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Extract Cubes in Parquet-File
1. What is your idea? Board has multiple steps to extract data from cubes: Extract Cube Export Data View to file Export Dataset Extract all cubes All these steps save data as text or csv-files. We could save disk-space and increase performance by using parquet-files. Head-to-head comparison CSV Parquet Row-based storage…
Probably The Best Alternative to CSV Storage: Parquet Data
1. What is your idea? Board support a lot of datasources. Probably the most used are csv files. However, with ever increasing amounts of data, working with csv files becomes a pain. Parquet files can be an alternative. Head-to-head comparison CSV Parquet Row-based storage format. A hybrid of Row-based and column-based…
Integrated technical documentation functions
1. What is your idea? The Idea is, to have the possibility to directly document the application within Board. For example: Entity Comment possibility for each Entity technical name Cubes Naming Convention field / technical name possibility to comment (maybe overall and in addition on Cube Version level) Value explanation…
New Time Function "Year End-" and "Year Start Value"
1. What is your idea? The Idea is, to have additional time functions to easily get the values for year end and year start, also for previos years. 2. What specific problem are you trying to find a solution to, or what new scenario would this idea respond to? Independent from the current time selection, I want to display…
Format report in Microsoft WORD
Within T-Mobile it is our objective to report everything from BOARD. Herefor, we need to combine the individual BOARD reports in WORD to have one total report which we can easily share with the stakeholders. However, it is not possibility to have the same format of the report we have in BOARD to have it in WORD as well. It…
Formattign Text Analytic Search
Hello, we would delete blue line on text analytic search (see below image) and also have the possibility to hide the button on the right. Marco
Formatting Screen Title
Hello, i Would modify format and font of Screen Title in entire capsule in order to modify exsisting configuration with customer needs to make the title clearer. Regards Marco
Return zero values in First Value and Last Value functions
The First Value and Last Value functions return the first/last non zero value. I suggest the introduction of two functions that return the first/last value even if it is zero. The goal is to have the first/last value of the selected period regardless if it is zero or not. E.g.: when looking at a warehouse stock level I…
Display internal Entity member ID
1. What is your idea? The Idea is, to display in the entity section of the database the internal ID of Entity members. 2. What specific problem are you trying to find a solution to, or what new scenario would this idea respond to? Board technology saves any selection on entity members on the internal ID of the entity…
Show "Entity used in selection"
1. What is your idea? The Idea is, to show in the Entity list of the database a hint, if this entity is used in a selection (like “in use in a cube”). In addition, there should be information on which elements the selection are based on. Also where the selection is set (which Screen, Layout, etc.) 2. What specific problem…
Fix the duration in the Gantt-Chart (its off by 1 day)
Hi, it seems like the automatic calculation of the duration, which one can enable in the settings of the Gantt-Chart, is wrong by one day. For example, the duration for an activity from the 10.1.2023 to the 13.01.2023 is shown as 3 days, while in reality there are 4 days: 10,11,12,13. I assume it just calculates…
Extract all Cubes – Filter Cubes by Entity
Description In Board it is possible to extract all cubes with procedure step “Extract all cubes”. It would be great to have an option to filter the cubes by entity or list of entities. For example I have a database with 1500 cubes. 600 cubes use the entity Planversion. I like to extract only all cubes with this entity. Use…
"Expand Above" in Data View
Hello, Version: B12.6 In data views with more than one entity per row, headers are automatically added for each entity used. Like so: However, if we want to have the summation going [b]down[/b], a subtotal at the bottom is required. This means that we end up with an empty header row, which just takes up space. My…
IBCS Standards
I would like to suggest to enrich the dataview and graph settings to help building a BOARD application using reporting standards as suggested by the IBCS® standards (International Business Communication Standards). These standards aim at providing a consistent reporting set for the user, so that he can very quickly know…
Subcription Hub - Export of all columns
Dear all, In the SubHub, the export of data is very useful for analysis. Unfortunately, not all columns are exported, why ? It would be very helpful to have for example the last connexion date of the user ! In my point of view, this is the most important information to clear the users list and free some licenses. Thanks.…
Database profile - Avoid reload of database
Dear all, The database is systematically reloaded after a DB profile modification / creation. On my side I have a very huge DB (160 Gb) and reloading the DB takes a long time (about 20 minutes) and freezes the Board server for end users. So when you have several profiles to modify, we are blocking users for a long time. It…
Add templates for drill down layouts
It would be great if we could add templates to drill down layouts. There is a work around by creating a drill to screen but adding this additional functionality would be useful
Subscription Hub - Enable sort function on "Role" and "Instance"
Greetings! In the process of creating a new user account, we often have to look up users with similar responsibilities so that we can assign the correct role to a new user. However, the sorting function on "Role" and "Instance" is not enabled, making the process a tad bit slower. It would be great if we could use sort on…
Log track of entities saturation and in case the MaxItem is reached
In B12 when the Max Item saturation is reached, Board gives no alert even if Data Readers fails to load data due to the impossibility to add new members. It would be nice to have this error and also to have it tracked in the logs (such as Data reader failure etc). Also having the saturation information monitored in some…
Set time-out for "user-procedures" (selections, layout etc.)
It would be really good for a system stability if there would be a possibility to set a time-out for layout-executions/selection-procedures caused by (normal) users. It happens that users are doing "queries" which cannot be executed and they are leaving the screen e.g. because they see that it's not working - but the tasks…