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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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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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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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Design standards for a superior user experience — Part 2: UX page standards
Author: Aaron Overfors is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Principal Architect at Spaulding Ridge. In my first article, we detailed how to create a robust design for the user experience; now comes pulling it all together and building the actual pages! We will examine the concepts and ingredients of a strong page to focus…
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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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Design standards for a superior user experience — Part 1: Effective dashboarding
Author: Aaron Overfors is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Principal Architect at Spaulding Ridge. A strong user experience is the key to almost every Anaplan solution’s success. A well-designed Anaplan model that scales, performs well, and is easy to maintain will become shelf-ware without a thoughtful, purposeful user…
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Using Left for Different Number of Characters
I have account strings that are separated by a different number of characters for each string. I need to pull everything left of a colon ":" to get the first piece of the account strings. Some of the accounts are 3 characters and some are 4. Ex. AAA:BBB:CCC; AAAA:BBB:CCC. I need to pull all the A's for everything left of…
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Anaplan Color Pallet
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 Anaplan Color pallet should be consistent across all forms. Text Pallet is different Action Icon Default Colors, and different…
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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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Sorting General List
Hi, I wonder if there's a way I can sort my general list alphabetically. The list is used as a drop down menu in a line item module and I want the drop down menu to be easy to navigate. I've already tried the Order List action. I already have a module with a text-formatted line item based on that list. But when I try to…
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New UX Input cell colour
Hi community, I want to give a colour background for my input cells in new UX. Just wondering if there is a straight forward option. Any advises will be appreciated. Thanks Kal
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Anaplan Matillion Integration
I have a requirement to extract last 90 days data from an Anaplan model through Matillion. I wanted to know is there any API which I can use to achieve the same? I have taken a look at the (Integration APIs) Bulk API as well as Transactional API and none of them has a relevant query parameter which I can use to apply the…
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How to create identical child items for multiple parents
The data I'm trying to import is as follows Parent-Code A B A C B D C D D E I want to generate the following list from this data: L1 L2 L3 L4 A A-B A-B-D A-B-D-E A A-C A-C-D A-C-D-E You can create up to L3.However, L4 has multiple parents for one row of data When I try to create L4 from D-E, only one list row is generated…
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I attempted the Anaplan Level 2 Model Building - On Demand Sprint 1 exam many times due to system i
I attempted the Anaplan Level 2 Model Building - On Demand Sprint 1 exam many times due to system issues and Sprint 1 exam got locked. Can you please support to resolve this issue soon as I need to resume doing my Sprint 1 exam and next lessons.
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How to create Anaplan formula MTD with Input Date
Hi, I'm trying to create a month to date line that is based on a specific input date, not the actual date. Is this possible?
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My Anaplan exam is lock...............
My Anaplan exam is locked due to maximum attempts . please tell how to unlock it
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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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How to set a unique code based on Store/date information ?
Hi everyone, Does anyone know how I can generate a unique code by Store/date combination, knowing that the date is a current date that will be changing every day, it's going to be the order ID and and it going to have to start by a #: Thank you for the help :)
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Workflow - Add Machine task on Reject
As a workflow builder, I want to have the possibility to add a machine task after a reject, so that I can run a process or write data. For example: A Decision task can end on Reject. Afterwards, it should run a process/task, specifically designed for rejection (Import Item, write task, run Anaplan Process). This…
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Workflow: Continue Workflow after Decision Task Rejection
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 a workflow ends if a decision task is rejected and it is not possible to add workflow steps after the rejection. I want to…
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Level 2 - 1.6.3.2 Import Data into DAT04 Distribution Center Parameters Module
L2 - Sprint 1 - 1.6.3.2 Import Data into DAT04 Distribution Center Parameters Module * Download data file: Weekly Safety Stock.csv. * Import data file into the DAT04 Distribution Center Parameters module. I am trying to do the mapping Distribution tab map is not coming properly Please help to resolve the issue . Regards,…
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Downloading Anaplan Planual in PDF
Is there such an option? Thanks
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Stock Projection (Stock + Input - target)
If anyone can help me with this: I need to perform a stock simulation by inputting values, as you can see in Mar 24, I do not have enough to reach the Best Estimate (what I need is 261 to reach). But if I input 1000 in Feb-24, I would have 146 + 1000 = 1146. I need to subtract the target for February, which is 261, from…
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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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Freeze Panes by Default on UX Pages
I would like the ability to set certain rows or columns on UX pages as "frozen" by default. As of 2023 end users can select certain columns or rows to freeze, but it would be a major improvement to be able to have those frozen panes apply to all users.
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Error when downloading supply chain model from anaplan academy
Good day, I receive an error when downloading level 2 supply chain model from anaplan academy to my workspace. I have also tried clearing cache and used various browsers with the same result. See error attached.
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Unlock Your Next Level Model Building Potential with Improved Anaplan DX
Hi Anaplan Community! I’m excited to present you Improved Anaplan DX by valantic, a Chrome extension, that also works seamlessly on Edge. This tool is designed to make your Anaplan model building experience smoother, more efficient and supercharge your productivity. Download the Improved Anaplan DX today to bring your…
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Update email id
Can anyone please explain how to update my registered email ID jn Anaplan.
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How Can I Train Stable Diffusion for NSFW Image Generation?
Training Stable Diffusion for NSFW image generation is not just about fine-tuning models, but also about setting the right framework. Here’s an idea-based breakdown: Define the Goal Clearly – Before starting, decide if you want realism, anime-style, or artistic NSFW visuals. The dataset should align with your creative…
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Integration SAP with ANAPLAN
Hello to everybody, We are facing some problems extracting information from SAP to ANAPLAN. We are trying to connect SAP with ANAPLAN just to export data from SAP to ANAPLAN. We need to extract information from tables of SAP (master data tables and transactional data tables like A DOCS). But we also need to extract…
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Mapping
Hi all, I’m having trouble grasping how “mapping” works in Anaplan when importing data and aligning dimensions. I keep getting confused about when to map to lists vs. line items vs. time, and how to handle mismatched names and hierarchies. Could someone explain, in simple terms.
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Creating a model - L1
Hi guys, I'm doing my level 1 cert right now. I dont have access to a company workspace to create a model as part of the learning. Any idea how I can get access to a workspace to complete this please ?
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Anaplan XL reporting support for Mac OS systems.
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 current Anaplan XL add in is not available on Mac OS systems which hinders few users from leveraging its benefits. How often is…
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Lesson 13.3.1 - Level 1
Hi All, Am unable to find the option to Create an App. Also, the Click Let's get designing is not showing as per the 13.6.3 Activity. How to move ahead when both options are not showing ? I have referred to few posts on same topic but couldn't find the options to complete the activity. Could someone please help on this ??
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Guiding users through the UX best practices — Event recording available!
In July, we hosted a challenge inviting Community members to share their best practices on guiding users through the UX. We shared prompts with the Community to get members thinking about how they how craft the user journey through the app. Yesterday, we held an event highlighting the responses we received from the July…
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View the physical size of the model
Could you please show me the physical size of the model? In the past, when there was a failure to access the production model, Anaplan explained that there was a gap between the logical size and the physical size, and in fact, it was due to a lack of free space in the physical size. If we can check the physical size, we…