Make Bulk Copy between Versions an Action

Currently our team EVERY WEEK, has to bulk copy the current version to the previous version because there is no way to automate this. That is 52 manual interventions every year. If you could create an ACTION that would allow you to bulk copy and have user select source version to target version, than we can schedule an informatica job to run this and avoid any manual effort on our teams part.

Is there any plan to do this in the future?

18 Comments
Miran
SuperContributor
Status changed to:Your support is needed
JaredDolich
Moderator

This would be amazing. Without this being 'actionable' then we have to create a separate action for every module that has editable line items.

Tiffany.Rice
Certified Master Anaplanner

I like this idea as it gives greater flexibility to end users for What-If analysis (without being dependent on their admin). Ideally there would also be the ability to create Actions to Insert or Delete versions as needed.

Gwen.pryor
Regular Contributor
Status changed to:Under Investigation
david.savarin
Regular Contributor

This is totally a feature I would look forward to have as a action to be added to administration dashboards.

I was surprised this is not already available ^^

Gwen.pryor
Regular Contributor
Status changed to:Not Planned
fabien.junod
Certified Master Anaplanner

This would be really helpful

ebayliss
Contributor

This would be super helpful, and I've seen many similar ideas on the idea exchange requesting the same thing.@Gwen.pryorwith all the kudo's this has received, just wondering why the status was changed from Under Investigation to Not Planned?

JaredDolich
Moderator

@Gwen.pryorand@Miran

I second@ebaylisscomment. And, I'd like to raise my hand on this one.

If you add all the kudos together, this ideas certainly has one of the top votes and I can attest to the time productivity loss by having to hunt down every module that uses versions and has editable line items. Even more troublesome when someone adds a new editable line item - manual actions won't keep it in sync.

Is it really that challenging to put the bulk copy to an action? We do it for the optimizer - seems doable to me but at least if you could share with us why this is not planned would be appreciated.

fabien.junod
Certified Master Anaplanner

Totally agree with@JaredDolich

david.savarin
Regular Contributor

+1. I was really surprised this went to not planned, meaning that the idea is definitely dropped ?

Alessio_Pagliano
Certified Master Anaplanner

I'm sure I raised the same idea a long time ago ....I'm a bit surprised as well that this isn't planned.

I'm voting on this one, just in case:slightly_smiling_face:

DavidSmith
Master Anaplanner/Community Boss

@Alessio_Pagliano

Don't worry - We had a change of status set up in our system which re-set some of the flags

This one is being investigated

David

JaredDolich
Moderator

@DavidSmithThank you!

I'm really glad this will remain on the radar at the very least.

Very time consuming process - kind of a dreaded process in my world.

Can we consolidate all the ideas for this into one and add up the points? I think you'll see it's quite high.

DavidSmith
Master Anaplanner/Community Boss

@JaredDolich

Don't worry, I don't need the points tally - It's on my radar!!:grinning_face:

david.savarin
Regular Contributor

Glad to hear this is still on the radar !

Alessio_Pagliano
Certified Master Anaplanner

@DavidSmith, thanks for the good news:slightly_smiling_face:

VickiA
Community Boss
Status changed to:Considered for Future Roadmap