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Able to use environment variables, %bss% %computername%, in srouce file screen in data reader
1. What is your idea? Able to use environment variables of cloud, %bss% %computername%, in srouce file screen in data reader 2. What specific problem are you trying to find a solution to, or what new scenario would this idea respond to? Currently we can use environment variables in data reader of procedures. To confirm…
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Add grouping function in procedure as entity and cube
1. What is your idea? Add grouping function in procdure as entity and cube section have group name. 2. What specific problem are you trying to find a solution to, or what new scenario would this idea respond to? It's easier to mange procedures if we have group function in procedure. 3. What workaround have you found and…
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Wildcards in printable report filenames
Exporting printable reports is limited in that the filename is always manually defined. Supporting wildcards in the filename like @date would be a huge improvement.
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Layout formatting
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Database and R serve
Today, Board allows to store data in a relational database. New features allow to connect to an R server in order to run R scripts. However, those servers, if used, are based elsewhere (on premise, or in the cloud). Therefore, the architecture is more complex and less efficient due to the time data goes from one place to…
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My View - Saving sort done from colmun header
My View may save - and restore - the column sorting option define by the user by clicking on column header when the option is enable on dataviews
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Hide Options in Sliding Toolbar for quick layout
It would be useful to be able to hide the quick layout options individually in the sliding toolbar like you can hide all the other buttons. Right now you can only show all or nothing.I am referring to the Data, Rows & Columns, Freeze Panes, and Numbers Scaling options.
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Microsoft Access ODBC Driver
I had an issue with the Access ODBC Driver until I found the right driver version, wich is: 14.00.7010.1000
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tool tip/note/comment per column
As we are using mostly abbreviations for column headings (KPIs etc.) - it would be great if there would be a tool tip functionality for columns. That it's possible that the end user will get shown per mouse over the description or long name of a column/KPI --> e.g. NS ACT --> tool tip shows NS ACT = Net Sales Actual and…
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Make Pattern base allocation & Deep Lock work natively together
Context : You have a block with data entry and it has both following features enable :* pattern allocation * Deep lockling If the user apply the pattern base allocation on the cell, it won't take into account the cell that are locked for that perimeter and erased the value. Idea : Have the option make them work together…
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Collapse Groups exported to excel add-in
Hello, When the “Collapse groups” is ticked in the Web client when designing a report and the report is exported to excel, the groups are not collapsed but extended. Is this how the functionality should work? Is it possible to export the data collapsed? Thank you for feedback, Tunde
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change user authentication type of existing user
When we started with BOARD, we had some companies abroad which were not connected to active directory --> so they had no windows user. That was the reason why we created quite a lot of users with password as authentication type. But over the years more and more companies are now connected to active directory - but the only…
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Export User permissions (selections on entities)
It would be great being able to export a list of all BOARD Users not only with Security Profile, Licence type, DB Profile but also with their specific permissions on entities in different databases. We do have 231 users in total and I am getting at least twice a year the question, who has access to what (which company,…
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Waterfall enhancement - Group bars
Hello, would it be possible for the user to dynamically select to group the small entities in the bar charts / axis into an "Other category" to not have all members in an entity displayed, while still having all the variances add up from start to End (e.g. values <x to group into one bar “Other”, so that only the material…
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Improve "Screens Object" pannel readability in design mode
Idea : * For pager and selector in design mode : display the name of dimension instead of object type or at least as tooltip on hover * For Tab, display Tab follow by the 1st Tab name * On hovering an object, have a dynamic and special highlight color it in the screen Why : Exemple : Users wants to visually reorder filters…
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"Selected Cells Information" available even if no block has data entry
Hi, Users on my last projet really like the feature available in "Lock and Spread" called "Selected Cells Information" where you have sum/average/min/max and would like to be able to use it even if the dataview is reporting only
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Possibility to show code and description of the entity day
Hi, it would be great to have the possibiliy to show either code or description of the entity day. Now it doesn't matter if you set show code or show description, because always description is displayed. I remeber former board versions where this was possible. Thanks and regards Thomas
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Mandatory dimensions in quick layout
Context - When designing data entry screens, we are often in the situation where we want to give a maximum flexibility to the end user to choose the most relevant axis. Quick layout is great for that. Issue - However we often have the situation where at least one dimension is mandatory, otherwise figures don't make sense.…
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More Procedures
It would be very helpful to have more options for procedures. Another action section labeled "Data View" with the ability to hide, apply sort, etc, would be helpful. Also, additions to the screen section to do screen formatting, like move chart to 171 left, label color to green etc.
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Multiple Screen printing configuration
Allow te capability to save more than 1 printing configuration in a screen. When screen export is set in a procedure, only one configuration is allowed. e.g. in a screen with graphs and tables, I would set 2 buttons , 1 to export a pdf with graphs only and 1 to export both tables and diagrams. Currently is not possible…
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Database name in DataEntry_YYYYMM.log
1) What is your idea? Provide the database name for each data entry in the data entry log file. 2) What specific problem are you trying to resolve? When the file C:\Board\Dataset\Log\DataEntry_YYYYMM.log is populated we can see only the cube name but not the name of the database. This is a problem if our application is…
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Excel Export: Support Excel Grouping
When exporting a layout with multiple entities by row it would be helpful to have the option to export the layout to excel including the groupings. This can be achieved by using the native Excel grouping (see attached picture).
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DataView scrolling: fix top entities
Hi, To ease the navigation in a data view with several entities by row and a large number of rows it would be helpful to have the option to choose that some top entities stay on top of the layout when scrolling. Assume we have the following row structure with entities A and B and entity A is set to be fixed on top. A1 B1…
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Warn Board users when cloud planned maintenance is about to start
We had a few cases with a customer having a user working on Board when the monthly cloud maintenance kicked off on the machine hosting the Board server. Although it is said on the SaaS agreement which Sundays we plan to patch their servers, and they communicate it to their usersbase, it can still happen that someone is…
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Transform rgb(rx,gx,bx) values to rgba(rx,gx,bx,1) automatically
Idea : When copy a rgb(rx,gx,bx) values and Board would parse it and convert to rgba(rx,gx,bx,1) correctly Most GFX charts and color picker tool work with format rgb but not with rgba which make copy/pasting in the absent of a corporate identity designer less convenient. Workaround : Currently you can copy paste…
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Quick Layout : Reference Trees + Drag & Drop
Idea : Instead of adding every single entity of a tree one by one and for each layout. Add the possibility to reference a tree instead and display pertinent* entities of the tree. Then when you've added a two new entities to your customer hierarchy for instance, you aren't forced to reopen the 54 layout and add. * With…
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Graphs auto alignment similar to MS office applications
Could we have some graphical way (like PowerPoint shows the lines) which helps us align the graphs, charts and dataviews on the screen? It becomes a bit cumbersome to change the position and size each time we want to adjust these.
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MOVE OBJECTS
Hello It would be fantastic if we could move objects using the 4 arrow keys of the keyboard
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Hide user or group name from chat list
1. What is your idea? Add option to hide user or group name which you used before from chat list. 2. What specific problem are you trying to find a solution to, or what new scenario would this idea respond to? When you use chat with a user or create chat group, these users and group name are kept shown and there is no…
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Tree object: Option to hide text block in pop up screen
Tree object: Option to hide text block in pop up screen 1. What is your idea? Add option to hide text block in a pop up screen which is shown when a mouse cursor is pointed. 2. What specific problem are you trying to find a solution to, or what new scenario would this idea respond to? In tree object, I would like to add…
