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Export to XLSX - Overcome limitations of layout export with huge datasets
Idea: We use the export functionality of Board intensively. For the layout export (procedure layout export or export to excel) it is annoying that we have to decide for the row entities whether we just want to see the code OR the description OR both concatenated when the default settings doesn’t match to our needs for the…
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Event-driven Subscribe and SendTo functions
Hi all, We are currently analyzing the usefulness of the Subscribe and SendTo functionalities for our users, but the same question comes back every time regarding scheduling. Indeed our data is published monthly (e.g. Sales at D+2, OPEX at D+8, Allocation results at D+10) but in practice it is not a fixed day in the month.…
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Chart to Chart Drill-Down in pop-up window
It would be great having Chart to Chart drill-downs in a pop-up window like having it in dataviews --> the drilldown from chart-bars (stack) currently opens a table in a pop-up --> but we would need again a chart showing within the relationship tree a more detailed entity to the initially shown dimension. Currently this is…
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Broadcasting variable parts
We are facing the requirement, that users, which are receiving mails + attachment (xlsx) from BOARD-Broadcaster, would need dynamic parts in the mail-header, file-name of attachment and parts of the mail-text. e.g. @date, @month would be really helpful
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XLSX-export --> selection export with one dimension
It would be great if the option "export selections" when exporting a dataview to Excel, would be already available when having one dimension in the dataview --> currently it's only possible when two dimensions are used in the dataview
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Userprofiles - default selections
it would be very useful having a possibility setting default selections for users --> here are some examples: 1) we do have our KPIs in Local & Group Currency - and our subsidiaries would prefer getting per default local currency values - without a need of selecting each time. 2) Additionally controlling visibility of…
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CHARTS - Functions DATA and ROWS & COLUMNS
It would be very helpful/useful having the data and rows & columns functionality also for charts - not only for dataviews. These would enable much more flexibility for the user.
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Allow Temporary Cubes to be used in If Then Else action
Quite often specific cubes are created to hold the results of a logical test that can be performed through dataflow. This cube would then be used in an If The Else procedure action to determine the actions to run based on the outcome of the test. Currently, the If Then Else action cannot use temporary cubes saved in the…
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Integrate authorizations / DB Profiles in Impact analysis
Hi, the "Impact analysis" is a really useful tool. However one item is missing from the analysis regarding the authorizations, it's the database profile. For example, if I need for technical reasons to clear an entity, I would need to double check if that entity is used as a select in a database profile. Integrating this…
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The option to hide and show containers in realtime
Hi, It would be nice to have the option to show and hide containers without a screen refresh. This way you can add for example your selectors in a container and with a small button on your screen you can show or hide the container. This would give you more screen space because your navigation and filters can be hidden. See…
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Better integration between Board web-client and Office Add-in
The current office add-in offers a good integration between Board and Microsoft office products, however the current add-in his design to work better with the windows version than the wed version of Board. It can be improved with the following: 1.Allowing copy/paste of Dataview layout(design) from the Web client to the…
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Board Chat Management
On the Board web client we have encouraged our users to communicate more through the chat. We have found that with proper user metadata set, and group chat, it can be used as a powerful communication tool. However it has limitation that reduce it's potential and should be addressed in future evolutions. 1. Better chat…
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Interactive selection - Option to display Code/Description or both
Hi, Currently, the "interactive selection" procedure step displays code and description on the pop-up window. It would be nice to have the option to choose (at procedure level) to display either Code, Description or both (similarly to how the Selectors work).
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Web Client - Add Copy formating Settings
Like in windows client, it would be helpful a "Copy formatting Settings" option for all the elements you can create in a screen. At this moment, the way to reproduce this functionality is to "copy-paste" a formatted current element and edit it.
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Refresh partially instead of full screen
When we have a lot of data views/charts/etc. on a screen, refreshing the full screen from the procedure (Refresh Screen) can take some time. And in some cases full screen refresh is not necessary. There are certain scenarios when the procedure is executed, it's only impacting certain sections e.g. data views/charts. I…
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Add job start time to Board logs
1) What is your idea? To have the ability to track the start time of procedures and data readers (Board jobs) so any jobs that run for longer than a certain amount of time can be identified and someone alerted to investigate whether the job has become stuck or is hanging. 2) What specific problem are you trying to resolve?…
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Confirm Board accessed source system in ProcedureExecution_YYYYMM.log
1) What is your idea? To be able to confirm whether Board accessed a source system or not when doing root cause analysis for an issue or debugging a Board implementation. 2) What specific problem are you trying to resolve? An example of trying to do root cause analysis for an issue where knowing whether or not Board has…
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Timestamp in SQLError_YYYYMM.log
1) What is your idea? Add a timestamp to the SQLError_YYYYMM.log error log to capture the exact time an error occurred. 2) What specific problem are you trying to resolve? We are trying to use the error log for debugging and we need a timestamp for when each error happens in order to do this. 3) What workaround have you…
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Option to prevent saturation of an entity and corrupted data
Add an option to prevent datareader from loading data into a saturated entity and a second option to stop if creating an member would result in a saturated entity. PS : If this should be separated options fromi"On Error Stop" since we might want all rejected data logged into .log file and not stop at the 1st one, yet not…
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There are cases where the calculation cost item is not calculated in real time
Issue:When there are many columns, there are cases where the calculation cost item is not calculated in real time. Request:Please improve so that the algorithm calculation works correctly regardless of the number of columns.
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Comment input column
Issue:The comment input column is not displayed correctly after the 51st column of the table. Request:Please improve so that the comment input column works correctly regardless of the number of columns.
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Pre-aggregated value (version)
Issue:The pre-aggregated value (version) cannot be created for the cube for data entry, and the screen response cannot be improved. Request:Please improve so that pre-aggregated values (versions) can be created for cubes that input data.
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Delete saved Nexel Procedure actions which are not shown in the list after change layout
1. What is your idea? Add function to delete saved Nexel Procedure actions which are not shown in the list after change layout 2. What specific problem are you trying to find a solution to, or what new scenario would this idea respond to? Currently, if you change layout in a data view, saved Nexel Procedure actions…
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Export Selections in Flattened Export mode
Hi all, In the current Excel export option, there's a very practical option to "export selections" along with the file. This is very useful for people using this data afterwards to keep track of the perimeter. However, it's not available when using the "flat" export. Idea : add this option for flat export (if necessary,…
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Task Manager Web
It would be useful to see the task manager for all users also in the web browser and not only into Board Client. This will allow all user to understand if the procedure is still running also after a connection break.
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Manage Period Offset in Time Functions
1. What is your idea? When using the Time Functions I would like to make it more straight forward and easier to understand how the function works. I would like to be able to set the period offset AND tell Board that this will be in Months, Years or days, or any other time entity. 2. What specific problem are you trying to…
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Localization for all screens
We would like to use localization for all the screens and capsules that we use. We have a lot of items in the Collext text list. This is not manageable. It would be very helpful if we could identify what capsule, screen, cube etc a certain item in the list is referring to. Could this be added as a feature request?
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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…
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Option to remove blue box next to selector
1) What is your idea? To allow users to remove the blue colour band for selectors on a chart so the charts look cleaner and neater. 2) What specific problem are you trying to resolve? Allow users to remove the blue colour band for selectors or to be able to define a different selector colour. The blue band doesn't add…
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Option to display labels for axis
1) What is your idea? For Board to have the ability to add labels to the axis of charts so the reader knows what information is represented by the axis. 2) What specific problem are you trying to resolve? To inform readers what values the various axis represent, especially if there are similar reports in the tab but some…