New Modelling Experience: New formula editor goes straight into edit mode

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CommunityMember123543
CommunityMember123543 Member, ALL USERS, Community Member, Certified Model Builder Posts: 5 Contributor
in Planning & Modeling

In the new modelling experience, when expanding the formula bar to display the whole formula in the new formula pane at the bottom of the screen it goes straight into 'edit' mode. This means that if you then click on another line item it adds '+[Line Item Name] onto the formula without you meaning to do so.

 

Anaplan need to change this so that a model builder can expand the formula, see it in the new pan but not automatically make it editable - this is so that you can click through and review the full formulas without risk of changing them without knowing.  

 

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  • WillemvanOs
    WillemvanOs Member, ALL USERS, GroupMember, Partner, Certified Model Builder Posts: 5 Occasional Contributor

    Right now, editing is directly enabled when a formula is opened in the New Model Experience. This makes it difficult to click through the (long) formulas of multiple line items within a module.

  • WillemvanOs
    WillemvanOs Member, ALL USERS, GroupMember, Partner, Certified Model Builder Posts: 5 Occasional Contributor

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  • macsimpson
    macsimpson Member, ALL USERS, GroupMember, Partner, Certified Master Anaplanner, Community Member, Certified Model Builder Posts: 5 Certified Master Anaplanner

    Great idea.

  • MCarls02
    MCarls02 Member, ALL USERS, Partner, Certified Master Anaplanner, Certified Model Builder Posts: 5 Master Anaplanner of the Year

    This would make troubleshooting formulas a lot easier.

  • shanemcintosh
    shanemcintosh Member, ALL USERS, GroupMember Posts: 5 Occasional Contributor

    +1 to this, I started using the new modeling experience a couple of weeks ago and stopped this week because of this. Will change back once this gets updated

  • abhay.kanik
    abhay.kanik Member, ALL USERS, GroupMember, Partner, Certified Model Builder Posts: 5

    @ChrisM  Seems like a different feature is delivered than was was asked from some of us. 

  • MattMule
    MattMule Member, ALL USERS Posts: 3 New Contributor

    Just my two cents, but this kills my productivity when actually building modules.  Apologies in advance for the mini rant here, but it is relevant.

     

    It's bad enough not having a hot key to automatically enter the formula mode where you can click on line items to insert references (if there is one, let me know!), but now I have to drag my mouse from the top left of the screen to the bottom right of the screen (27") every time I want to edit a formula in that manner.  Not great for the carpal tunnel. 

     

    While I understand how this can be useful in some circumstances, it seems generally awful for productivity.  What could be a great common ground is to implement a toggle switch in user settings somewhere that allows users to turn the feature on or off at their own preference.  

     

    Maybe we make use of the empty space in the "My Account" section to start implementing optional toggles to customize the Model Builder's user experience - put new features in there with default to the original state so users who want the feature can enable it, but other users are not impacted by its rollout. 

     

    Again, just my two cents, but please don't force the excessive, extra mouse movement requirements on me any longer! 

  • MattMule
    MattMule Member, ALL USERS Posts: 3 New Contributor

    Edith Effort does not approve!

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