Multi Selection

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SarkaKrizkova
SarkaKrizkova Member, ALL USERS, Partner, Certified Model Builder Posts: 5 Contributor
in User Experience

I would like to ask for a new functionality within Anaplan that could really ease our work with Anaplan. And that is multi selection. I see two ways how to apply multi selection, both very helpful:

 

1. Multi selection for context selector. Once the dimension is displayed as "Context/Page Selector", it would be great to have a possibility for multi selection which would automatically summed up the selected items from the hierarchy - thus, we would have a possibility to see the sum of the values in the object per e.g. two countries that do not need to have the same parent.

2. Multi selection for drop down lists. When we display the dimension as row or column and we are using custom filters (using another line item with a format "list" to filter the content in the object), it would be great to have a possibility for the filter to have a multi selection - we could choose more than only one item from the list which would result in showing rows/columns that match more than only one item from the list, e.g. rows matching country A and below them rows matching country B.

3. Improvement of Filter in New UX. Alternative to the point 2 (however much less flexible) is to improve the existing filters in New UX in the following way:
a) we should have a possibility to apply them on more than one table. We often need to add two tables next the each other - one with no time, one with time dimensionality, but both creating one input table. In such case it is not possible to apply one filter to both tables which greatly limits the option to use this built-in filter.
b) it should be possible to edit them directly in the table (as e.g. "Search" works) and not in the right panel 

c) often, the whole name of the items in the field "Choose" is not visible - once it is longer and has more parents, we are unable to see the whole name of the items in the drop down. This should be changed.

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

    100% support for this. Our clients are repeatedly asking for this

  • JoeAnderson
    JoeAnderson Member, ALL USERS, Community Member Posts: 5 Occasional Contributor

    I have received requests in my organization for the ability to multi-select for a long time. We've often had to build things that are easily exportable in an Excel pivot-table friendly format so that users can multi select externally from anaplan, which is not at all ideal...

     

    I support this being added as future functionality.  

  • kdare
    kdare Member, ALL USERS, Community Member Posts: 2 Occasional Contributor

    Please implement the ability to multi-select in the New UX! My users request this frequently. I would love to be able to tell them that it's in the works. 

  • DmitrySorokin
    DmitrySorokin Member, ALL USERS, GroupMember, Certified Master Anaplanner, Community Member, Certified Model Builder, Community Pioneer Posts: 5 Master Anaplanner of the Year

    Multi-select is asked by every Anaplan customer I worked with. Workarounds are available but they are not perfect and end up impacting user experience.  

  • TimG
    TimG Member, ALL USERS, GroupMember, Certified Master Anaplanner, Employee, Community Member, Certified Model Builder Posts: 5 Certified Master Anaplanner

    The issue with using filters on screen via booleans is that the summary levels do no reflect the on screen values as it sums all underlying data. This is easily solved in excel using subtotal(). 

  • Suman Reddy
    Suman Reddy Member, ALL USERS, Community Member, Certified Model Builder Posts: 5 Frequent Contributor

    Hi,

     

    This is all time requirement in my organization. Good to have this function.

     

    Suman.

  • ColinPorter
    ColinPorter Member, ALL USERS, Partner Posts: 5 Occasional Contributor

    This is a request on about every implementation and would be a huge win for user adoption of Anaplan. It's been on the idea exchange for 2 years, can we have an update on any roadmap inclusion? 

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