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Extract Cubes in Parquet-File
1. What is your idea? Board has multiple steps to extract data from cubes: Extract Cube Export Data View to file Export Dataset Extract all cubes All these steps save data as text or csv-files. We could save disk-space and increase performance by using parquet-files. Head-to-head comparison CSV Parquet Row-based storage…
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New Time Function "Year End-" and "Year Start Value"
1. What is your idea? The Idea is, to have additional time functions to easily get the values for year end and year start, also for previos years. 2. What specific problem are you trying to find a solution to, or what new scenario would this idea respond to? Independent from the current time selection, I want to display…
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Default Entity Member Labeling Convention to Excel Tab upon Export
When exporting a Board screen to excel and choosing to page by a given entity that within Board has been set to "code" as the default setting for that entity, the exported tab pages within the excel document appear as the description of the entity member and not the desired code of the entity member. It would be helpful to…
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Hide Screen List configurable depending on users
hide screen list options is a ON/OFF option it could be useful have the capability to deactivate it for some users (e.g. administrators or process owners for an application). It could be made on different levels: as default, in security profile settings (e.g for administrators) at capsule level, defining exceptions on some…
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Close Message Option
It would be great if the option existed to close the informative Board messages that appear on the screen (example below). Although they only appear for 3-4 seconds, it can be frustrating when trying to work quickly as sometimes the next button you want to click is behind this message. It would be helpful to be able to…
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Deleting entity elements made easy
There is already a guide on "How to remove obsolete entity members". However, this process should be much easier. It would be great if entity members can be deleted easily by hand. Especially, in big databases that would be a huge relief because it wouldn't be necessary to reload the entity and cubes. As a bonus, it would…
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"Min" and "Max" as aggregation-functions
It would be very helpful to be able to select "Min" and "Max" as aggregation-functions on an entity, in addition to the existing "distinct count", "average" and "sum" (see second screenshot). Right now it is possible to display the min- and max-values as a row total (see lower dataview in the first screenshot), but not if…
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Ability to set the color of background of the value on a card
Currently the background color can be set for all elements except for the background where the value is shown. This does not allow for the card to be to fully formatted to the company branding, as shown with the white box around the number. My client would like to set this to transparent. While this can be achieved with a…
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Improve Board in Spanish language
Hello, Current Board in Spanish (especially anything for power users and admins) has some very low quality translations and some very confusing terms. We have some important clients that use Board in Spanish and request an improvement of the translations.
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Select entities to clear in a cube
Today we have the possibility, in a Procedure, to clear the Cube with existing selection ("Use current selection") or clear the whole Cube (default). If you only want to clear on specific Entities you will need to setup a save & restore selection and/or de-select & re-select specific Entities. Suggestion: Give the…
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New screen object: Multi-Selector
Hi All, during a presentation of a process mining tool I saw a pretty neat object and thought that maybe this could be replicated in Board: A selector that allows you to choose the entity you want use in a drop-down. What could this look like? The object would be divided into an upper and a lower part. In the upper part…
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Data Entry in column
in long tables we have have an option of using ">" for multiple data entry for each row how about an option to enter multiple data in each column????
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Option for logical/automated selection of Procedure on a DataView/other button
Giving developers the option to set-up a selection criterium (Algorithm) which runs one of multiple saved Procedures in the background. (see screenshot) That is to be seen as an addition to the manual selection of the Procedure by the user currently available.
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Standard "integrated" copy function for e.g., Versions, Scenarios etc.
Hi all, it would be great to have a integrated copy function. Use Case: During a planning cycle we want to copy a Version 1 into a Version 2 (Entity in a Cube). Therefore, we have to create a procedure, define temporary cubes without the entity Version, add for nearly each cube a step with temporary cube not dimensioned…
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Option "Disable Unbalanced Hierarchy" should work "per block" and not on all the dataview blocks
We have switch our main entity "P&L" to unbalanced. This entity is used in hundreds of dataview. Some dataview are pretty basic and unbalanced is working as expected. However we also have a lot of medium / high complexicity dataview with hidden factors cubes, or tech cubes. In that case, some business cubes need to have…
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trigger broadcast functionality via procedure launcer
Our customer has the broadcast license and is currently sending content critical time-controlled status reports. We would liked to trigger this automatically at the end of the data preparation with the Procedure Launcher and not (necessarily) delayed (since the data preparation has to be finished) by the broadcast…
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Integrated technical documentation functions
1. What is your idea? The Idea is, to have the possibility to directly document the application within Board. For example: Entity Comment possibility for each Entity technical name Cubes Naming Convention field / technical name possibility to comment (maybe overall and in addition on Cube Version level) Value explanation…
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extract all cubes > create log
Hi, when you execute an "extract all cubes" procedure action, no log is created. it would be really useful to have a detailed log about all the cubes extracted, in order to be able to check if everything worked as expected. consider that the "reload all cubes" already creates a detailed log on the reloaded cubes, so…
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Overview ApiQuery calls (# of requests) in Cloud Administration Portal
Hi all, it would be wonderful to have an overview in the cloud admin portal how many API requests you actually use per day. Since there is a limit of 500 requests per day, this would help the customer understand if they need to think about increasing the limit soon. Thanks a lot!
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Formatting options for Menu object
In order to make Board applications even more beautiful many POCs or pre-sales demos make elaborate use of labels to create a menu that gives the user the feel of workflow. See below example. If the menu object had some abilities to configure the style and formatting this could concievably be done with the menu object.…
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Cloud Hosts- Planned Maintenance Schedules
Scheduled maintenance for OS level updates takes place on a fixed Sunday of each month on each Board Cloud instance (unless otherwise communicated by Board). Details of the schedules can be found here. Currently, details of this window are not displayed to administrator users anywhere within the platform which can often…
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Extract/Import Trees Unsorted
Hello, I'm sure any admin of BOARD has faced the issue needing to refresh Development Cubes/Entities with new info from Production. I'm sad to say that this process is FAR less straightforward than it would seem. It is very frustrating to always have to follow the steps of : A) Remove all sorting of entities (Production)…
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Do not replicate entities when we flatten the entities by row
When we have multiple entities by row and we flatten at a certain level, we would like not to replicate the members of an entity and merge the cells with this entity, as in the image attached.
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Maintain cursor in the selected dataview cell after screen refresh
In large dataviews with many columns, when a user has a cell selected (in one of the columns to the right after scrolling the dataview), we would like them to be able to run a procedure from a button, and that after a screen is refreshed, the dataview would not jump back to the first column, but would show the dataview as…
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Export to excel from HTML5 with layout
I have been asked if the export to excel from the HTML interface can contain the layout details. So when you connect using the BOARD Add in on the exported data view, you can open the layout in Excel and the configuration is there. When you export to excel from the BOARD client, the layout configuration is available when…
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Export to Excel - improved file-naming
It would be useful to enhance the functionality of exports to excel (and pdf) to enable more meaningful filenames to be created. My suggestion is that there should (in Web) be 2 new properties associated with each object, for which export to excel (and pdf) would use as part of exported filenames. This would improve the…
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'Exit Screen' Procedure step to close tabs in web client
I am proposing a web client behaviour for the existing 'Exit Screen' procedure step. Currently this procedure step has no action in the Web Client, however within the Windows Client, upon execution of this step, the current open screen is closed fully, rather than navigated away from. It would be ideal if this step had the…
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Entity: possibility to manage several descriptions by member
It would be very useful to be able to allocate to an entity member a second or third description (e.g. short desc / long desc. / extra-long desc), and then be able to select one of these in screen objects (dataviews, labels...).
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Entity order / user view
In the database settings you can define the user view / order of entities. However this only affects the entity pane in the layout configuration! The entity order should also affect the entity order in Pager/Selector menu as well as Drill Down and screen/layout selection window.
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Entity format with multiple entities within a dataview
There are situations when the customer asks for entity format to be applied when there are multiple entities by rows (for example parents of an entity or groupings of different ones). As we all know, the entity formatting works only when we have a single entity by row, and the moment another entity is added there is a…
