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Re: October CommunityCast and Badge Opportunity
I WISH we had an agent who could help with that 🤣.
Re: October CommunityCast and Badge Opportunity
Scout helped me. If only I could get it to do laundry! 😀
US Economic Outlook: October 2025
As the holiday season approaches, Board’s October Economic Outlook finds a rare balance: supply chains are running smoothly, inventories are well managed, but consumer sentiment is softening.
Principal Economist Natalie Gallagher outlines why 2025’s holiday demand will hinge on conversion rather than availability. While discretionary spending remains positive, it’s concentrated among higher-income consumers—creating both opportunities and risks for retailers and manufacturers.
What’s covered:
- Latest data on supply chain pressure and inventory trends
- ISM manufacturing and services insights
- Consumer sentiment and spending patterns by income group
- Scenarios for holiday sales growth and key planning implications
Understand how selective demand will shape Q4 performance—and how agile planning can turn volatility into advantage.
Re: Data Export Functionalities
Yes. you can use sobstitution formulas, like @User, within your path/file name.
Re: Freeze Pane in data view
Hello,
Thanks it was indeed this issue.
Thanks for the help,
Regards,
Kajal
Kajal
Re: Cube Variances: Myth or Legend?
There used to be a board presentation slide where this was sold as a useful feature for planning and forecasting.
Unfortunately, this feature never really worked properly (at least in my tests) and seems to have been removed again :-(
The help page does not provide any information about it either (anymore).
Re: Restricting User Administration via Subscription Hub (Preventing Self-Privilege Escalation)
Hi @CarolinDjeri ,
unfortunately, that is not possible natively—each user having administrative rights to change roles and/or profiles can ultimately change their own permissions.
You might want to use a different approach involving the SCIM interface. You can find more information here in our manual
Best,
Helmut
Re: screen to allow user to assign Brand to a Product.
Hi @Kajal
There’s actually no need to create a cube for storing that information.
You can simply use a tech cube By the Product entity and hide it (Because board Don't allow us to have an entity in the first bloc).
In your screen:
- Set Product by row with “Show All” enabled.
- Place Product Brand in the layout.
- Activate data entry on Product Brand.
This way, the user can assign or modify the brand directly, and it will map the relationship accordingly.
Here’s an example we use where we map Indicator to a Type of Indicator using this exact logic 👇
Hope this helps!
Best,
Akrem
Re: Is it possible to configure UK number format in BOARD
Hi @ANKITA SAHA ,
There are two things that influence this: on the one hand, the user's login language or culture, and on the other hand, the settings in the Windows Control Panel under Time and Language → Language and Region → Regional Format.
Best,
Helmut
Cube Variances: Myth or Legend?
Hi Board Community,
In Board 12, I see the Cube Variance options under Cube → Variances (e.g., LastDataFlow, LastDataRead, Minute, Day, etc.).
From my understanding, enabling something like LastDataFlow should make Board automatically store a snapshot of a cube’s data before each Dataflow execution that writes to it, allowing us to compare “current” vs “previous” cube values without manual versioning.
However, in my testing, the variance data never updates, even when a Dataflow overwrites the cube.
Also, in Board 14, I don’t see this “Variances” section at all.
Has this feature been deprecated, changed, or replaced in recent versions?
If not, what are the exact trigger conditions for a variance (like LastDataFlow) to update correctly?
Thanks in advance!
