It would be great to have a function to get current date and time. Timezone settings could be common for all users and maintained in the settings section
This was on the pipeline ready for release around 2018 and then disappeared so seems odd it went to 'needs community support'.
It would be a useful feature. If we could expand the users list to include a locale parameter then you could expand the functionality to give user specific time based dashboard filters. So would be very helpful.
Just implemented another automated process using Informatica connector to get the current date. Granted, it wasn't hard but still seems unnecessary. I second @mcconachie comment. I know Anaplan is in the cloud and as long as we got the UTC time (or Epoch time based on 1/1/1970 UTC) we can suit it to our needs. Hope this becomes a reality. For large implementations, particularly ones where we need to make dynamic decisions about elapsed periods this is a pretty standard business requirement.
The ability to have a today() function that returns the date, similar to that in excel. It would aid in providing model builders with the ability to timestamp when certain end user actions were run (i.e. when a journal was created + present it on the dashboard)
If you are using DataHub using integration you can populate Current Date and Distribute it to multiple Model using Actions. We have implemented in that way.
I have several customers which are monitoring projects. These projects have several milestones and milestone dates planned.
User Story for the customer:
Iwant to be notified if the planned milestone date is older than todays date because this helps me better and faster to find the projects which missed their milestone date(s).
Currently either a person is to maintain manually each day the Current Date in Anaplan or a script needs to be written to import the Current Date. A function for Current Date/NOW() will reduce manual maintenance and/or implementation effort and thereby simplify the process a/o technical solution
The ability to garner a current date or date time is critical functionality in any project and most use cases. I may not be speaking for the entirety of the community, but Im guessing a sizable percentage of the modelers care less about the how and more about the function. With performance considerations (of course) any viable method to pull the current date and/or date time would be a drastic improvement over what is available today and something that allows us to get this information directly from the system without additional build means we're focused on delivering results as opposed to spending time and effort to produce this data. Please consider adding this functionality asap.
