modeling and Optimization Challenge recap — event recording available!
We recently hosted a Community Q&A Challenge inviting members to test their skills in Polaris modeling and optimization. Our internal experts developed a series of challenges, featuring a module rebuild alongside optimization challenges focused on the optimization of high calculation effort and high calculation complexity.…
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Anaplan implementation: A game of snakes, ladders, and smart moves
Author: Pradip Kakade is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Sr. Principal Consultant of Enterprise Solutions at Genpact. Ask anyone who has been part of a Major Anaplan E2E implementation, and they will tell you: the journey is never a straight line. You build momentum, you feel confident, and then — snap. A hierarchy…
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Mastering dual accounting: A guide to managing IFRS & US GAAP in Anaplan FCR
Author: Grégory Ponce is a Senior Principal Product Manager at Anaplan. Managing two distinct accounting frameworks within a single model might sound like a headache, but with Anaplan Financial Consolidation and Reporting (FCR), it’s actually a smooth, streamlined process. By optimizing your audit dimensions, allocation…
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End user engagement & communication: Getting people to actually use Anaplan
Author: Mikhil Agarwal, 7x Certified Master Anaplanner and Delivery Manager at VISEO USA Inc., New York. Anaplan has a unique ability to bring teams together around a single, connected view of the business. When implemented well, it becomes more than a planning tool and becomes part of how decisions are made. However,…
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How to, plus an evaluation of ways, to do version comparison
Author: Kevin Beltz is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Principal Platform Adoption Specialist at Anaplan. Budget vs. Actuals. Last Year vs. This Year. What-if Scenario A vs. What-if Scenario B. As an Anaplan model builder, solution architect, or end-user, you know that comparing versions is a foundation of insightful…
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Cooking up a prototype — A recipe for success
Author: Tiffany Rice is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Senior Supply Chain Applications Builder/Developer at Anaplan. There are many different scenarios where leaders or project sponsors may request some “proof” before we make the “pudding”. This is common in instances where teams are exploring new functionality,…
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Use cases for Anaplan XL
Author: Audrey Neet is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Director at Tru Consulting. Anaplan XL (AXL) is one of the many products Anaplan offers. It extends how users can interact with Anaplan data beyond the UX, providing additional flexibility for targeted analysis and reporting. With AXL, users can design reports and…
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Anaplan introduces Snowflake Writeback in Pipelines
Author: Kira Wagner is a Product Owner at Anaplan. Snowflake Writeback is now available as a new addition to our integration capabilities. As the first of several planned writeback connectors, this feature is part of the Pipelines functionality in Anaplan Data Orchestrator. It allows you to move transformed and validated…
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Evolving business requirements over time: Retroactive changes and effective dating
Author: Marc Weinzimmer, Certified Master Anaplanner and Senior Project Manager at Alpha. The day a new Anaplan model goes live is always exciting. The model is clean, fast, and aligned with current business needs; admins are trained, users are engaged, and everything appears to be running smoothly. However, as time…
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How I Built It: Supply Chain Transport Optimizer in Anaplan
Author: Author: Soumya Bhattacharya is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Advisory Manager at Accenture. In this ‘How I Built It', I’ll show how Anaplan’s Optimizer can be used to demonstrate effective transportation and supply planning across a network of suppliers and distribution centers. By leveraging Anaplan’s modeling…
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How I Built It: Sensitivity analysis
Author: Casey Pham is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Director of FP&A Systems at Yext. In this ‘How I Built It’ video I'll show how I built a model and process to run a sensitivity analysis. Tens or hundreds of scenarios without overloading the model with too many scenario list items and manually updating driver inputs…
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On-Demand Calculation in Polaris
Author: Dave Smith is a Senior Product Manager at Anaplan. We are thrilled to announce the rollout of On-Demand Calculation in Polaris, a feature that significantly enhances performance and efficiency for our users. On-Demand Calculation is designed to compute values only when they are needed, leading to a more optimized…
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REP02 Size Margin Report Module in Lesson 8 Activity 8.8.3
Hello everyone, I am going through the L1 model builder course, and I am stuck at the activity 8.8.3 "Add Size Margin Report Module". I think I am doing the right things, but in certain combinations, I don't see values in my module. I am attaching all of the screenshots in this docx file. In fact, after creating this…
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Event recording available: Managing Hierarchies with Anaplan Data Orchestrator (ADO)
If you missed our spotlight event on Anaplan Community Experience: Managing Hierarchies with Anaplan Data Orchestrator (ADO), a recording is now available! Anaplan experts Stephen Day (Product Manager for ADO) and Jon Ferneau @JonFerneau (Data Integrations Expert, Operational Excellence Group) shared how organizations are…
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Cloudworks Status "Auto_Deactivated"
Have noticed that in the last couple of days a couple of Cloudworks integrations have got a status of "Auto_Deactivated". Couldn't find anything in Anapedia and wondered if anyone knew what this was about? Seems to be something about the schedule as deleted the existing one, added it back and is now running fine but is…
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Links no longer opening in a new web browser tab
Hi all, I have some links to external websites in my dashboards. They used to open in a new broswer tab but recently when I open them, they just open in the same tab and I lose my Anaplan dashboard and have to keep clicking back to get back to Anaplan. Is this a setting change and can I still get them to open in a new…
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REP02 SIZE MARGIN REPORT VALUES NOT APPEARING
Hello Everyone, The values for 'Revenue and Cost of sales' are not appearing in the REP02 Size Margin Report Module. Please find attached screenshots for your reference. Please help me.
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Avoiding CSV import errors: Three practical tips for Excel uploads across regions
Author: Ayesha Zoha, Certified Master Anaplanner and Manager at Kearney. One of the most common issues I have found during end user training or UAT is the difficulty in uploading data from an Excel csv. This usually arises because users need to upload small but detailed datasets from existing systems. Even with multiple…
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UX: Format numbers in charts
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: It would be great if we could format numbers (e.g. %, $, decimal places) within the charts card configuration. This is available in…
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Add Versions as a native option for a line item/property format.
Description of the enhancement required: Version as a format An example of the enhancement: When uploading a planning file (budget, Q1 forecast, Q2 forecast) from excel, a number of identifiers for my transactions are uploaded as text and later on in the transactions module turned into line items based on a list so I can…
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Share your Anaplan Workflow experience — Community Q&A Challenge
Get ready for our latest Community Q&A Challenge! This time, it's all about Anaplan Workflow. We will be exploring different strategies regarding the implementation, use, and benefits of Anaplan Workflow. This Community Challenge is all about sharing your real world experience. We want to spotlight the…
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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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Increase Process Status report retain logs for more than 21 days
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: Due to internal audit politics we need to increase the time limit to keep more data in the Process Status report. Unfortunately…
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Anaplan Level 3 Segment Module Value doesn't tie to Anaplan Official Training segment Module Values.
here in my Segment module my values don't match with the training modules, my TAR02 looks good though, Can anyone help me review and tell me what am i missing
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Make Integration admin role available for visitors & partners
It's currently not possible to assign an integration admin role to visitors and respectively also not to Anaplan Partners. This makes it a challenge when helping customers with Cloudworks or when just setting up a scheduled model-to-model import. It requires always someone at the customer capable to set-up the connections.…
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Access to workspace as an independent learner
I am struggling to find access to workspace as an independent learner, any advice?
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Simple but useful UX wins in 2026
Author: Manoj Upadhyay is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Anaplan Lead Consultant at Relanto. Hello Community! The true advantage for our end users is frictionless planning. When the UX is intuitive, users spend less time on figuring out the tool and more time driving business value. These enhancements are about creating…
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Model Builder Level 3 - The details pre-filled in the 'SYS02 Account Details' module are incorrect
Hi, When I download the L3 Sales Planning Model, the 'SYS02 Account Details' module is pre-filled with data, but it doesn't match with the data in the Accounts csv file/Hub/A2 List*. [NB : *the csv file is not necessary in Level 3 as data can be imported from the Data Hub built in level 2. However, the data in the data Hub…
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Automated backup of models
Enhancement request: ability for customer to automatically schedule model backups. Very common issue where data is lost either from changing Prod List to Non-Prod or vice versa or developer A changes formulas that effect Prod, etc. A one time setup preserves data and reduces reliance on humans to backup. The lower the…
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Scheduled Cloudworks integrations that fail Should have RE-ACTIVATE option
Scheduled Cloudworks integration that fail move to AUTO_DEACTIVATED status. When this happens there's no other option that re-creating the integration from scratch, which results in unnecessary work. Depending on the user, this could have a wider application impact while the Admin integration will need to re-create the…
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Getting to Know You
Welcome to the learning cohort! We're so excited to have you here! As it's day 1 and there are a LOT of us, let's take a moment to get to know one another. The assignment is simple: Tell us about you. Who are you? Do you have a photo? Where do you live? What do you like? Are you in school? Do you have any pets? Can we see…
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Level 2 Sprint 2 Exam
I passed my Level 2 Sprint 2 exam but I got 2 questions wrong that I really would like to know why I got them wrong. I went back and looked at the videos and articles suggested but I still got the questions wrong. Who do I go to in order to get clarification?
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API for Model Builder
Hello, Since Anaplan is missing a MCP server to interact with an agent, I would like to know if there are official APIs available for model creation and modification, or for Model import where the Model definition, as lists, modules, line items, formulas, etc can be adjust all together at once (different from Model sync).…
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Talent Builder Graduate Mini Resume - Sarthak Kajle
Name: Sarthak Kajle Location: Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Certification: Anaplan Certified Model Builder (Level 1 & Level 2) Educational Background: MMS (Finance) BAF (Accounting & Finance) Profile Summary: Business Analyst with 4 years of experience in financial reporting and analytics using SQL, Tableau, and Excel.…
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Certificate expired
We didnt rotate certificate and now we cannot login , what the approach we need to take to rotate ce
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Level 2 Model Building: Sprint 3 V1 :3.3.5 Activity: Create Inventory Ordering
Hi everyone, I’m currently working on the TRA01 Shipping Metrics by Week task. My import action completes successfully but all records are ignored (0 updated, 424 ignored). Before troubleshooting further, could someone confirm whether this sprint expects the module to be populated via import or by using formulas? I want to…
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CloudWorks—This is how we use it, Part 4: Using CloudWorks APIs with AWS Lambda
In Part 3, we described the procedure for using CloudWorks APIs. But the main question would be, how can we use them? Indeed, we can find that having a dedicated screen in Anaplan itself is already a major step forward. And it surely addresses most of the future needs. Nevertheless, in our strive to open our platform as…
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From access control to governance: Turning UAM into a strategic platform
Author: Artem Shchaulov is a Senior Anaplan Consultant and Certified Master Anaplanner with 8+ years' experience implementing global EPM solutions. In the first two articles, we covered why access management breaks at enterprise scale and how to build a User Access Management (UAM) model that reliably assigns permissions…
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Loss of Functionality in UX
The newest UX update took away the ability to toggle straight to "Open this in another tab" out of the left window menu. I used to be able to right click "Journals" for example and choose open in another tab and that is now gone. I'm hoping that there is a plan to restore this functionality.
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【2026年5月】プラットフォームアップデート
User Experienceの機能強化 ・新しいチャート パレットとグリッド テーマ階層チャート フィルター Polarisにおける集計関数の追加 ・新たに4つの集計関数を追加 Optimizerの機能追加 ・Use current solution オプション Forecaster ・新機能パネル ・ユーザー フィードバック コレクター 一括削除 ・Anaplan への未加工の係数とインターセプトの送信 ・バックテスト データ書き込みスイッチ セキュリティとテナント管理 ・新規ユーザー アクティベーション メールの強化
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Polaris Modeling and Optimization — Community Q&A Challenge
Think you’ve mastered the Polaris calculation engine? It's time to put your skills to the test! For our next Community Challenge, we're moving into hands-on problem-solving. We have put together several real-world modeling and optimization problems that will require you to apply your Anaplan expertise. This is your chance…
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February 2026 platform releases and what’s next
Check out the latest Anaplan feature updates and enhancements in our February 2026 official release notes. There you'll find information on: User Experience Board Insights Panel Management Reporting on mobile Custom action buttons on mobile Modeling experience Four digit calendar Forecaster Holiday calendars UX pages…