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June 2025 Economic Outlook
The U.S. economy is entering a more vulnerable phase — and the CPG industry is right in the middle of it. In this month’s 10-minute outlook, Board Principal Economist Natalie Gallagher unpacks the latest data and what it means for your business strategy. Here’s what’s changing: ✅ Tariff-driven inflation is expected to rise…
Monthly Customer News Update - June 2025
As diverse as our customer base, we have content just as manifold in this packed June edition of your customer news. Enjoy reading, watching, or taking part in our interactive contents: Are you #BoardAndProud? Best practice: Win big with external data Make smarter people decicions BARC Planning Survey 25 Transformational…
In my role as a Board developer, these are the things I focus on!
Author: Umesh Bugata is a Community Captain and Senior Software Engineer at Wipro. When I look back on my journey as a developer, the key areas that I focus on are my technical skills and soft skills and maintaining a balance between them. These include having sound technical knowledge of the tool, good understanding of…
Why the Future of Planning Isn’t Just AI—It’s Collaborative, Comprehensive, and Continuous
Author: David Marmer, SVP, Product at Board Global events have made "severe disruption" the new normal, profoundly reshaping work, consumer behavior, and supply chains. With constant financial uncertainty and frequent supply chain shocks, adaptability and robust planning are no longer just good practices but essential for…
Excel Workbook: Best Practices and Steps
Author: Eugen Melnic, FP&A Manager and Community Captain We all know that Excel is often the source of business frustration and confusion that leads to the start of a successful transformation through the power of Board. Excel can also be the end point too, as once the business data and processes are in Board, business…
2025 June Badge of Impact and CommunityCast
It's June, and time is flying by! We're keeping it simple this month with your updates in under a minute, and the opportunity to earn your June badge in (about) one word or less. Here we go… Thank you to last month's badge earners @Nico Weber and @Karry Schupp 👏👏. It was fun reading about Board's 'Force' multiplier. May…
Exclusive challenge for the greatest Board champions - ending June 30
Hello, Board Community! We are kicking off Board Beyond DACH in Frankfurt (May 26-27) and Board Beyond Italy (May 29) next week, closely followed by Board Beyond France (June 5)! Watch out for your Board gadgets & get your posts out - this challenge ends June 30 As proud Board Advocates, Board Community Captains, and…
Board 14 Upgrade Logs
Hello everyone! Keith Crosslin here. I’m a Board Customer Success Manager for Board Switzerland. Often, when I talk to customers about the possibility of upgrading to Board 14 (B14), they ask me what other customers are saying about it. To answer that question, I interviewed three Swiss customers who shared their…

⚡ All Recent Activity

Issues with 'Detail by' sorting feature
This issue has popped up in the layout editor after I added an entity in the configure drill down. The data is tying out correctly for all my data blocks, the only issue now is when I try to drill down on a specific P&L line. The drill down shows every member in the entity rather than the specific line I am trying to drill…
Change day formatt in time range ?
Hi ! Can anybody tell me how can i change the day format from "mm/dd/yyyy" to "dd/mm/yyyy"?
Data Model Package: filter out entity & cube position switch
When creating data model packages for databases with numerous entities and cubes, the 'changes' list often includes a large number of position-only updates. For example, my last package had 102 entity changes, with 98 of them being solely positioning updates. This makes it difficult to identify meaningful changes. Please…
Performance Problems in Board Frontend - Windows Log ID 7011
Hello, For several weeks we have the problem, that the Board frontend stops working for some time (often 1 or 2 minutes), so it does not answer any questions from the client any more. When this happens, all users are blocked. They are not locked out, only the requests to the Board reports, running at the moment, seem to be…
Board 14 - Confusing design tooltip border in layout
Hi, When hovering over tooltips in a layout, a confusing triangle shape appears. This shape can be misinterpreted as indicating additional information about a specific field (e.g., 'Measure Type' in the attached screenshot), which is not its function. Can the triangle shape be removed?
Level 200 Module 205 Missing editing options in Data Management screen
Hi everyone, I’m having an issue when working in Board’s Data Management screen. Although I’m in Edit Mode (it says so in the upper bar), I don’t see the usual editing options like labels, selectors, buttons, etc., on the left-hand side. However, when I go to the Home screen, these options are visible and available. I’ve…
June 2025 Economic Outlook
The U.S. economy is entering a more vulnerable phase — and the CPG industry is right in the middle of it. In this month’s 10-minute outlook, Board Principal Economist Natalie Gallagher unpacks the latest data and what it means for your business strategy. Here’s what’s changing: ✅ Tariff-driven inflation is expected to rise…
Level 200: 204 Functional Test - Confirm that selectors are functioning
After making the selections as described in the "Confirm that selectors are functioning", my data view for units is showing more records than what it should be. Although the count and total seem to be matching. Expected Data view for Units: After selection: Totals: I think I made a mistake somewhere while reading the data.
Level 200, Module 204: Capsule content missing in Board Cloud
Hi, I can still see the capsule (e.g., Financial Planning) in Board Cloud, but when I open it, the Home screen is completely blank. Previously, it contained the welcome message, icons like "Clarity Jewelers" and "Data Management", but now nothing appears. I may have accidentally deleted the content while editing. Could you…
Monthly Customer News Update - June 2025
As diverse as our customer base, we have content just as manifold in this packed June edition of your customer news. Enjoy reading, watching, or taking part in our interactive contents: Are you #BoardAndProud? Best practice: Win big with external data Make smarter people decicions BARC Planning Survey 25 Transformational…

❓ Unanswered Questions

Performance Problems in Board Frontend - Windows Log ID 7011
Hello, For several weeks we have the problem, that the Board frontend stops working for some time (often 1 or 2 minutes), so it does not answer any questions from the client any more. When this happens, all users are blocked. They are not locked out, only the requests to the Board reports, running at the moment, seem to be…

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Data Model Package: filter out entity & cube position switch
When creating data model packages for databases with numerous entities and cubes, the 'changes' list often includes a large number of position-only updates. For example, my last package had 102 entity changes, with 98 of them being solely positioning updates. This makes it difficult to identify meaningful changes. Please…
Board 14 - Confusing design tooltip border in layout
Hi, When hovering over tooltips in a layout, a confusing triangle shape appears. This shape can be misinterpreted as indicating additional information about a specific field (e.g., 'Measure Type' in the attached screenshot), which is not its function. Can the triangle shape be removed?
UX Improvement Ideas for Selectors
Hi everyone, I wanted to share a valuable piece of feedback from one of my clients regarding the user experience with selectors in Board 14.2 : Item Spacing: The items in dropdown selectors are currently too widely spaced, which limits the number of visible options. A more compact layout would improve readability and…
Extract / Reload / Clear Cubes by Group and Support for Sub-groups
Hi Community Currently, procedure steps like Extract Cubes, Reload Cubes, and Clear Cube apply to all cubes or to manually selected ones. I suggest two improvements: Add the ability to perform these operations by cube group(or subgroups - improvement 2) (via dropdown selection) Introduce the concept of subgroups within…
ALM to allow selection of desired objects to migrate at source
In the current scenario, if we need to migrate objects from one source to another, we need to take a snapshot and compare the differences at Target to determine what all objects should be migrated. In projects where multiple users might be developing objects in parallel, this requires a lot of manual effort to identify…
Upgrade/Migration tool
Hello team, I expect to be considered enhancement of a tool to reduce the workload involved in verifying/testing after the version upgrade. The desired functionality includes exporting and comparing positional information and setting values displayed on the screen. If it is difficult to provide comparison feature, using a…
Font size of screen name
Hello team, Font size of screen name on B14 is smaller than B12 or older. I know it is by design on B14 in current. I expect it can be updated to be changeable in design mode or mask setting. Could you consider this in new release? Masa,
The variety of line styles for the Cartesian graph.
Hello team, Let me post the idea of "the variety of line styles for the Cartesian graph". Customer would like to choose dashed or dotted line as line style. Especially, it is benefit to use monotone printing the graph or easy to identify the each lines. Could you please consider this feature in new release? Masa,
Filter and sort Option Flex Grid
Hey, to make the flex grid usable after the 14.3 update it would be good to have the same option of filtering and sorting as in a dataview. Greetings Julian
Suggestions for Chart and Data View Enhancements
Hi Team, Here are a few suggestions for improvements in the Charts and Data Views: Additionally, when the "Auto-Range" feature is enabled for the axis, the value range adjusts correctly, but in some cases, markers get cropped. It would be helpful to either adjust the auto-range logic to ensure markers remain fully visible…

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