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A CoE becomes essential when you own Anaplan
A CoE becomes essential when you own Anaplan Author: Stacey Borne is a Certified Master Anaplanner, former Anaplan Center of Excellence Leader, and runs the Certified Master Anaplanner Program and Anaplan Center of Excellence Programs at Anaplan. You don’t need a large team to have a Center of Excellence, but you do need…
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Building scalable Anaplan models — Part 1: Master data management in the Data Hub
Author: Hanwen Chen, Certified Master Anaplanner. If you read my previous article — “How to build a Polaris reporting model in less than 2 weeks” — you already know how to rapidly stand up an Anaplan Polaris reporting model by leveraging existing Data Hubs and Classic models. That article focused on speed of delivery. This…
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Reset list index: Prevent silent import failures from flat list internal indexing
Author: Sripriya Rao is a Tech Lead at Prudential Financial and an Anaplan Solution Architect. Anaplan flat lists maintain an internal index that can keep increasing over time, even if list items are deleted. When that index reaches the platform limit, imports into the flat list can fail at the platform level — sometimes…
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How to build a User Access Management Model (UAM) that scales
Author: Artem Shchaulov is a Senior Anaplan Consultant and Certified Master Anaplanner with 8+ years' experience implementing global EPM solutions. In my first article, we established why access management breaks at enterprise scale and why a dedicated User Access Management (UAM) model is the only architecture that works…
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How to maintain complex Anaplan environments — Part 2: Technical foundations for scale
Author: Piotr Weremczuk is a Certified Master Anaplanner and FinSys Application Specialist at EQT. In the first part of this two-part article, I explored the non-technical foundations of maintaining complex Anaplan environments: leadership, governance, accountability, and the importance of building the right team. All of…
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Anaplan Polaris — Tips & Tricks
This article is part of a series on Polaris best practices. Click here for more Community content or visit Anapedia for detailed technical guidance. Here at Anaplan, we're always looking for ways to help you get the most out of our platform. We know that sometimes the smallest adjustments can make the biggest difference in…
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CoE guidance: A practical Polaris migration strategy by project phase
Author: Laiza Tagumpay is a Certified Master Anaplanner with a background in Customer Success and Solution Architecture, now happily building and scaling Anaplan as a CoE Principal Engineer in a biotech company. Migrating from Classic to Polaris is not a lift-and-shift exercise. It requires a mindset shift in how models…
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March 2026 platform releases and what’s next
Check out the latest Anaplan feature updates and enhancements in our March 2026 official release notes. There you'll find information on: Intelligence Anaplan CoModeler Anaplan Analyst Anaplan Agent Studio User Experience Data driven hierarchies with drag-and-drop Enable or disable comments Module-driven navigation actions…
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Anaplan Optimizer Guidelines
OverviewThis guide provides clear rules for building Anaplan modules to work with the Optimizer. Follow these steps for reliable models and organized sections, guided by seven essential rules. The 7 Core RulesRule 1: Naming Conventions (recommendation) We recommend assigning specific naming patterns with descriptive…
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Interviewing and onboarding Anaplanners
Author: Andrew Barnett is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Vice President at PJT Partners. Having worked at several firms in the Anaplan ecosystem, both on the partner side and as a customer, I’ve seen firsthand how critical it is to hire and develop the right Anaplan talent. Bringing an experienced Anaplanner onto your…
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Event recording available: Anaplan Workflow expanded
If you missed our spotlight event on Anaplan Community Experience: Workflow Expanded, a recording is now available. Anaplan's Elizabeth Schera and Chris Stauffer share insights and strategies to optimize your processes. Presenters highlighted how to thoughtfully design workflows around real business processes rather than…
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How I Built It: User filters with variable hierarchy properties
Author: Erik Svensson is a Certified Master Anaplanner and a Principal Solution Architect at Anaplan. Hello Anaplan Community! Thank you for checking out my ‘How I Built It’ tutorial. In this video, I demonstrate a powerful technique for creating dynamic user filters. This solution gives your end-users the flexibility to…
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Modulation in Anaplan
Author: Arun Thakar, Vice President in the banking industry. In cases where you have a single DEV model and multiple TEST and PROD models, the situation may arise where one user group asks for a feature that is not required for other users in different models. All too often the answer is to build modules, lists, and logic…
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Annual rollover best practices — event recording available!
Last month, we hosted a Community Challenge inviting members to share their annual rollover best practices. We provided prompts to encourage members to share how they prepare for this critical time-of-year activity, their strategies for a smooth and successful rollover, and to inspire others in the Community with their…
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Five tips for managing remote projects
Author: Paola Malafaia is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Associate Consultant at Cornerstone Performance Management. Most of my early career was working physically allocated on a client with a specific project goal in mind. Those were the days of whiteboard sessions, impromptu desk conversations, and the constant,…
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Recognizing your impact: new points, badges, and ranks!
Inspired by the incredible engagement and collaboration we see in our Community every day, we want to better celebrate your contributions. We’re thrilled to introduce our updated Community ranks to clearly map out your engagement journey with us! Recognizing your Community contributions We've updated our Community ranks to…
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How to maintain complex Anaplan environments — Part 1: Leadership, governance & the human foundation
Author: Piotr Weremczuk is a Certified Master Anaplanner and FinSys Application Specialist at EQT. February 2026 marked my tenth anniversary of logging into Anaplan. A full decade. When I realized this, I decided it was finally time to write down some of the things I’ve learned about setting up and maintaining complex…
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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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Using territory maps with Anaplan
Author: Paola Malafaia is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Associate Consultant at Cornerstone Performance Management. After setting up Territory Maps, I had a few learnings and I thought it would be helpful for other developers to put some notes about the basic settings of this mapping feature for dummies. The goal here…
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How I Built It: Center of Excellence App
Author: Marina Ketelslegers is a Certified Master Anaplanner and FP&A voice for Anaplan and AI passionate about CoE support, solution architecture, and training. Hello Anaplan Community! I’m sharing a short walkthrough of my Anaplan Center of Excellence (CoE) App designed to help new CoE leads set up their CoE with clarity…
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How I Built It: Dynamic Allocation Order
Author: Kndia Davis is a Certified Master Anaplanner with five years architecting scalable Anaplan models. Dynamic allocation order is a foundational requirement across many industries, whether you’re distributing inventory, assigning capacity, or prioritizing financial allocations. In most Anaplan models, this allocation…
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Combined Grids: examples in accounting and construction
Author: Jonathan Cushing is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Senior Consultant at Vuealta Consulting. As a Chartered Accountant and someone who has experience in both in-house consulting roles for housebuilding and construction companies, I was excited by the release of Combined Grids in Anaplan. For years, when end-users…
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Fiscal to Gregorian calendar conversion in Polaris
Author: David Edwards is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Associate Partner at Columbus Consulting. For retail and consumer goods companies, a common issue occurs when different departments (typically supply chain and finance) utilize different calendar structures. Supply Chain teams often rely on a fiscal calendar (such…
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Polaris: The science behind better business planning
Author: Parmod Kumar, Certified Solution Architect, and Financial Planning & Supply Chain Specialist at TCS. Reading time: approximately 8-10 minutes. Why the Polaris engine Is powerful and beautiful Polaris is Anaplan’s next‐generation calculation engine, built from the ground up to handle high dimensionality, sparse…
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A quick reference guide to hierarchical structures in Anaplan
Author: Arun Thakar is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Vice President in the banking industry. Lists and hierarchies are a key foundational aspect to model building. In Anaplan, lists are a critical building block of the model and depending on which structure one uses can greatly impact user experiences, model…
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A four-lens metrics system for Anaplan CoEs
Author: Marina Ketelslegers is a Certified Master Anaplanner and FP&A voice for Anaplan and AI passionate about CoE support, solution architecture, and training. I’ve seen how Anaplan Centers of Excellence (CoEs) start with strong momentum. There’s enthusiasm, executive support, and a clear ambition to make connected…
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Anaplan API user reporting with Python
Author: Michael Moore is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Director, Enterprise Planning at HP. In this article I will cover: Why use Python for user administration? Prepare Begin OAuth2 login Finish OAuth2 login using redirect URL to fetch authentication token Import useful Python modules Fetch data about yourself Sort…
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Model History Management Capabilities
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: In our company, we operate with models that are significantly large, both in terms of data volume and the number of users interacting…
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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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L3 5.5.3 Sales Planning Model- Lists How can i import into G3S Sales Reps# list?
In the Sales Planning model, create two lists to import data from the Data Hub model. The first list should include the data that will identify the relationship between Sales Reps and the country where they are located. Q: Employees list keeps showing as a unique id instead of the employee name when importing from data hub…
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1.8.5.1 Import Data into G1 Region List
Hi Everyone, I am unable to import G1 Region List code from Data hub to Supply chain. Could anyone help with this please? The GI region meant to pick up from SYS05 Region Details 2 code but it didnt. I tried to import it through general list. I dont know what went wrong
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simple and advanced member search
In the member selector advanced search or basic search is used. It depends on the limit defined in Anaplan XL Options (data options, limit for quick search). However, if the limit is exceedet, the default search type "begins with" is NOT used in advanced search. (contains is used)
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Anaplan Data Orchestrator - Numbered Lists with Display Names
Previously, we have used display names in system modules for our numbered lists and then referencing that from the list property for the display name. When using ADO though, that means creating links for each of the parts of the hierarchy as well as links to the system modules that contain the inputs for the display names.…
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Building a Cash Flow Model (Need Advice)
Hi, So I'm playing around with trying to build a Cash Flow Model in Anaplan that is on a Daily Time Scale [WeekDay Function I plan to use] and has Line Items of different Accounts in the company that must stay at a min/max balance daily. I want to try and make this an Model that will automatically allocate the money around…
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1.5.2 Activity: Import Data into Beginning Inventory
Hello, I have a problem with this activity. I checked previous solutions, but it doesn't work for me… I attached screenshots: Thank you !!
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Waterfall chart
Hi, I'm working on some data that I'd like to present as a cascade chart, but I have no idea how to do it. Unless I'm mistaken, this type of chart isn't available by default. Do you have any tips or advice? Any examples? Thanks in advance, Julien
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Allow ISFIRSTOCCURRENCE to search against time
IFO returns true for the first occurence of a value against a specific list formatted dimension. i would like the possibility to validate against the time dimension as well.
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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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Webhook Issue
When you hook a Teams chat into a workflow, it returns an error rather than indicating success despite actually sending the Teams message.
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FCR: Extra option required for Shortcut object within dashboard
We use shortcut elements on our dashboard to share reports with our user groups. Yet when we click on this shortcut the report will be opened within the browser. Certain reports we would like to be opened within desktop Excel. Can you pls add an extra option to the shortcut element, so that we can control how the report…
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Activity: Import Data of Employee details
need to import the employee details from .CSV, and i was able to map the start date, current salary and commission% from the sample file. However the names and country are not getting mapped. Could someone help me out here SAMPLE DATA RESULT AFTER THE MAPPING - ONLY start date, current salary and commission% THANK YOU
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Workflow historization for auditability
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: Currently it is possible to delete a completed workflow. Unfortunately this does not meet internal requirements for auditability. Who…
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FCR: First showing "Explorer" when opening AnaplanXL Web
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: In the earlier versions (XLCubed and FluenceXL), users always started directly in the folder tree, whereas now it takes quite a few…
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FCR Feature Enhancement Request: Foreign Exchange Override rates
Current Behavior For the currency conversion (FX) calculation process, only dimensions from the default consolidation model are supported. However, the system currently displays (or allows selection/entry for) dimensions that belong to non-default consolidation models, even though they are not used for FX calculations.…
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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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AnaplanXL Difficulties
Has anyone found success using Anaplan XL with Polaris models in a shared drive with or without concurrent users? My team has experienced a variety of errors, login failures, etc. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. We've been recommended to save and edit files locally, which helps but certainly with its limitations…
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Creation of a Dedicated Administrator Role in Anaplan (separation from WA admin)
Hi! I would like to propose the creation of a new Administrator role within Anaplan. Currently, the only way to manage users within a model (outside of the Administration tab) is by assigning the Workspace Administrator (WA) role. However, the WA role requires a Model Builder license, which is significantly more expensive…
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Give us the ability make Line Item names dynamic similar to display names for numbered lists
I would like to request the ability to use formula-driven display names for Line Items, similar to how display names work for numbered lists. This feature would allow the display names to automatically update based on the model’s current period settings. For example, if I have a line item named "FY25 Budget," it would…
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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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Comments within formula
There should be a syntax to add comments within the formula. All programming languages provide this feature, for example: /* comment */ is used in Java, plsql. This will help to temporary remove any part of the formula for testing or add meaningful comments for reference.
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Where to find the Anaplan Way app?
Hi I'm going through the training for The Anaplan Way and have come across several references to an Anaplan Way app. Clicking on the link in the training brings me into the Anaplan App Hub rather than to the app itself. I've done general searches but have not been able to locate this app - can somebody please point me in…
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Anaplan XL Reporting : with FCR
Hello, At present, the parent (subtotal) is always displayed above its detailed elements when drilling. This behavior cannot be modified through grid options, drill settings, or workbook configurations, and there are no hidden parameters or prerequisites to enable a layout where the subtotal appears after the details. The…
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FCR: How to Delete Custom Dimensions from Default Consolidation Model
Currently in FCR, I am attempting to delete a custom dimension that was added to a default consolidation model. I have the appropriate permissions enabled and am able to delete dimensions from other consolidation models that I have created. However, for the default consolidation model, the trash icon is disabled (grayed…
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Powerbi Issues
Hello - I've had perfectly working powerbi extract from Anaplan until this Monday. We havent introduced any changes in the model. The query fails in the navigation step right after source. I get the error "The column: Column1 not found in the table". Experimenting with a clean file i get the same error before i do any…
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Action Change on comparison report: "Allow Writing To Current Period"
Hello Anaplan Community: When reviewing a comparison report for a new revision tag today, my team and I noticed two changes to a bulk copy action. The changes in the comparison report for this action are "Allow Writing To Current Period" and "Allow Writing To Periods Prior To Switchover" The previous values were "-" and…
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Running IRR (IRR Calculation by Period)
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: The IRR function in Anaplan is calculating the final IRR based on the entire cashflow over the timescale. We need it to calculate it…
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Easier Way to View References in Anaplan
Hi everyone, I’ve been working as a Solution Architect for a few years, and one recurring challenge in Anaplan is understanding what a line item is referenced by. While the “Referenced By” column is useful, I often end up copying it into a Word doc and t just to make it readable and easier to follow. Then begins the…