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Description field for Cubes and Entities
In the datamodel, there should be a field "description" for each cube and entity. This would help documenting the purpose of each cube and entity. This would help the maintenance and the transfer of knowledge. for any developer, the good practice is to write comments in the code. This should be the same for Board:…
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Waterfall chart - hide variances that equal 0
Hello everyone, I have that issue in Board to be able to compare 2 datasets with a waterfall chart: if I want to have only the non null variances appearing and try to filter on those, it also changes the totals for by beginning block and ending block. For example in the waterfall chart below, I put a filter on all non null…
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metadata-driven modeling with BAML (Board Application Markup Language)
This feature is inspired by BIML (Business Intelligence Markup Language). To develop a board-application you don’t need coding skills. That is really great for beginners! To develop a board-application is mostly to create or alter meta-data. For example create a new entity. Give them a name, group, id length, desc length…
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Flexibility with procedure step "Show message"
Hi all, it would be great if we could have more flexibility with messages e.g., Custom buttons (additional button - or rename of existing ones) Custom icon / header Custom color Kind regards, Atilla
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Resize Columns in ETL Tab of Data Readers
Maybe we are unique in having a field that is very long, but having the ability to manually change the width of columns in the ETL would be fantastic. We have different combinations of materials that can go into our goods, all depending on what has been ordered. In order to make this happen and price things appropriately,…
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edit multiple blocks in a layout
have the capability to apply some setup to more blocks at the same time e.g. I have 4 blocks and I want to set 2 dec for all of them: I have to open once at a time and change setup 4 times. It would be wonderful have the capability to select more blocks and apply the same setting in 1 shot. The same in the block formatting…
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More flexibility regarding format of import file
At the moment Board is quite limited regarding the format of import files, as one column per entity and just one column containing values are required → Table on the left side of the screenshot. It would be much more comfortable to be able to import more than one column containing values, for example values per year →…
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trigger broadcast functionality via procedure launcer
Our customer has the broadcast license and is currently sending content critical time-controlled status reports. We would liked to trigger this automatically at the end of the data preparation with the Procedure Launcher and not (necessarily) delayed (since the data preparation has to be finished) by the broadcast…
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Data Entry in column
in long tables we have have an option of using ">" for multiple data entry for each row how about an option to enter multiple data in each column????
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Feature to add a "+" symbol in front of positive values only.
Currently this can only be achieved by using text algorithms, which can be very time consuming and difficult to manage across multiple screens/objects. Using the image below as an example, can we add a feature to add a "+" value in front of the 89.0% without writing it as an text algorithm in the data view? I understand…
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Include Version Number in Release Notes
Hello, Currently, on patch release notes the only reference within them is "Summer Release 2023", "Spring Release 2022", etc. However, within the product itself - we only have version numbers. Ie 12.4. Would it be possible to include the version number in the announcement title of the BOARD Manual? Example: never mentions…
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Improve Quick layout
Hello All, It would be very nice if : we could move the items of the quick layout when we design it : today the items appear at the screen in the order they have been entered but we cannot change their place in design mode Th label appeared entirely
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Adding Metadata to Cubes
It would be great if we could add meta data to the cube Name: Same as today Descr: A description, for example "Actuals", "FTE"….. The description is currently not always same as cube name and I then have to change in all data views - if instead we could pick up the description we would be sure to use the same description…
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Dataview Feature to change the color of single row based on condition
Hello, I think it will be useful to add a feature to change the color of a single row based on condition/cube value… Example : We have Forecast cube displayed by month (as ROW), we need to display the ROWS of ACTUAL months (Jan-Jun) in green, and the rest of months (Jul-Dec) in red Thank you team ! Best regards
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Notify if max item number reached
In desktop client, there used to be a pop-up message appearing in case a max item number was reached and that the Administrator was to be contacted. It would be great if some kind of notification would show up also in web (without the need to access the proper Relationships page), because if noone accesses the…
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Select entities to clear in a cube
Today we have the possibility, in a Procedure, to clear the Cube with existing selection ("Use current selection") or clear the whole Cube (default). If you only want to clear on specific Entities you will need to setup a save & restore selection and/or de-select & re-select specific Entities. Suggestion: Give the…
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Add cube bit type in cube overview
Hi Can you add what bit type the different cubes are directly in the overview screen for the cubes. Lars
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Add functionality for "folder-type" capsules formatting
We would like to be able to modify the background colors, title colors and icons for capsules and size of capsule display for the "folder type" ones. For example in the screenshot attached, I would like to modify the appearance of the "Countries" folder capsule. Currently we cannot do that which makes the adoption by users…
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Proper end user help system for Board please
I am NOT talking here about those users building Board solutions. I am talking about the end user, how can they get help on the Board application they are using!?! Today the solution we have is far from ideal. We have a yellow question mark on every screen in our Board application. The user can click this to get help. The…
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Default Entity Member Labeling Convention to Excel Tab upon Export
When exporting a Board screen to excel and choosing to page by a given entity that within Board has been set to "code" as the default setting for that entity, the exported tab pages within the excel document appear as the description of the entity member and not the desired code of the entity member. It would be helpful to…
