Applications of Newly introduced process/action timestamp .?

Hi Anaplanners,

 

Anaplan is has recently introduced start date and time update w.r.t each  process/actions run which has been very helpful.

 

Is there a way through which this timestamp can be published on DB or used in model building..?

 

Thanks in Advance.

~ABhi

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  • @abhi1017 

    Great question. Unfortunately not yet. But there is an idea on the exchange. Hopefully this will be added soon.

  • No, not possible.

     

    However you can do like the user data: set up an export of the actions tab and re-import it into a module. Then that can be scheduled to be updated automatically every x.

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  • Thanks @JaredDolich and @nathan_rudman 

     

    As of, I am using the same work around @nathan_rudman.

    But looking at something where i can use it directly/dynamically rather depending on integration.

     

    ~ABhi

     

  • I've discussed it with R&D as soon as I saw this update. It is quite unlikely we will get this natively.

  •  

    If not natively, surely they might provide another workaround.

     

    1. May be whenever a process/actions is published on DB the timestamp also is visible and updates itself in sync with the process/action run.

    2. Granularity :- List/ list member also get introduced to timestamp. (an extension to Process/action)

     

    ~ABhi

     

  • We'd use the functionality, what if an enhancement request is made?  Trying to come up with a way to show the timestamp for last time data is updated in various modules, use of that timestamp data would have solved my problem! 🙂

  • @vazqulu1 

     

    This discussion was started to address the exact requirement mentioned by you.

     

    ~Abhi

  • Antonio_Flor
    edited February 2023

    As a workaround I've added an action to write the user name into a line item and instructed user to right click to check user story on that to check the exact time.

    Recently I found a way to explicit publish a timestamp with an action by creating an Anaplan TimeStamp with a CloudWorks schedule in a Model, it runs every hour an changes changes the input on a line time to = previous time + 1