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Fit size of chart legend elements
The size of the legend elements in charts always depends on the length of the longest element. Thus the legend elements are always equally distributed within the legend. However if you only have a few elements in the legend with very different lengths it might look weird. E.g. you have two blocks "Costs" and "Number of…
Alert for wrong syntax for algorithms
When using algorithms in block (either for Data Flow or Data View), and you need to use a "complex" formula, it would be nice to have an alert that notify you if the syntax is wrong. An example can be, when you use a long statement with multifle IF's (and a lot of parenthesis), if you forget just one parenthesis your…
automatic `.all` entities as parent entities
Suppose you want to compare one customer with all the customers. You select one customer per pager and want to have a dataview with the sales of the one customer directly comparing it with all of them. You add two cubes, one with the sales for that customer and another with the sales of all customers. That second cube…
Text with placeholders to be filled with blocks
There are some reports with lots of recurring text and numbers that change. So I want to be able to use the label field and the dynawrite with not just one block, but with many. And in between put some text. e.g. "The National Association of Realtors said Thursday that its pending home sales index fell 1.5% to a reading of…
Dataview group name hidden
When you have groups in a dataview, the group name is hidden, would be better if it shows the group name over the next column group
Interfacing the SubHub with an authorization management system
Allow data exchange (API / CSV) between a third party system that manages authorizations in order to allow : - Creation / Modification / Deletion of users, with in return a log file indicating the status of operations - Program the extraction of a daily audit file This functionality is sometimes a prerequisite for certain…
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…
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…
Localization – Additional filters on DB and Capsule
Goal: Have the possibility to filter on DB and Capsule: Why: To focus on just the DB and Capsule you need to translate. It would help in presales but also in consulting to easily and quickly „customize“ applications. In the current release you see all textstrings from all DB and all capsules running on your machine. That…
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…
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…
Copy paste of a cube line
Be able to copy paste a cube line in the layout instead of having to rebuild an other one from the beginning
Activate Dataview layout preview refresh on demand only
Hi, Currently we observe very often that when end-users are trying to reconfigure a layout, the preview is trying to refresh every time a modification is made. In some cases, it can generate 10 or 20 layout refreshs (when adding / removing axis or blocks) that are useless and can overload the sytem. It is especially a…
Beautiful Geomaps
Overview The existing GeoMap tool works well. It does the job of visualizing data on a map, but it's not beautiful. The flexibility and analytics provided in BOARD with respect to time analytics is great. I think it's time to improve the GeoMap tool to keep pace with other offerings. Features * Shape Datatype - Keyhold…
"Hide Based On" in Layout block
Similar to the 'Locked by' option within a block, it would be handy if we also had the ability to 'Hide based on' for a block. So that if the 'based on' block is 1 this block would be hidden (as opposed to 'locked'). This would enable for a more simple hide/show of blocks in a dataview etc. This can already be done with…
"Displaying Zero values as" Options
Currently you can choose to display zero values or not. If you display the zero value, it will show as "0". My idea is to add more options for how to display a zero. For instance, could we display zeros as "-". Example from excel below.
Improve Backup & Restore with timestamp.
Today when you backup a databse it basically copies the database whithout a Timestamp. In the Cloud (for instant : MyDatabase.hbmp) , it copies it in the Backup folder. Then, you need to rename the folder (eg : MyDatabase_20190701). With large databases if you try to rename the folder it takes hours (or does not work at…
Enhancement : Firefox
I'm in charge of the customer used Firefox. So, I hope that Board can be used even in Firefox.
Treemap Alerts for negative numbers
Hi All, I was pointed to non-intuitive behavior of the treemaps functionality by a Board user. In this case the CFO of the company who had a good point in his analysis. See below the issue. For treemaps, alerts can be assigned to values. So if we take green for positive and red for negative, one would (intuitively) expect…
Metadata export as in WinClient
Hi, the new impact analysis feature is great and improves work for developers in the Board environment a lot. Nevertheless we would appreciate a full metadata export functionality as it was available in the WinClient to allow developers to perform their own analysis if necessary. Please vote up! BR Sebastian