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Copy paste should work on all combinations that are seen in Dataview
1. What is your idea? Copy pasting data into data entry enabled layout should work for all rows. It used to work in client but doesn't work in Board 12.1 anymore. 2. What specific problem are you trying to find a solution to, or what new scenario would this idea respond to? If users have huge excels to directly copy into…
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Undo option while data entry to clear last cell input instead of all the inputs
1. What is your idea? Undo option should clear the last cell that was input instead of clearing all the inputs. It should basically function the same way undo option works in excel. 2. What specific problem are you trying to find a solution to, or what new scenario would this idea respond to? Currently, the undo option…
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Add custom layout option to be available for dataflow in procedure
* What is your idea? In Board 10, we were able to directly add the dataflow layout during a breakpoint and check the values. Starting Board 12, we have to now manually copy the layout and paste that layout at a particular step. * What specific problem are you trying to find a solution to, or what new scenario would this…
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Screen export should look as is in excel
* What is your idea? An output screen having multiple dataviews when exported form different tabs/ sheets in excel. Instead, it should be seen the same as we see on the screen, i.e., one below the other and with the same format. As of now when we export the screen because it forms multiple tabs/ sheets, clients are having…
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Entity Format template should be applicable at all levels
* What is your idea? Entity formatting if selected as default should be applicable on all levels if used in a dataview. For example, if I have 3 dimensions in my dataview and the view is collapsed, the entity format fails. I see a gray background even if the view is formatted. Also, the decimals/ prefix/ suffix don’t stick…
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Starting row definition in ASCII DR
* What is your idea? I have come across a situation where the client wants to load an ASCII file but the data row doesn't start from Row 1. As these files contain Financials information, manual intervention is to be avoided. This looks like an ask from a few customers and it would be great if a feature is included in Board…
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Map entity to column headers in ASCII Data reader
Hi, I have come across a few clients who have excel data available with them, its easy to ask the clients to convert it into a .csv file and load it into Board. But then we have a specific format to follow here. Data should always be by columns, i.e., headers should be in columns and members in rows. Instead if we can…
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Row Totals(Grand Totals and also Sub totals) on top of Dataview
Row totals if we can get on top of dataview would have been great. With Summer release I see that there is a feature, which allows the user to see grand totals on top of the dataview, but the sub totals still remains at the bottom. Its an ask from a few customers I have been working with to get the sub totals at the top,…
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multiple entity selection box
A new object would be great - a kind of container where it's possible adding more than one entity for selection. with all current available selection-objects it's only possible defining one entity. we do have currently screens with more than 20 selection-entities - and we are grouping the selectors via panels... but this…
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Exclude members in selector in a layout
At the moment, for Layout selection the possibility to exclude some members is not available. Could you add this option, as it exists on other selection in screen (or procedure) ?
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Formating private subscription mails
Hello, is it possible for the administrator to format the mail body of the private subscriptions of the users and to change the text of the mail footer? At the moment all of our private subscriptions are signed with "BOARD Subscription Service".
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Trigger Broadcasting via API
1) What is your idea? Trigger Broadcasting via an API, using the API User 2) What specific problem are you trying to resolve? We are triggering Board procedure as part of the nightly process that runs every day. The Board procedure loads data from the backend system (that calls procedure via API when the data is ready for…
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Optimization of board usability
Hello community, here are a few points/functionalities that could improve usability of board: * Implement a context based help directly in the application In the current setup there is basically no help functionality within the application. That makes it quite difficult sometimes to solve issues in a fast way since many…
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Optimization of formatting functionalities
Hello community, here are a few points/functionalities that could improve formatting functionalities in board: * Allow text variables in block headers We would like to use text variables in block header (e.g. @Year). Currently we are using workarounds to solve this (@selection if possible (a specific refer-to in block is…
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Optimization of selection functionalities
Hello community, here are a few points/functionalities that could improve selection functionalities in board: * Allow flexible ranges in screen selection At the moment there is no way for a "native" range selection of a screen. If you would like to work with a range you alway need to select individually entities (using…
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Optimization of the board administration
Hello community, here are a few points/functionalities that could improve the administration of board: * Monitoring / Logging: Integrate the logging directly into the application (getting away from the txt-logging). Especially when it comes to the execution of procedures it would be very helpful to get more details (last…
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A new home for selectors/pagers to offer more space on the development area
Hi Community Members, do you have the same situation like we have with cluttered reports because of many selectors and big dataviews to show? Please feel free to add your ideas or solutions in the comments below. current situation The selectors/pagers etc. which has to be placed on the development area steal the space for…
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Vertically align with data entry
Hello, in our solutions it would be really useful to apply the vertically align option keeping active the data entry. In this way would be possible to plan with metrics on the row. Many thanks, Giulia
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Multiple MyView versions
Hello, regarding the MyView feature it would be really useful to allow users to save more than one version of a given screen. In this way, starting from a unique layout, user can save different versions of the layout without asking for the implementation of different screens/tabs. Many thanks, Giulia
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Export Data Model Structure to Excel
When we create the data model documentation or when is necessary to analyze the data model is very useful to export the Impact Analysis result or from the data model, would be very useful to have one action that exports the "cube/entities/data readers/procedures" list, therefore is very useful to create documents based on…
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Impact Analyse readable for Powerusers
In our company the PowerUsers design the screens for our other users. The Developers only create Entitys, Relationships, DataReaders and Cubes. It would be very helpful if the PowerUsers can get access to the Impact Analyse to get an overview over your database strukture. My Idea ist to grant the access over the permission…
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Export Daten mit Info der Kopf- und Dataview-/Grafikobjekt Selektion
Hello everyone, often data still has to be exported. However, the selection of the data is not automatically specified. Therefore we always copy them manually from a label (@Selection). I think it is important that the selection is automatically transferred. For example, the header selection could be in cell A1 of the…
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Adding a system message when a transparency value greater than 1 is entered in RGBA section
When a transparency value greater than 1 is manually entered in RGBA color section (i.e. rgba(36,55,131,255)) on a layout, Board accepts it and the color is considered valid. Instead, when exporting the object via standard mode in Excel format you obtain an error message and the export procedure fails. The error is due to…
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Filter by relevant entities in the capsules
hi, It would be really helpful if it were possible to filter the entities for each capsule. This means that within the select each capsule would only display entities that are relevant to that capsule.
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Allow Data View to ignore format settings
Current situation: In Board Data model, designers have the option to define a Format for specific entities. Once set this format will impact each data view created using cubes with these entities. Limitations: The format setting is acting as master for all data view, this prevent to have a different format for specific…
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Impact Analysis - SQL/ASCII identifier
Hi, The impact analysis tool is very helpful, but I'd like to propose an improvement which will increase it's usability: the inclusion of a data reader type next to or as part of the connected object column. It's not possible to determine if an entity/cube which is connected to a data reader is being used in a…
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Simplify DataFlow's - Remove Calculation Domains
It would be very useful if you define a dataflow which is e.g. c=a*b or any other algorithm that this dataflow always does the calculation described in the field for those combination that exist without having to think about to extend a calculation domain. The problem now is if you flag several dimension in the calculation…
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Simple but improved user authorisation possibilities
Problem: If you use several databases, then you have to create a “Profile” for every possible combination of databases, at the moment. For example: If you have 2 Databases, then you have to create Profile_1 for all users, which are authorised for database 1, Profile_2 for all users, which are authorised for database 2 and…
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Database name in ProcedureExecution_YYYYMM.log
1) What is your idea? Provide the database name for each procedure in the procedure execution log file. 2) What specific problem are you trying to resolve? When the file C:\Board\Dataset\Log\ProcedureExecution_YYYYMM.log is populated we can see only the procedure name but not the name of the database. This is a problem…
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Collapse unbalanced hierarchies entities in dataview
Hello, With unbalanced hierarchies entities, it is possible to collapse (more or less) in selectors, but not in dataviews directly. Would it be possible to add the collased functionnality in dataviews for the next releases please? Thanks
