Idea Exchange

As an Anaplan user/model builder, I find the white can be a little too much some times and not too easy on the eyes.   It would be great is there was a night mode or dark theme that swapped the colour palette for something not as bright.   This may also help with accessibility Thanks! ... View more

It would be very useful to have the ability to automate the export of a blueprint view of a module through Anaplan Connect or the Anaplan API - in this way we could compare an export of a blueprint view of a module automatically, to check if the structure of a model had changed over time.   I have been working with a client where they will be utilising Anaplan Connect to upload files to a data hub and also export files out of a spoke model on a daily basis to feed a data warehouse - this requires a number of fixed mappings to be developed both in Anaplan and externally to map into the data warehouse.   There is currently no report available on an automatic basis that details changes to a specific set of modules, thus a failure of import either into Anaplan or externally would need to be investigated.   Best,   Callum   ... View more

In blueprint view, we can see if a line item is referenced by a formula, but not if it's used in a filter. When cleaning models, we can end up deleting items used in filters and breaking filters with no warning. ... View more

As a Model Builder, I would like to select a Number format for an entire model ("Global Default Number Format" ?). This could be very helpful for us to save time. This can work like the selection of the "Global Default Gride Style" in the Dashboard Settings. ... View more

Hi,    When using REST API scripts, in the answer to a taskID for processes or imports, there is all the information that is needed except some very useful audit information like:  - Timestamp Start TaskID  - Timestamp End TaskID - user that launched the task   Is it possible to add these kinds of information?   Thanks Alex   Bellow an example of TaksID answer:   { "taskId" : "423B18C44F7D4FB1806B79EA44AD9A8A" , "currentStep" : "Failed." , "progress" : 0.0 , "result" : { "failureDumpAvailable" : false , "nestedResults" : [ { "details" : [ { "localMessageText" : "Property-based import has one of the key properties unmapped - cannot proceed" , "occurrences" : 0 , "type" : "hierarchyImportPropertyKeyUnmapped" } ], "failureDumpAvailable" : false , "objectId" : "112000000193" , "successful" : false } ], "objectId" : "118000000036" , "successful" : false }, "taskState" : "COMPLETE" }   ... View more

In the Workspace overview in the tenant administration you can only see the total Workspace size. It would be great if we could see additional metrics in here, like Current Usage, Max Usage and perhaps as well the usage per month. Now it is a quite intensive process in order to have an overview of the usage per Workspace if you have a lot of different Workspaces in one tenant.    It would be also great if we could rename the workspaces ourselves instead of a request via the business partner.   These functionalities would greatly improve the workspace maintenance in large organisations. ... View more

When model building I find myself regularly want to see a module AND it's blueprint mode simultaneously so I can scan formulas, change things in blueprint, and immediately see the effects without having to toggle back and forth. This would be like using split screen in Excel to compare two workbooks side-by-side   Toggling is no issue in small modules, but if the line you're viewing is two screens down in the blueprint list of line items, and you leave blueprint mode, then come back, you have to find it again because it starts you at the top of the list again.     To work around this I duplicate the Anaplan tab, but have to open the same module and get it configured the way I like.  But even then when I select a line item in one tab, it doesn't communicate with the other tab.  Ideally they would be in sync. ... View more

It would be very helpful for a COE team or any Full Access User of a Model to be able to see of the people that have access to the model:  1. Who is viewing a dashboard and or module 2. If not who is viewing but how many people are viewing 3. when these people are viewing dashboards example (John Doe, Jan 4th 2019). a Log of who and when for export.   Tableau gives you the ability to see who, what, when is viewing your published dashboards. This helps the owner of the Tableau Dashboard to see if said Dashboard is being utilized by end users. This is useful because If it is not being utilized owners of models can go back to end users of Dashboard/modules this was intended for to better understand why they aren't using the dashboard and module. This will help with building trust and control around models/dashboards that are utilized by a large audiences and track efficacy.  ... View more

It would be great to have a Anaplan connector in PowerBI (same idea as Excel and PowerPoint connectors), to have a live interfacing of data. ... View more

For the purpose of calculating lease contracts in IFRS 16 it's sometimes needed to have wide time ranges in the model. Currently, the amount of future years is limited up to 50 years and past years up to 20 years (link). This means you have a maximum time range of 70 years. We experience that some lease contracts extend 70 years and therefor require a wider time range to do certain calculations without work arounds. It would be succesfully solved if time ranges are either unlimited or extended up to a maximum of 100 future and past years. ... View more

As a user in a dashboard I'd like to be able to filter data also on line items that are formatted as subsets for which I receive the message "Unsupported Operation 'Filter'".   There are situations where for improving performance on big modules for a particular list the calculations can be reduced using a subset based on the main list. However when data are published in a dashboard with a combination of columns that present line-items that formatted on "main list" and line-items formatted on subsets of the "main list" the user receives the message "Unsupported Operation 'Filter'".      Do you think it would be possible to open the possibility to make filters based also on line-items formatted with a substet ?   Thanks Alex ... View more

Description of the enhancement required: Display the Action's IDs in Actions list so that Interface (Anaplan Connect or Rest API) can work with action's IDs (not with captions (Action Names)) A story for why they want the enhancement, (how would it help their business process): At the moment, to refer an action by ID we need to use Anaplan API and download actions list and extract ID from there. It would be much easier to have ID displayed in actions list. ... View more

Description of the enhancement required Could you please add to the enhancement list the task to add a new standard subtotal for timescale?We are very interested to have BOHY showing the YTG numbers for every Half Year Period. A story for why they want the enhancement, (how would it help their business process) We have been asked for this analysis from the 4 different regions for on of our cycle reports. We do have a number of workarounds, but they all force us to implement the dummy timescale and to use a lot of combinations for SUMs and LOOKUPs which make our model slower. I think it’s important to mention that this BOHY is a very standard metric for finance teams, so I believe it also would be very helpful for other customers. ... View more

  Being able to keep a model clean and well organised is really important in allowing model builders to understand and work with the model going forward.  Often we find that as a model grows, the number of lists, modules, actions etc grows quite large and can start to become difficult to manage.   This enhancement idea is to give model builders the ability to add folders to each of these areas.  These folders could be nested and simply allow for the different modules, lists etc to be organised into this folder structure making the model easier to work with as it grows.  This would make some of our current approaches to organisation (such as creating dummy separator lists) redundant and would be a more robust solution.   See the attached screenshots for some mock ups of how this might look.     ... View more