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SocialBoard-Sharing Posts (Images and Videos) and Social Networks Links
SocialBoard, the new space for sharing: * Quick posts. Simple post, or a more elaborate iconography or a video. Maybe to tell a customer story, or to highlight a product feature or simply an action note! * Share a link to a Social Media publication. * Tag your post, so everybody can fid it! * Make connections with people…
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Board Demo Zone
I want to recommend a New Board Demo Zone with the following characteristics: It is CloudBased. It means it it located on BoardCloud. It means that can be accessed from anywhere at anytime! It is an environment where you can demo "Any" Vertical Market (Example: Fashion Retail) or Any Vertical Function (Example: FCC.4.0).…
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Map object enhancement
It would be nice if countries and regions were automatically integrated in the Map object. This way, counties, regions, provinces, etc. could be colored in and you could zoom and move your map around and click on countries to get pop-up info or drill-through to something else. This way, no cockpit would be needed to color…
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Assume Zero for Loading Blanks to a Numeric Cube
Overview When loading data through an file datareader, I commonly see blanks in a CSV file. If I try to load this field to a numeric cube (Integer, Single, Double), I may see something odd. The datareader will run fine. There will not be any errors thrown. Since these fields are blank, no data is loaded, which is fine.…
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Blockchain Datareader
Background Blockchain projects represent a new datatype with some fascinating properties. These global, distributed, decentralized, immutable ledgers use cryptography to account for digital tokens. Just as we need to pull from databases and ascii files, loading a blockchain into BOARD could prove to be a helpful tool in…
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Make "Full Screen", Full Screen
I am looking into the idea of using transition containers to replicate PowerPoint presentations, but live in BOARD, allowing the presenter to drill through on screen and and further analyse information live during a presentation. One of the comments that has come up as an objection to this concept is the "eye distraction"…
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Excel Datareader
While I understand why CSV files can be more standardized and consistent for ETL processes, I think it's time to add Excel as an option for a datareader. A user can specify the filename, and tab name to be used for the datareader. Use Case * An excel file is produced and placed on a network share * A user clicks a button…
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FYTD in Dynamic Select
The Idea. To allow a FYTD to date option in a dynamic select. Why. Currently a dynamic select allows the user to be able to select the YTD based on a cube or the current date. For financial reporting purposes, I believe a FYTD would be more useful so having this option would be nice. Current process. Using a series of…
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Integrate drill through results in reports
Hi all, I want to use drill through results in dataviews and charts. If I'm not mistaken the drill through only opens a table with the results from the query. The idea is to integrate relational elements with the board elements as if they were the same. That way I can have a quick analysing tool with a small DB footprint…
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End user Error Message Visibility for Administrator
The Idea. To give Admin visibility of the individual error messages that can appear on the end-users screen (bottom right corner in client), this could be via a simple log file recording the time of message, the message, and the end user. Why. We have solutions developed for clients and at times they get an error message…
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Multi Client Selector Summary
THE IDEA I would like to suggest adding a feature which would allow a selector object to display only the total number of entity members available to a user when that user has been restricted in what they can see. WHY The present selector object displays the total number of members that exist within an entity. I have a…
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Web interface - Copy of presentations
Current situation These days we are training a lot of new users to the web interface of Board, and we're trying to make them use the "Presentation" feature. Very often, they ask how they can modify a presentation then save it as a new one, or if they can copy a presentation directly to a new one without opening it. Current…
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Warning message before loading a DB in memory
Hi all, following our discussion here: Full RAM Mode / Benchmarking : how much time does it take to load your DB in RAM ? Issue In a development environment, we are often in the situation where we have to duplicate databases to carry out testing, parallel developments, and so on. A number of similar and big databases can…
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Background colour of web environment
I have had this request now quite a few times from customers, they would like to customise their web environment more according to their company requirements. The company logo and the background are a great start, but some of my customers have a problem with the Board blue at the top. Specially when their company colours…
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Refresh of multiple screen/tabs
In 2 projects that we have developed in Desigual, 2 different group of users have asked us the same wish: To be able to refresh all the open tabs (since they use Board Web) at the same time, either when you perform a Data Entry or when you click a "Refresh" button. They usually work with 2-3 tabs open, using 1 of them for…
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In-Line Drill Down (excel style drill in native BOARD)
This is idea is essentially to provide the ability/option to drill down in BOARD the same way that it works in Excel with the office Add-in. When drilling down on a layout in Excel it does it what I call 'in-line', in that it expands/inserts down to show the detail in line. It doesn't have a drill pop-up like in native…
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Require Single Member Selection on Selector
I would like the ability to configure a Selector to require a single member selection on an Entity. Both on screen and in Interactive Selection procedure steps. Very often screens, navigation, and procedures are designed to work on one member of an entity at a time. For example a trigger in a budgeting application should…
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enhance dataflow understanding for cubes' structures: new tab in dataflow layout
1. What is your idea? the idea is to help the developer who designs dataflows in procedures and help him understanding at a glance which entity structures from both factor and target cubes are involved in one dataflow. This understanding is very important for designing and maintening dataflows. * I would wish a new tab in…
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Using both rules and a hierarchy in a presentation by row
Hi all, Very often in our design choices we face a choice between a hierarchy model and a "flat" model, as explained in the knowledge base article Alternative approaches to modelling Finance Reporting in BOARD Most of the time we can manage with one approach or the other, but in some cases it leads to something more…
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Enrich dataview formatting options to approach IBCS® standards
1. What is your idea? Enrich the dataview's format settings. In particular the block-specific #format settings of a layout. Currently, the several formatting options I know are : * use row templates for the ByRow entities * use block formatting options (Dataview Menu > Layout > Block configuration > Format): I can set…
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Drill to Window/Popup
When I drill on a DataView a popup opens. When I drill to a screen a new screen opens (either in the same tab or an additional tab). It would be useful to be able to drill to a window so my new screen appears on top of the existing screen, but as a window. This way I can move the window around and still view the screen I…
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Collapse & Drill by columns
Often we experience the need to create huge reports that contain several blocks with entities by column. This kind of layouts can generate an high number of columns, and this could have an impact on performances and usability as well. In the following example, having two cubes and two years selected, the detail by month…
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BOARD Community Navigation frustrations
I am finding it increasingly frustrating when reading through forums. I am used to using forums, scrolling down, selecting an article to read and then returning to the point in the 'stack' that I left by using a browser 'back' button. However, on the BOARD forum, I will scroll through a forum and select an article to read.…
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(SOLVED) Count contents of a BLOB cube
*** See solution in comments below *** Original Idea: I would like to be able to count the contents of BLOB cubes - I want to know how many records they hold and I want to compare this information. To give some context. I have a blob cube which contains property images. Not all properties have images. For those that do,…
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Copy of BLOB Cubes in DataFlows
Hi All, at the moment it is not possible to copy blob Cubes in dataflows. It would be great when a simple copy of BLOB Cubes in DataFlow would be possible. It also would be great if the target BLOB Cube could have some more or leass dimensions than the source BLOB Cube. Regards, FabFro
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Web GUI for Server Config and Adula Params
Hi All, We have the following situation: You can edit the functions od BOARD and board server via the serverconfig GUI, via boardengine.exe.config (XML), via server_config_v2.xml (XML) and via adulaparams.xml (XML). The current situation brings some challenges: * There is no GUI for BoardEngine.exe.config and…
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Direct Data Entry into a Cube in a DynaWrite
I can currently enter data into an RTF cube that is used in a DynaWrite Layout, but this is only possible if I set up a data entry enabled DataView with the RTF cube (see Add Narrative below): I would like to be able to write my text directly into the data entry enabled cube in the DynaWrite (i.e. 'Project narrative',…
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Time Functions & Entity Description
I think it would be nice if the description of the entities in row / column considered time functions of the cubes (eg offset-1 on Month, with selected month Jan.18 shows Dec.17).
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display existing procedure's name while renaming it
1. What is your idea? Simplify a small task that happens sometimes : renaming existing procedures. Currently the procedure's name is always empty when I click on "rename" I wish the existing name of the procedure would be displayed, so I can directly amend it. 2. What specific problem are you trying to find a solution to,…
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Previous Selection
Hi all, have you also come across the desire to go back to the previous selections? Okay, Board will let you reset the selection on a specific entity and then you can select something else or you can use a vertical list and click on another member. But how cool would it be to be able to go some steps back? Example: I am…