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Hi Team,

It would be ideal if we had the option to replace blanks or zero's with a dash "-" in Data views. This would support reporting requirements for our government customers.

In the entity row formatting and data view block formatting, we need an option to replace blanks and/or zero's with a dash "-". Something similar to "Format negative numbers with parentheses" formatting functionality we currently have.  

The presentation of a "-" is mandatory for all government financial publications.

Thank you!

Dear Product Support,

Context:

As an Operational User I often design presentations where the screens contains Tab Objects. When I register a screen for my presentation while being positioned on the 2nd or 3rd tab (but not the 1st one) and then share this presentation with my Top Management the following issue occurs:

As a Top Manager I received the presentation, when landing on the screen, the first object in the tab will always be displayed first regardless of which tab when saving the screen to the presentation.

This behavior introduces a constraint - the recipient cannot know which tab I intended to highlight (2nd, 3rd …?).

Problem:

It creates frustration and increase the risk that important information may be missed.

Workarounds:

• Reorganizing the tab order based on importance, so the most critical tab appears first. → however, Tab priority may differ depending on the recipient (operational vs management)
• Using the comment functionalities in the presentation to provide navigation guidelines. → requires user action
• Create separate screen for each tab → maintenance effort

Suggested Improvement:

It would be very helpful if the presentation could memorize the last active tab position

Eg.

It displays the tab that was active when the screen was added to the presentation.

Thanks for your consideration,

Ibrahima,

Hello All
Doing translations in Board could be less tedious if :
*we could work by datamodel (at least have selectable information in columns)
*we could copy and paste translations from one environment to another
*Board would suggest existing translations straight away (in some cases, you'd have to do this several times) or use IA for translating
* we could sort the labels to be translated in alphabetical order

Hi all,

B14 screen shows light grey font in some place.

They are small and difficult to read for the user.

Would you consider any function to change the font property or dark mode for easy to read depend on the user?

Masa,

As per title, please allow the possibility to enter data on a label.

At the moment, when we lack a user-friendly way to insert data on a specific combination.

It could also be used to manage relationships and text cubes based on suggestions.

We are using B14.3 and still this Dynawrite object has a number of bugs and needs to be improved in many areas:

1. The toolbar cannot be docked. I first complained about this four years ago, still no improvement. https://community.board.com/discussion/14098/rich-text-box-could-the-toolbar-be-docked-please?utm_source=community-share
2. Click the W to download the narrative and it gives the user an error. This is because it picks all Dynawrite on he screen, even one used as a label.
3. When the screen is read-only (for users with read-only role), the scroll bars of the Dynawrite box do not work, the user cannot view all.
4. Select text inside the Dynawrite box, change to a header or other formatting, the cursor jumps to the top (the selected text does not keep focus).
5. The Dynawrite should have a built-in timestamp so that when a user updates the text, their name and timestamp is recorded. Currently this is done outside of the object, but this is per screen and not per Dynawrite box.
6. Over the years we continually have issues with the extraction of the narrative from Dynawrite objects.

We need the option to activate the autofit of:

• Dataviews Columns
• Flexgrid Columns
• Labels (needed for e.g. to create breadcrumbs links that lead to different pages depending on which part of the link you click. Example: @Contry \ @Region \ @City could be rendered with three labels on top of each other with three different go-to-screen or procedures that apply different selections to same screen)

Many other tools (e.g. Anaplan in the example below) offer the possibility to right-click on any cell of any report and "drill-through" on a table containing the history of changes for that specific record.

The MVP of this is feature:

Would be extremely valuable to increase transparency and explainability for both end-users and administrators of the system.

Currently, in Board this information is fragmented in different logs (Data Entry, Smart import, ect…) which:

• Are incomplete (there is no log reporting Dataflow and Datareader changes at the atomic level: specific coordinates, username/system admin, timestamp, Old Value/New Value, type of action (Data Entry, Data Read, Smart Import, Data Flow, …), Action identifier
• Create a dependency on the system admin or support team who are the only ones able to access and navigate these often far from clear logs

The result is that:

• End users: often perceive Board as a "Black Box" and keep excel backups as a safety measure
• Developers: With increased application complexity, it is extremely challenging to conduct root cause analysis and identify the source of bugs

The full Version of this feature:

Would allow the possibility to quickly restore previous values with one click to rectify incorrect changes at different level of granularity and perimeters

Give the possibility to Expande or Collapse all the aggregation groups with the same function present in Dataview.

Make the rows height proportional to the information you are currently viewing on the screen and if you scroll slowly between columns make the screen update accordingly.

At the moment the rows height is not changed when the user scroll slowly dataview.