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Planning, pie, and people: What I’m thankful for in the Anaplan Community
Author: Mikhil Agarwal, Certified Master Anaplanner and Delivery Manager at VISEO USA Inc. As we dive into the holiday season, a time for family, reflection, and maybe just one more slice of pie, I’ve found myself thinking about a different kind of table I sit at throughout the year. Not the one in the dining room, but the…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: 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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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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Pagination in Management Reports Without splitting Parent Blocks
Hi I would like to set up pagination in management reports by assigning a page number to a list item and its parent but I also want to be able to keep a block of parent and list items together and not split over two pages. E.g. Parent 1 - 1 Child 1 - 2 Child 2 - 3 Parent 2 - 4 Child 3 - 5 Child 4 - 6 Child 5 - 7…
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Bulk Copy Action for Production Lists
This idea relates to the Bulk Copy action enhancement released in a platform update earlier this month (Nov 6 2021 release). (Thank you by the way for that enhancement!) We would like the ability to execute the Bulk Copy action for Production Lists. (Currently, the action is limited to only non-Production Lists.) Bulk Copy…
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Turn off Show Comments Summary Panel?
Is there a way to turn this off? What is the point of allowing all users who have access to a page to see all Comments? Unless I am missing something, this Show Comments Summary Panel is not security access dependent. All users who have access to the page can see the comment. This fact is even confirmed via the "Who can…
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Function Movingsum
I try a movingsum function but i get always the next message This is the function that i try And the location that i try to aggregate Why do i get this message the module has a day scale?
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Removal of space for bespoke prefix/suffix / currency code
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: Applying things like bps is great but would be great to not have the space between number and item. For pre-defined ones such as %…
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Cloudworks Integration Flows in UX
At the moment, we are able to add Cloudworks Processes to the dashboards and the addition is great. Could we do the same with the Integration Flows? I see multiple benefits from this for several customers and I do not think that the implementation would be too different from what is currently in there. Is this currently in…
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Workarounds for coercing timescales in Polaris?
Hi, all. Polaris formulas don't coerce timescales like classic does and I'm looking for a workaround. I want to build a UX time selector like I have in my classic models: The way it works in classic is like this: The "Filter" line item looks at the month formatted, quarter formatted, and year formatted boolean line items…
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Dynamic Display by Language Selection
Problem Statement Ever wonder how to display your data in a different language format in Anaplan or simply just want to cater to language display options based on user selection? Step-by-step guide We need all the lists that require translation to be defined and it is best to have modules with definitions of each language…
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[Part 2] Enhancing Anaplan Audit Log Data Extraction with a Streamlined Python Solution
The Anaplan Audit History project, consisting of several Python modules and a configuration file, works synergistically to streamline the process of fetching, formatting, and loading Anaplan audit log data into a preconfigured Anaplan Model. The project leverages the Anaplan REST API, the Python Pandas library for…
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Data Integration to Fluence workspace
Hello Everyone, I am seeking guidance on how I could create a workflow process in Fluence consolidation workspace, using the ADO import task. Does anybody know what kind of information I need to fill in these fields? I have watched the ADO training but only explains the data transformation and integration within Anaplan…
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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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Selective Access Challenge: Summarizing L3 Inputs at L1 Level Without Losing Granular Access
Hi Community, I’m working with a hierarchical list structure in Anaplan: L1 Region (e.g., Asia, Europe) L2 Country (e.g., India, Pakistan) L3 Local Input (e.g., Mumbai, Lahore, Islamabad) Users are given selective access only at the L3 level (specific cities like Mumbai, Lahore, etc.) so they can input data at those…
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Are there any plans to support actions to rename or delete native Versions?
If anyone is aware of idea exchange ideas that are currently being evaluated by the product team, if you don't mind linking them here, would love to give them an upvote. Thanks!
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Formula to pull dates from History log - Cell Updates
Hi! I would like to be able to pull information about the date/time when a cell is update. Example: If I tick a Boolean field called Final Position to mark a deal as ready to be contracted, I'd like to have an associated Final Position Date automatically fill in with the date that this cell for the deal was ticked
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What are the steps for building a model?
I got this question for level 1 exam. I went for the following order: Step 1. Build centralized dimensions in the model (time, version, lists) Step 2. Build Modules in the model Step 3. Import data into modules Step 4. Create User Experience pages or classic dashboards Step 5. Set user access and permissions for the model…
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Management report should support more dynamic layouts (e.g. filtering on columns to display)
Below is an issue which is stopping me from using Management Report (UX Page type = Report). The issue is that once a card is published to the page: * Dynamic columns are not respected if based on a filter there should be more columns than initially published, it won’t show * Dynamic columns are not respected if based on a…
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Steps for building a model
Can anyone help me understand why the following order of the steps is wrong? I have tried two attempts but still can't get it right!!! Step 1. Build centralized dimensions in the model (time, version, lists) Step 2. Build Modules in the model Step 3. Build centralized Import data into modules Step 4. Create User Experience…
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Anaplan XL Reporting: Effective use cases and practical recommendations
Anaplan XL Reporting (AXL) is a powerful solution bridging the robust planning capabilities of the Anaplan platform with the familiar flexibility of Microsoft Excel. It allows you to interact with your Anaplan data dynamically, right from your desktop. To use its power effectively, it's important to understand how to use…
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End user documentation made easy with Anaplan
Author: Hillary Sich is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Senior Manager at Accenture. Do you actually enjoy creating end user documentation for the models we build? Are you creating end user documentation as a Word document with multiple screen shots per page? If so, then this article is NOT for you! Why not leverage…
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ERROR 16020 |-- Anaplan API: Invalid key path
Hello everyone, We are trying to use Anaplan Connect in order to push data from a dwh to Anaplan Data Hub. To do so, we need an authentication by token. We can't make it work, we receive the following error: ERROR 16020 |-- Anaplan API: Invalid key path Any suggestions? Thank you all in advance for the help! Michele
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Security log
Fluence consolidation is missing a security log that would enable to track changes made to application security. With this log missing, we have internal controls deficiencies. Please add a system log similar to the journal entry log that would track who made what changes to the security and when.
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Format Column Alignment
It would be amazing if we could align data in table columns to left, right or center. When you have two columns next to each other and one is text and the other is number then they look like they run together due to the alignment of the data format. Also, it just doesn't look very nice.
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Issue with Anaplan tab in Salesforce
I have installed the Anaplan app in Salesforce, but have been receiving an error. In the Anaplan part it asks for you to contact support, but does not provide any details into how to do this, just raising a ticket in the portal? WOuld be great to have more information.…
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Save incomplete changes when synchronizing in ALM
Imagine this scenario: You are in the middle of making changes in your development model and have been doing so for the last few weeks. The changes are not complete and are not ready to synchronize. However, you just received a request for an urgent fix from the user community that is critical for the forthcoming monthly…
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ADO Module Saved View does not exist Error
Hi, I’m experiencing a strange issue in ADO that I can’t seem to resolve. Before reaching out to Anaplan Support, I thought I would check with the community for advice. I’m trying to extract some list properties for an ADO mapping from a Polaris model/module. However, no matter what I do, I keep encountering the same error…
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Model Builder training Level 2 -
Good afternoon Currently processing Model Builder level 2 training. I am unable to check my work as examples are not displayed in the training module (same for all, not only for the picture displayed below) Can you please let me know where I can find the examples? Thank you.
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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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Building a Center of Excellence
Overview Standing up a Center of Excellence is complex. There are many decisions to be made. Here are some of the materials to help get a basic understanding of building a CoE that are part of our CoE Success Accelerator Workshop. What is a Success Accelerator Workshop? Anaplan offers targeted workshops, Success…
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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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Custom Calendar Scheduling for Workflow
Currently Templates can only be run on a certain day of the week or selected date of the month. It would be great if it can have more options to trigger workflows