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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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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 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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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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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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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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Anaplan with IT Technology Business Management and portfolio management
With LeanIX as the core Enterprise Architecture platform for managing and rationalizing the IT application and technology portfolio, and with the out-of-the-box Technology Business Management (TBM) integration to tools such as Apptio enabling granular IT FinOps and cost management, most IT financial management capabilities…
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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…
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L3 Sprint 2, User Story 3.3 Q1 Quarter Allocation
Hi Community, It appears that values shown here for Q1 are assuming 29 days in Feb 25, when there are actually only 28. My values tie out for all Quarter values and all months shown from Apr 25 forward, and it's not possible for only a single quarter/finite range of months to differ with formula-driven values: Please…
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Anaplan ADO and Google Cloud Integration
Hi Anaplaners, I have a question related to Integrating Anaplan to Google cloud(GCP) through ADO. Currently we can integrate GCP and ADO via a GCP service account with JSON key authentication which is a static authentication method (Fixed JSON key file), Here in-seated of static authentication, can we use another dynamic…
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Report Book Index
The created XLSX file contains an index of template report names that quick link to the related report tab. Since templates may be used to create multiple different reports based on passthrough parameters, I believe it makes more sense for the index to reference the Description given in the report book rather than the Name.
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Macroeconomic Variables
Hello Community, Is there a way to source into Anaplan for modeling purposes forecasted/consensus macroeconomic variables such as GDP, benchmark rates (Fed Funds, SOFR), Unemployment, etc? Thanks! Daniel
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Retrieving Anaplan’s Optimizer logs step-by-step
[alert callout] Community manager note: This post and/or comments below reference a workaround for getting API details from your browser window. Anaplan will be retiring the https://us1a.app.anaplan.com/2/0 legacy API on July 31, 2026, to enhance platform security and performance. API requests sent to this URL after July…
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FCR: Regarding the availability of the text color change feature in Workflow
When configuring an action task, such as a ToDo task, users can enter freeform text and specify the text color in the Info Text and Description fields. We understand that this feature is intended to allow users to change the text color. However, when the workflow is executed, all text is displayed in black. The situation…
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Assistance with 7.2.3 Employee Details Upload
Hi I was having trouble with the mapping and played around the system to attempt to figure it out but now I'm totally lost. When I tried uploading I get this mapping page, can someone provide me with directions on how to course correct?
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When will this "Coming Soon!" functionality be coming?
Greetings, Product Management People! This support article from nearly a year ago alluded to Dynamic Bulk Copy coming soon! https://product.anaplan.com/supercharge-your-model-building-efficiency-with-anaplans-upcoming-modeling-features-53955fd1-9330-4aaa-b145-484ad733afc3 The screenshot shows the option to select the…
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I am working on Level 3 V1 section 6.3, I would like to know if the Example is what given is right
I have tried a few different ways and have not come up with these numbers.
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Export of Revision Tags
Need a way to periodically export all revision tags within an Anaplan model into a excel file to simplify audit and documentation process, but Anaplan currently has no native option to do this. The existing workarounds are all imperfect: the revision tags page can't be copied directly (the "Compare" pop-up only captures…
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Polaris Training in Classic Workspace.
Hi, I currently don't have access to the Anaplan Polaris workspace. Is it acceptable to proceed with the training in the classic workspace, or will this create issues later and prevent me from obtaining Polaris certification? Let me know if you have any insight on this.
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New UX: Can Context Selectors Drive Parent Choices in Form Created List Members
Hi everyone, I have a very specific new UX question around context selectors and their impacts on the UX. I've created a list hierarchy with a numbered list at the bottom. This numbered list represents something not unlike transactions. I've created a form in the new UX to allow for creation of these new transactions, with…
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An Update on Anaplan Audit Log Reporting: A No-Code Approach
A while back, I shared a pattern for extracting and reporting on Anaplan audit data using a Python project hosted on GitHub. I wrote that during my time on the Operational Excellence Group (OEG) at Anaplan. The Python solution still works, and plenty of teams are running it today. The problem it solves hasn't changed:…