Platform Q&A
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Funcitionality Board Add IN
Hello, I have a question regarding the office add-In for excel. I tried to recreate a report in excel. In the screen selection, the entities "Kostenträger" and "Sachkonten" are already excluded in BOARD. However, when I exclude "Kostenträger" via the sheet selection in the add‑in, I’m not able to exclude any additional…
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Location of the log file when the new entity members added in On-Prem
Hi, Can anyone help me to find the log file that contains the timestamp of the new entity member added in On-prem. Please provide me the exact file name and path of that file. Thank you for your help
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Unbalanced Heirachy - Loading data into Parent without data in child entity members
Hi Team, We have Unbalanced hierarchy and we want to load the data into parent without data in child. eg: Here we have to load the data into Member 1.3 without data in child members 1.31 and 1.32. Member 1 Member 1.2 Member 1.3 1.31 1.32 Member 1.4 we have tried different ways but if we disabled the unbalanced hierarchy we…
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Board 14.5 - Flex grid Code + Description concatenation
Notice that in Dataview, and everywhere else, the concatenation of Code and Description is separated by just a blank space. But in the flexgrid, it uses a hyphen. Can this be fixed in a patch? It makes things cumbersome when you're trying to compare things in an Excel export, you have to manipulate the data to do proper…
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Dynamic Header on Dataview
My client using Board 14.2. Is there any possibility to do some Dynamic Header on Data view. Such as, if cube a<30,"XXX","YYY". I tried to put the formula on Header, but the visibility of the Header on Play Mode still the formula itself.
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different number types and Totals
Hi there, 2 questions in one post. I have multiple entities which need a different number formatting. eg. Days don't need decimals while the rates yes. share rows should show a % sign at the end. Any idea how i can manage that? can i do it through rules somehow? second question - Totals don't make sense any idea how i can…
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Breakpoints for a regular User
Hello, Are breakpoints supposed to be ignored for a user with a regular User license? I'm trying to investigate a Procedure that fails when running as a User, but not as an Admin. Can't find any documentation regarding this. Thank you
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Custom Time Entity
Hello, I am looking for the best solution to define a custom time entity. For example, I would like to select: last 3 completed months, last 6 months, and last 12 months. The goal is to see the same cube three times in a data view with the respective reference to the 3,6,12 closed months. The whole thing should be…
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Backup Procedure Fails
Backup Procedure Fails when we give the custom path to customized path (NAS). this path can access from the server and the backups are able to run to the same path from Board 12.6 but am unable to do same from the Board 14. Can you share your inputs if anyone know the solution. I have compared the config files in both…
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Drill Down / Anywhere Configuration Best Practice (Code + Description)
We have a Profit Statement Report that has Reporting Account by row (1st screenshot). It is currently configured to only show Description for this entity, and we do not want to change it to Code + Description for internal reasons. However, we want to give users the ability to drill down / anywhere into the following three…
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Transition container not showing dataview with yearly cumulative value. Potential bug?
Hi Board Community, When using a Transition Container, a Data View configured with Yearly Cumulative Value (YCV) behaves inconsistently between modes. In Design mode, the YCV Data View sometimes displays values correctly. However, in Play mode, the same Data View renders completely blank. Other Data Views within the same…
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ALM Transporter Package flags procedures that haven't been changed
Hi, We have recently upgraded to 14.5 (Revision 0.0.447261) in our on-prem environment, and we are experiencing an anomaly with how the transporter package works. When we compare two environments, we are getting flags for procedures that have not been changed. The log for all of these cases just says "Steps". We know for a…
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Cannot reconfigure the Board 14 Mailer service under IIS
Hello, I have a Board on-premise instance (V14.4) running on a Azure virtual machine (operating system: Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Datacenter) using Microsoft IIS. The server is running well (thanks these instructions https://community.board.com/discussion/17975/how-to-setup-microsoft-iis-with-board-14-web-server ) and…
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Flex grid /Data view updates?
Hi! Is there a post or discussion around upcoming Flex Grid updates? A few quality of life things I’d appreciate: divide by block header substitution formulas Column header wrap text Row totals and column totals (this is the most common question I get when walking planners through a flex grid object) And then, on the flip…
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Struggling with the REST API
Hi, I would like to use the REST API in Board to access it outside of Board. We are currently still using version 12.6.2.88217, but will soon be updating to Board 14.5. We have an on-premises installation. I have read the following documentation on this topic: https://help.board.com/docs/the-api-queries-section…
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SAML on premise
We use Board on premise and want to use SAML. For the Web-Client it works fine, but we are struggeling with the SAML activation for the office plug in. I can't find any decent documentation.
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export a dataset to a location other than the C or Z drive
Hello, Do you know if it is possible to export a dataset from a CSV file to a location other than the C or Z drive? My goal is to send a CSV file directly to a data warehouse on another cloud. Thank you for your response.
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Trigger send email notification after running procedure with log
We are triggering Board procedure as part of the nightly process that runs every day to update data. Is there any way we can trigger last step to send out email to recipients about completion of procedure with including log
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Summary parameter "Last" doesnt reflect at higher levels
Hello All, We have data at Weeks which will roll up to Months and further to Quarter, Half Year and Full Year. We have a requirement to show the "Closing Stock" as the Last value. The Data view has all the periods in Row Axis (Not Flattened). We have tagged the Closing Stock block's Summary as Last. The data shows up…
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What is the purpose of "Position Changes" in the Data Model Transporter?
We recently executed a backup and restore of our core data model from production to non-production. Everything was aligned momentarily; However, as soon as we developed a couple new objects (cubes, rules, entity formats), the data model comparison tool exploded to show several hundred changes between environments. Of the…
