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Exciting news: Anaplan will soon connect to Amazon Redshift
Author: Kira Wagner is a Product Owner at Anaplan. We're thrilled to announce that Anaplan is planning to expand our integration capabilities with the launch of our new Amazon Redshift connector. This addition will empower your organization to seamlessly bridge your cloud data warehouse with Anaplan's powerful planning…
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Combined Grids is now live!
Author: Calvin Magondo is the Product Manager, Enterprise Experience at Anaplan. Combined Grids and multi-module reporting We are excited to announce the much anticipated enhancement to the Anaplan User Experience (UX): Combined Grids. This powerful new feature and platform capability will address one of the most common…
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Unlocking AI's potential: How Anaplan's new data layer ends planning chaos
Author: Miki Sato is a Product Manager, Product Management Team (Data Management) at Anaplan. Your data is now harmonized, normalized, and ready for the AI era. 1. The scale AI needs Are you ready to truly leverage AI, but constantly hit a wall because of data chaos? In today's fast-paced environment, planning needs to be…
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Less granular, more accurate: The "granularity = responsibility" principle in FP&A
Author: Taichi Amaya, Certified Master Anaplanner, and Financial Planning and Analysis Specialist at Pasona Group, Inc. Reading time: approximately 5-6 minutes. "We need more detail in our forecasts. Let's have each sales rep submit their numbers individually — that way, we'll be more accurate." Sounds reasonable, right?…
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Introducing Anaplan API Python SDK
Author: Vinzenz Klass is a Senior Data Engineer at valantic. Hey everyone, I wanted to share the Anaplan Python SDK with you. It's a Python Library that wraps all Anaplan APIs and makes it easier to interact with Anaplan programmatically. It is mostly designed with Data Integration Scenarios in mind, but it does support…
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Accessible by design: Our new accommodations for certification exams
Taking a proctored exam can be intimidating, even for the most seasoned professionals. While certification validates a learner’s skills and expertise, the exam environment itself can sometimes pose unnecessary barriers. Our goal is to test your ability, not your endurance. That’s why we’ve made significant updates to make…
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October 2025 platform releases and what’s next
Check out the latest Anaplan feature updates and enhancements in our October 2025 official release notes. The information below offers supplemental information to that post. Planning experience Combined Grids This new capability gives page builders the ability to combine multiple modules into a single, unified grid on a UX…
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How I Built It: Set up timestamps leveraging ADO & Workflow
Author: Jeffrey Glazner is a Manager, FP&A Systems at ResMed. Hello folks! I’m happy to share my ‘How I Built It’ tutorial with you all. This video shows a simple way to set up timestamps in Anaplan leveraging Anaplan Data Orchestrator (ADO) and Workflow, without the need for any additional scripting. While not…
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How I Built It: Chess in Anaplan
Author: Waleed Hakim is a Sr. Anaplan consultant. Hi everyone! I’m Waleed — a Senior Consultant working with enterprise clients to transform their planning processes through Anaplan. I've been in the Anaplan ecosystem for just under four years now, and while most of my time is spent solving complex business problems, I’ve…
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Ready for departure? What to do if your only Anaplanner is leaving!
Author: Clarissa Hassfurder is a Certified Master Anaplanner and CEO at Double10 Consulting. In many cases, when a team member departs a company, there is an ability to complete hand off with one or multiple team members. But what if your Center of Excellence (CoE) is a team of one? What if there are no other people with…
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Mastering Anaplan Workflow: Tips and learnings from real-world experience
Author: Shivankur Sharma is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Principal Architect at PM Square. Anaplan has long been a leader in the connected planning space, and with the introduction of Workflow functionality, it’s taken a major step toward streamlining collaboration and task accountability. If you’re a model builder,…
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Tips for onboarding junior model builders
Author: Evgeny Seledkov is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Sr. Consultant at Keyrus. Hello, I’m Evgeny, and I’ve been part of the Anaplan community for nearly ten years. Over the years, I’ve taken quite a journey — seeing this world from both sides: as part of a customer Center of Excellence, where I helped stakeholders…
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Anaplan Workflow in action: Focused demo series
Author: Dave Waller, Principal Product Manager at Anaplan. Discover how Anaplan Workflow streamlines and simplifies complex approval processes with our set of short demo videos. Each video highlights a real-world use case — budget submission, capex submission, headcount allocation, and compensation plans — showing how…
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UX best practices for building impactful dashboards in Anaplan: Part 1
Author: Arjun Gandhi, Certified Master Anaplanner with over a decade of experience leading enterprise Anaplan implementations across industries. ———- “If your dashboard doesn’t tell users what to do within 10 seconds, it’s already failed.” 🧭 Introduction: Why UX design in Anaplan matters Anaplan’s UX is more than just the…
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Managing Anaplan maintenance windows: A comprehensive guide for enterprise planning teams
Author: James Cannon is a Certified Master Anaplaner, Solution Architect, and Senior Manager at Ernst & Young. In any enterprise Anaplan implementation, regular maintenance windows are essential for model stability, performance optimization, and ongoing business value. However, without proper structure, communication, and…
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Anaplan Polaris – Getting Started
Are you a seasoned Anaplanner ready to harness the power of Polaris? You’re in the right place. Polaris, Anaplan’s next-generation calculation engine, is designed for fast, highly dimensioned calculation at scale. While the model building experience remains fundamentally similar to Classic, Polaris introduces key…
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Working with Opening / Closing Balances and 'fake time'
We have an Anaplan model that uses "Fake Time" - that is a time dimension specifically constructed for the application and not one found native to Anaplan. For this reason the Opening / Closing Balance summaries don't work. We would like to be able to show the opening and closing balance at the beginning end of each weekly…
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Share your favorite 2025 Anaplan features — November Community Challenge
As 2025 comes to a close, we're wrapping up the year with our final Community Challenge — and we want your input! Share your experiences with the Anaplan features that made a real difference in your work this year, and hear other Community member perspectives. Question for the Community Challenge: What were your favorite…
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L3 Sprint 1 : Sales Planning
Hello everyone, I created a new model to display the Sales Planning using the PY Revenue from DAT02 Revenue and the PY Actual Revenue from TAR02 Account Review, applying the appropriate LOOKUPs and using SYS99 to retrieve the % of Account Sales Target. However, when I compare the results of my build with the results shown…
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Quarter to Monthly
I have 3 modules. First module has list with yearly values. second module has line items that convert the yearly data to quarterly. I want to convert quarterly data monthly in third module. The quarterly module has override capabilities so if user select set annual to 0, then the total for that year will be 0. If user…
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Recording available: Tackling frequently missed certification exam topics
Thank you to those who attended our recent event. If you missed it or would like to re-watch, here is the recording and a few resources to help with your recertifications! Don't wait to get the process started — you'll be glad you took the time to do it now before the holidays. Recording…
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How I Built It: User Access Management
Author: Kevin Dale Bandelaria is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Solutions Delivery Head at OmniQuest, Inc. Solution overview The User Management process in Anaplan was developed to simplify how administrators set up and maintain model roles and selective access settings for users. Traditionally, configuring access in…
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YTG, YTD Summary in Polaris
Hi All, Wanted to quickly check if the YTG, YTD summaries are not enabled for Polaris model yet unlike the Classic model. Thank you, Harshitha
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Combined grids - separate filters
It would be really useful to be able to have a separate filter for each section of a combined grid. I have a grid where we want to see year 1 by month (Grid 1) and year 2 and 3 by year (Grid 2) and then a total for all three years. I can set up a set of time filters that gives me this result so no issue there. The…
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Round Function
It would be great when using the Number of Decimal Places in the Round function if Anaplan rounded to the number of decimal places asked and it stayed rounded when going up the hierarchy. The summary is set to "SUM". For example, I have five children members with a formula ROUND(Value $ * value %, 2) function. Each of the…
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2.4.11.1 Create Product Family Manager Role
I am really struck in this lession and while doing this lession im having problem for giving the access to the particular user in the users , ,y doubt is am i the only one who cant see the users in users tab or else i dont know, because of this one step i am unable to complete the " L2 Model Building - Conclusion "…
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Reset index of Anaplan List using API
Hi, I want to reset the index of a list using API, not sure how to go about it. I am very new to APIs, I went through Anaplan API docs, however, if someone can help me with the step by step process, or any resources it will be very much appreciated. Thanks
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Time Period Formatted line items dependency on Time Range
Currently dropdown for time period formatted line items shows all time periods for Model Calendar. There should be an option to make them dependent on Time range applicable to that particular Module/Line Item. For Example: If Model has 5 years, a Month formatted line item will show all 60 months in dropdown even if that…
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Notification Action Does Not Retain Line Breaks
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: We've pre-configured a Notification Action to allow specific end-users to be able to send an email to an Admin. That Notification is…
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FCR Feature Enhancement: Improve error message for import data
Description of use case It happens, when importing csv files, that the import fails and a red box appears stating "An unexpected error occured". See attached screen shot. It happens for a workflow with the "file import' task. When does this message appear? So far, we are aware that this message appears in case: no amount…
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Retrieving Anaplan’s Optimizer logs step-by-step
Getting Optimier logs helps to understand how to tweak the model to speed up the solving time. Workspace administrators can download the Anaplan Optimizer log via an API. Links: - Optimizer logs for debugging - https://anaplan.docs.apiary.io/#/reference/logging Users can use Postman or perform this action directly in the…
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Cell count is too large error
Not seeing existing posts about this error. How to resolve this?
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Excel plugin issue with SSO
Has anyone gotten an error like this when you have SSO and you are trying to use the Excel plug in? We have some users that get the screen below but some don't. We have checked that all users have the same version of Excel. Weird part about the screen below is it actually says the connection was successful.
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Reset index of Anaplan List
Hi All, I want to reset the index of a list using API, not sure how to go about it. I am very new to APIs, I went through Anaplan API docs, however, if someone can help me with the step by step process, or any resources it will be very much appreciated. Thanks
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Multiple clustered & stacked columns in the combination chart
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: We are trying to visualize the various categories of our supply and demand across time in one combination chart through stacked…
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Azure SQL Connection, database name with Hyphens in Data Orchestrator
I am attempting to connect to an azure SQL database vis at the MSSQL connector in data orchestrator but am having issues and I believe it is due to hyphens in database name (which is a fairly standard naming convention I will note!) Example below (fake credentials) - has anyone else encountered similar and is there a way…
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Why the return value is False?
Hi experts: I put all the values into the formula, I think it should return TRUE, not FALSE, but why it return me FALSE? Maybe I missed something here ? Thank you for the help!
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Workaround for Formula & Closing Balance summary methods together in Polaris
Hello folks, Does anyone know how to work around the Polaris limitation of using the Formula or Ratio summary method alongside the Closing Balance within the same line item? I have a Business Unit list where the total (All BUs) must display the Corporate (1 of 20 leaf items under All BUs total) number of Unique Customers.…
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Anaplan Japan Best Practice資料共有
皆さん、こんにちは Professional Serviceの大橋です。 この度、Anaplan JapanのBest Practiceサイトをリリースしました。 これまで、プロジェクトの中でユーザ企業様、パートナー様に"Anaplan導入"に関する様々な資料をご提供してきましたが、必要な時にみなさまが自らダウンロードできる形で公開したいと思います。 Anaplan Japan Best Practice サイト https://anaplan.sharepoint.com/sites/Team-AnaplanJapanBestPractice/SitePages/CollabHome.aspx サイトの特徴…
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How to navigate a list index reset while preserving your planning data
Author: Evan Groetch is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Business Intelligence Manager at Fresenius Medical Care. Seeing that your list import has failed due to the index hitting its maximum value can be a frustrating experience. Cursory research on Anapedia will show you there is a “Reset” button at the bottom of the…
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Conditional formatting for multiple line items
We should be able to apply conditional on multiple line items at once. This will save page builders time in applying conditional formatting on multiples line items.
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Model Map - Exporting Functionality
While the Model Map functionality already exists in Anaplan, it becomes difficult to navigate when working with large models. I would like to see enhanced support for full export capabilities of the model schema (DISCO). This would greatly streamline documentation efforts and save time when capturing model status across…
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Grouping Modules or Module Folders
We got several hundred of modules. I think it could be usefull if modules can get sorted/filtered by (dynamic) groups or even in folders in the modules overview. Maybe the Data Tags could used with this. //GP
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Enable Selective Access in Manual Filtering data
Selective Access for list used as a format of line item works properly when given line item is published on dashboard or page. Unfotunatly if user wants to filter data manually, he/she is able to see all items from the list. This behaviour was observed on dashboards and in NUX as well. This issue is most troublesome for a…
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Calculating levels in a hierarchy for dashboard filtering
Summary This article describes the technique to dynamically filter specific levels of a hierarchy on a dashboard, and provides a method to select and visualize hierarchies on a dashboard. Details This article explains how to configure the calculation of the level of a list in a hierarchy in order to apply specific…
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Is there any way to block the writeback functionality for some users?
I have this problem: I'm creating an AXL report, which will be distributed across members of a department. I need to know if is possible to block the writeback functionality for all members except the owner of the file to avoid accidental updates of data in Anaplan's modules. Thanks!