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🤓 Xplan Hint: Visualising Aged Care
Did you know you can use Visualise to help your clients feel connected to a tangible future when talking Aged Care? Visualise provides an easy, intuitive ,and interactive way to model aged care possibilities with your clients. With Visualise you can: Enter client data quickly Model aged care entry (fees and income support)…
🤓 Xplan Hint: Stop Scrolling and Master Your File Notes
How often does this happen? You open a client file and spend the first five minutes scrolling through years of note history, desperately looking for that one critical note or maybe all the notes related to a specific topic. Using Notes effectively isn't just about capturing the note. It's about making it findable for you…
🤓 Xplan Hint: Let your clients Visualise their future from the get-go
Did you know you can use Visualise as part of your onboarding process, providing clients with a projection of their potential financial future within minutes? Instead of spending your first meeting collecting data, use Visualise to engage your clients right from the start and effectively demonstrate the value of your…
🤓 Xplan Hint: Client Portal Config at your fingertips
Did you know you now have access to configure your Client Portal from right within your Xplan site? With the release of the Client Portal Content Management System (CMS), you are now able to update the configuration settings for each of the Client Portal sites that you manage, without the need to go through Iress Connect…
🤓 Xplan Hint: Resize multi-fields
Did you know that you can now resize multi-fields on the interface, allowing you to view all options on screen at once? Yep, sometimes it is the little things that make a difference. While string fields have always been resizable, viewing a long list of multiple-choice options previously required scrolling. With this…
🤓 Xplan Hint: Saving time with bulk client actions
Did you know you can perform an action across multiple clients, all at once? If you ever need to do something in bulk for a list of clients, like adding a file note or task for example, then this hint will certainly take the tedium out of your day! On the client list screen (you can filter these via Advanced Search or any…
🤓 Xplan Hint: Use task outcomes to automatically update fields
Did you know you can use a task outcome to update fields in Xplan? That’s right, you don't need to click through pages to update fields, then come back to the task to mark it as done - simply complete the task and have it update the fields for you! Imagine you have a process where every new prospect is asked to log in to…
🤓 Xplan Hint: What’s that? There’s predictive search functionality in advanced searches now?
Did you know we just made it easier for you to find the field you are looking for in the search criteria field list? Predictive search is an advanced search functionality that uses smart algorithms to anticipate what you’re looking for - before you finish typing. Yes, that’s right, finding the right fields in Advanced…
🤓 Xplan Hint: L is for Learning
Did you know that accessing the Iress Learning Centre is now as simple as finding Help in the Iress Community? Yep, you all loved H for Help so much that we went ahead and introduced L for Learning. You saw " H for Help " and asked, “Why not have a similar feature to direct the users to the Iress Learning Centre?” We…
🤓 Xplan Hint: Validate data with Regex
Did you know you can add data validations to text fields? Regular Expressions, often shortened to Regex, are incredibly powerful sequences of characters that define a search pattern. When used for data validation, they act like a strict quality controller for your text fields! You can use Regex to enforce specific formats,…
🤓 Xplan Hint: Want to know a quick and easy way to get your Xtools+ tables looking snazzy in Word?
Did you know that with only a small amount of effort, you can merge formatted Xtools+ tables into Microsoft Word to use in your SOA templates? If your advice wizard isn't set up with the Xtools+ tables you use all the time, no worries, here's a quick and easy way to extract them in a usable format. First, figure out which…
🤓 Xplan Hint: Embrace the Emoji
Did you know you can add emojis to the Xplan interface? Ever looked at your Xplan menu or page and scrolled up and down looking for the exact item? Would an image help? As you can see I have added an emoji to Key Details (menu), Main (page) and Title (field). Emojis are part of the Unicode standard, just like regular…
🤓 Xplan Hint: Managed Field Content
Did you know we recently made some updates to how you administer Managed Field Content? Yep, you’ve been asking for a while and we have delivered - with the right capabilities, you can now delete managed field content created by another user. And you can edit the name of saved content without it creating a new item! You’ll…
🤓Xplan Hint: When you just want to see the document before completing the wizard in full.
Did you know that the new Xmerge Preview functionality allows you to do just that? This one is for all the paraplanners and advisers who have ever said - “I just want to know where it’s going to end up in the document”, while they’re ticking boxes and adding content within an Xplan wizard. I’m a big believer that all…
🤓 Xplan Hint: H is for Help!
Did you know you can get instant help in Xplan? Just highlight any text on screen, hold down the 'H' key, and be taken straight to the relevant help menu in Iress Community! Imagine you're navigating Xplan and come across a section you need more information on. Instead of breaking your workflow to manually search for…
🤓 Xplan Hint: Don’t let yourself be the last to know
Did you know you can subscribe to the release notes in Xplan? If you didn’t know, or if you did know but haven’t bothered yet, you’re missing out! By subscribing, you’ll get an email in your inbox with the latest release details so you’ll never have to say, “Oh, I didn’t know that”, ever again. There are some very cool…
🤓 Xplan Hint: Supercharge your Searches with Syntax
Did you know you can use search syntax in Xplan to create powerful and specific advanced searches—beyond what the basic interface allows? With just a few lines of code, you can target contact details, user fields, adviser roles, and even partner relationships. It’s a game-changer when you need ultra-targeted search…
🤓 Xplan Hint: Datafeed provider balances
Did you know you can now see if the balance in your clients’ portfolio accounts matches the balance sent to Iress by the datafeed provider right within the client portfolio screen? You no longer need to navigate to the datafeed reconciliation reporting screens - you can view the provider balances (as sent to IressNet)…
🤓 Xplan Hint: Client Hub - your one-stop-shop for client activity
Did you know the Xplan Client Hub is essentially a one-stop-shop for all client activity? Centralise the way you work and stop navigating between screens, the Client Hub should be your go-to page for most of your every day activities. Everything you need (most of the time), right at your fingertips in one location. Why…
🤓 Xplan Hint: When your file notes need a new home
Did you know that you can move file notes between entities? We still hear (to our collective horror) about users moving file notes between entities by copying and pasting. But there’s a much quicker way! In the file note’s ‘Related’ tab, just click on the Add button to add other entities, and use the chain link button to…
🤓 Xplan Hint: Controlling the name of your xmerge outputs
Did you know you can control the filename of your xmerge outputs? Are you all too familiar with opening attachment after attachment with the default ‘reportout-5583-4567’ generic filename when trying to locate a specific document? If so, then you are doing things the hard way. By adding a simple line of code to your…
🤓 Xplan Hint: Workflow groups - assign tasks to a group of people rather than an individual
Did you know you can create a workflow group to assign tasks to as part of a case or thread template? Ever needed to assign a task to a paraplanning work group or a client services team, rather than to an individual or specific role? Super useful for when your business operates using a pool of people who pick up tasks…
🤓 Xplan Hint: Client List - generating a report
Did you know you can customise your client search list and export the list into either PDF or CSV? Previously only the PDF version was available from this screen, but now you can export the data into a CSV file. What's even better is the newest available feature that will export the exact columns you have in your client…
🤓 Xplan Hint: Model changing investment profiles in CALM
Did you know you can model changing investment profiles in Xtools+ using Life Stages? As clients move through different phases of life, their risk tolerance and investment needs shift. That’s where Life Stages in CALM come in—letting you automatically adjust investment profiles over time, based on age or balance. For…
🤓 Xplan Hint: Search smarter from the Xplan search bar
Did you know you can search notes, workflow, policies, assets & portfolios straight from the Xplan search bar? Need to find something quickly? Look no further than the top right-hand corner of Xplan. I’d guesstimate that 95% of Xplan’s users only ever use this function to search for clients or to access saved Advanced…
🤓 Xplan Hint: Shortcut your favourite menu items
Did you know you can add shortcuts to your favourite / most frequently used menu items to the navigation menu in Xplan? We know some menus in Xplan require several clicks to get to - you can create your own shortcuts to these by saving them to your Links page. Next time you find yourself searching for a menu item that you…
🤓 Xplan Hint: Getting fancy with client search
Did you know about client search prefixes? Not many users know about this, but you can search for clients using details aside from just their name. For example, if I want to search for clients with the postcode “2000”, I can just use the prefix pcode in the Quick Search box: This could be useful if you need to do specific…
🤓 Xplan Hint: Speed up with Xtools+ scenario templates
Did you know you can create your own Xtools+ scenario templates—complete with assumptions, strategies, and even custom labels—ready to apply to multiple clients in seconds? If you find yourself building the same types of scenarios in Xtools+ (think: super contributions, pension strategies, or asset sell-down sequences),…
🤓 Xplan Hint: Set your landing page
Did you know you can set your own landing page in Xplan? Why? Save time by being automatically directed to the page that you use the most, everyday. Using a landing page automatically directs your eye to what's most important to you in your role. How? Select preferences from below your name; Navigate to General; Select…
🤓 Xplan Hint: Don’t get caught with your pants down with IressID
Did you know that IressID is coming? You may have seen the emails and messages already, but in case you haven’t, make sure to read on as this will affect every user. IressID is a centralised identity management system that provides secure, streamlined access across Iress products. What this means for you is that you’ll be…

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