About CallumW

The ideal scenario would be to have an interactive "export dashboard" dialogue box, allowing users to make basic layout changes to PDF exports of dashboards.   With this, a user could preview the PDF before export, and make basic layout changes such as changing column widths (or just bringing the column widths already set in the dashboard), adding page breaks and changing the order of modules/charts in the exports (I'm thinking a simple drag and drop solution).   An administrator could lock these settings as a default for users to export a dashboard in this way and you could create actions to export the dashboard in PDF to a dashboard itself (I've seen a number of posts and received comments from clients about users having difficulty locating the export button) - these export actions could also then be automated and be accessible via Anaplan Connect/Anaplan API.   Overall, I believe these changes would vastly improve Anaplan's ability to provide executive level reports - the current settings make it very difficult to build meaningful reports for export that are easy to view and result in a lot of extra work to manipulate information that is already available!   ... 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

Hi all,   I think it would be useful for users and model builders alike, to have a search functionality in the contents menu to  enhance a user's navigation experience.   This would be particularly useful when they have access to a wide range of dashboards and modules.   Best,   Callum ... View more

Hi all,   I think it would be extremely useful for users to set a global default for column settings when publishing modules to dashboards.   These settings would include;   - Default Wrap Text in Headers - Eg. 3 lines - Default Column Width - Eg. 100 px - Default Width for Row Labels - Eg. 200 px   I think it would be useful to see these options alongside setting the global default grid style.   It would save a lot of time if a model builder is trying to make the modules published on the dashboards look consistent (i.e. always applying 3 lines for wrap text in headers, or always setting a default column width, as currently, this would need to be changed for every module view published individually)   Best,   Callum ... View more

I think it would be very useful if as a model builder I could customise the colour of the Anaplan banner on a model by model basis, helping me to differentiate models that are in different stages of ALM.   i.e. I could change my DEV model banner to Red, TEST to Yellow and Live to Blue.   I think, even if a coloured tag was placed at the front/end of the name to help differentiate the models in ALM, it would certainly be a more obvious visual cue rather than just the name (I have lost myself working between tabs before and I am sure I will do it in the future, but no doubt this will help to stop this!) ... View more

I think all model builders will know the frustration of trying to open the settings menu and misclicking the model map!   It will often take minutes to load on large models, with no option to cancel the selection - in some instances it even crashes the browser!   Please give us the opportunity to hide or move the button to open the model map to somewhere on the page that is more suitable!   (I would love to see some stats on time wasted by clicking the button, I know I must have lost plenty over the years!) ... View more

 Hi,   Currently, if you drill down through several layers of modules and try to open the menu of a module to open the source module it appears as if the menu has not opened.   I have learned from experience that the menu does actually appear, but seemingly in a random position further up from the drill down tabs, and floats as you scroll up and down.   I have spoken to colleagues about this and some have even assumed that opening the menu simply did not work from a drill down menu because of this behaviour! As far as I am aware, this behaviour has existed for a very long time - please resolve! ... View more

It would be very useful to have this functionality rather than convert to numbers through DAY, MONTH, YEAR and back to text through TEXT function.   Best practice would dictate to split these functions out but this increases clutter and causes unnecessary calculations in models. ... View more

It would save time to not have to always go back to the modules tab and assign a functional area if I could do it upon creating the module, which seems sensible! ... View more

It would be useful to have some functionality that autosaves work every 60 seconds or so to a draft area in when creating new pages in the New UX, a couple of times I have lost connection to the page and lost my progress - this would bring it more in line with autosaving progress in other cloud solutions at the present moment. ... View more

Hi all,   I am having an issue that seems to be a result of the new v3.2 add-in update.   Previously, where boolean values were being pulled from the excel add-in, excel would automatically recognise them as general formatting and they would be activated and process the cell as a boolean.   Now it seems the values are being imported with a number formatting. Whilst I can change the formatting of the column of data to general and save the setting in the excel add-in, it will not activate and process the cell as a boolean until it is manually activated (i.e. I click into the cell and hit enter or run a text to columns)   Can we fix this/is there a way to quickly transform this to the way it was before? ... View more