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I would like the ability to more easily step through the actions in a given Process. Often when trying to debug an issue with a given process, I need to step through the actions in the process to see how the data or views change mid-process. Currently, I need to search for and run each action independently in order to do this. This is very tedious and time-consuming, especially if I already know I need to get to step 15 in the process and stop there. Ideally, this would be implemented as a pop-up for Processes in the Actions tab, with buttons to "Run" or "Run through" each action in the process. ... View more

Please sort Module names and Line Item Names alphabetically in the Filter pop-up window. In modules where there are a lot of a lot of Line Items, it can be very difficult and time consuming to scroll through and locate the correct line item for a filter. This makes for a very frustrating experience as a model builder. ... View more

Please add List Subsets to the Model Search of the new modeling experience, with a link to the parent list. List subsets are currently very difficult to identify if they were not initially created with a good naming convention. I end up having to export all General Lists and using Excel to search for the list subset in question. This is very slow and unwieldy vs. having a way to quickly identify the relevant list in Anaplan itself. ... View more

It would be really helpful if formula drilldown could highlight (maybe bold or with colors) the sections of a formula that actually apply in a specific calculation. For instance, in formulas with nested IFs, a lot of it will not apply in a particular calculation because the IF condition is not met. However, that is often difficult to tell at a glance. It can be very time consuming to check each condition to determine which one(s) actually apply. Being able to quickly identify the relevant parts of a formula would make it a lot easier and more efficient to troubleshoot, especially when dealing with very long & complex legacy formulas. ... View more

Please make the "Format" column in module blueprint mode much wider. Currently, list-formatted line items with list names of more than a word or two cannot be seen fully, which makes it hard to distinguish between similarly named lists at a glance. The only way to see the full list name is to click into the line item format change screen, which is slow and unwieldy and can also lead to accidental format changes. Furthermore, this can only be done in non-deployed models, which is especially inconvenient. In deployed models, I cannot even copy/paste the field to see the full name, since it pastes the backend identifier details for the list rather than the actual list name. If screen space is a concern, please consider swapping widths with the unnecessarily wide "Summary" column, which is mostly just showing "None" or "Sum". Ideally, I would like to be able to drag-resize these columns as needed. Alternatively, it would be helpful to have the format with full list name displayed somewhere (hover tooltip, browser status bar when clicking, by the "Line Item Formula" section above, etc.) ... View more

When reordering actions in a process, I would like to be able to drag/drop and also select multiple actions at once, the same way we can when reordering line items for a module. Currently, we can only do 1 action at a time, and move 1 spot at a time using the up/down arrows. This is very tedious and time-consuming when updating a lot of processes. ... View more

I'm having an issue with SUM giving me unexpected results. When I'm working with hierarchy lists and just need a top level sum rather than subtotals at all levels of the hierarchy, sometimes I'll use a 1-item list, add a line item set to this list item, and SUM over it to get the top level sum. It's a little convoluted but saves space and calculations vs. turning on summary over all the intermediate hierarchy levels. However, I just tried this and got a different number from the line item summary. While the line item summary gives me 276 at the top level (which is correct,) using the SUM function over my helper list item gives me 282. I can't figure out why this is happening. Is there something I'm missing/forgetting about using SUM in this way?   ... View more

It would be great if List Subsets could be sorted alphabetically by name in the "Applies To" popup when changing the dimensionality of a module/line item. When creating a new module, subsets appear under the main list which is very easy to find, however in the "Applies To" popup it's all over the place. This makes it unnecessarily difficult to locate the correct subset, especially if the model has a lot of subsets in use. ... View more

Anaplan allows users to quickly see cell change history for a given cell, which is great. As a model builder, I'd love to have a similar functionality to easily Show History for line items - formula changes for sure, but ideally also changes in format, dimensions, and summary methods, along with the name of the user making the change and timestamp. This would make it much easier to identify who has created or modified line items and what the previous settings were. Currently, the Model History provides some of this information, but it's very vague as well as tedious to pull. Ideally, we would also be able to check the history from individual line items without needing to pull the entire Model History. ... View more

It would be great to have an easy way to identify Page Selectors that are published to a Classic Dashboard. Since any list, including subsets, can be published as a page selector (which is awesome, btw!) it can be tricky to know which of several similar lists it is. Just having the name in the properties side panel would be very helpful. ... View more

I'd like Anaplan to ignore blank dates when performing MIN calculations: MIN, x[MIN:y], and MIN as a summary function. For numbers, I can see why 0 is evaluated since sometimes those are true zeroes, but for dates this makes much less sense. With dates, I would want the MIN calculations to return blank only if all of the items are blank or do not exist. ... View more