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Improve the 'Cube list' in dynamic selection
Hopefully this is already on the list for improvements somewhere, but currently cubes are ordered by their index number in the list for a Dynamic Select (web version), even though it displays their name rather than index number. I'm going to guess that almost no one uses index, and everyone uses names. It would be better…
DEFAULT SETTINGS IMPROVEMENTS
Hi community I've identified some areas that in my opinion could be slighly improved to make development more efficient. here they are: 1. When a new ascii data reader is being created, the dafult path is always C:\Board\... even if the default server path is e.g. D: \Board...It would be nice if the sugegsted path in data…
Disable BOARD Menu in Web Client / General Start-Screen
Hi, we want our users to navigate in our own structure. That’s possible and easy to build and administrate with the current tools. But when it comes to the Web Client we have the left site BOARD menu. I know that some of the options can be disabled, but not the capsules browser. We don't want to use the capsules browser. I…
Improving security management through easier maintenance of profiles
Hi everyone, As I already discussed with some of our Board France friends (Andrea Masiero especially), I found that Board is missing some key features in terms of security management. Some of them have workarounds through the so-called "Tilde Database" system, but this is not usable for all customers and it was not usable…
SECURITY MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENTS
i community Here are some ideas for a better management of securities. Profiles selections view: see immediatly the active selection of the profile/account (if any), placed in an added column near the profile name. Every time I have to check the selection applied I have to open the select panel by each line I want to…
Information policy needs to be improved / Share information about upcoming BOARD versions
Federica Antonelli, Leone Scaburri, Fabio Donatellis In general it would be helpful to get more and above all faster information about changes and upcoming features / releases. For example: a document by Antonio Speca was published for all Boardville 2018 participants ("The way to B11.pdf"). This could be a very useful…
Data View - Hide Grand Total
Add in graphic options of data view the option "hide grand total". In some cases it could be useful. See the picture attached: this report is by currency / company. here I want to see the total by each currency but not the grand total (sum of different currencies, no sense) Workaround: set same colour for grand total…
Dynamic Header Names
It would be great if the headers, mainly for dataviews, could be more dynamic. Variables like previous month, previous year(@Month, @PYMonth, @PreviousMonth) would be great!
Auto-Updating Version of BOARD Office Add-In
Hi All, not sure how many community members are affected by this, but at least for me it would be a great help, if there was an automatic update function (just like we have in the client) also for the Office Add-In. The need to deinstall one version and install another every time you connect to a different Board Server is…
Improved DataView formatting configuration
It should be possible, from the DataView settings/configuration screen to: 1 embolden/italicise the axis titles 2 left/right/centralise the axis columns My thanks to interested typ for suggesting I do this - lol, that WAS a long time ago . Better late than never!
Use Block Format in Web
Symbol Before and Symbol After block format settings should be displayed when hovering over elements in maps, treemaps, bar charts, pie charts and doughnuts. Even in latest version, 10.3.0.50803, they do not. Instead, as a workaround, it is necessary to add a manual Block Heading, repeating the Block name but with the…
Display missing Chart Hover over values
In Desktop Board when you hover over a Chart (Doughnut) with a layout containing a Count Cube and Vertical % Ranking, the Count and % are displayed. However, in Web, the value of the Count is not displayed. Web version of Board should, where-ever possible, provide the same chart functionality as Desktop version, otherwise…
Display Screen List correctly
In latest version, 10.3.0.50803, the Screen List, when displayed, is partially masked by a menu object of the current screen. It is not therefore possible to use the Search function as previously. This was not a problem in earlier version. Please correct.
Make visible "by row" and "show all" option in Dataflow
As you might have noticed, dataflow behave differently if you create the layout directly or you copy it from and existing report having sometihing by row and flag show all set. Would be nice to have it visible directly in dataflow configuration instead of setting/viewing it only when you copy and paste back to a report. I…
Identify procedures that utilise a cube
The existing Search functionality in capsules can be utilised to easily identify usage of a cube in screens and capsules.. However, the search does not return any results for use within a procedure or data reader. This functionality will be very useful when trying to identify how and which procedures or data readers update…
Data View Columns Width faster configuration
The data view columns width is set 120 as default and adjust columns width sometimes is not "comfortable". Especially in large data view some options may be useful: - set a different default width and an option to apply it to all blocks or to selected ones. - have a shortcut key to open the width config panel (e.g. CTRL+W)…
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…
Waterfall with "Switch row/column" option : allow to define a starting point / end point.
Hi team, when using the watefall chart, the "Switch row/column" is a very useful option to define each block of the waterfall through specific cubes/formulas. My typical use is a "margin bridge" with the split of price, mix, volume and exchange rates effects, a classic of business controlling :) When I build it, I miss the…
Upload custom colour palette
1) What is your idea? To have the ability in Board to upload a custom colour palette, such as a company or brand colour scheme, which then can be selected and automatically applied to charts. 2) What specific problem are you trying to resolve? To make it easier to apply brand colours to reports. Also, by offering users a…
Option to change storage drive in File Upload functionality in Cloud
1. What is your idea? Add option to change storage drive in File Upload functionality in Cloud or change storage drive C to Z for File Upload in Cloud 2. What specific problem are you trying to find a solution to, or what new scenario would this idea respond to? In current File Upload functionality, files are uploaded to C…