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Change Entity to Display Code
Hello, In a dataview, I would like for the @month entity to be displayed in it's code form. I do not see this as an option in the dataview settings but could be missing something. For example, when June is selected and the year 2022 is selected it is displayed as "Jun.22" but I would like its code, "202206", to display.…
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Conversion from Time (text stored in Text cube) to number?
In Board 10 we used two text cubes for data entry for start and end times and cube with a nexel formula in the Data View to calculate the difference using value to convert from a time to a number. e.g. =value([@a;*;*])-value([@b;*;*]) While this displays properly in the data view, in Board 12 the result no longer gets…
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Display Entity Description in Data View
Hello, I am attempting to apply logic in a data view only when specific Months are selected. When I use the Month entity in the data view, it displays the total number of months selected. I would like for it to display either the selected Month description (January, February, etc.) or the number associated with each…
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Error Codes
Does anyone have a link to a page listing error codes with explanations? Does something like this exist? ------------------------------ Matthew Sobon Data Analyst M.T. Maritime Management (usa) LLC United States ------------------------------
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BOARD R Calculation Step
At this point, BOARD's software includes an R calculation step. This supposedly allows users to run R scripts on data extracted from BOARD, then read the results back into BOARD. Unfortunately, the server package used to connect BOARD to R, Rserve, is known to have several IP connectivity issues when used on Windows. The…
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Deleting entity members in Board 11
Hi Fellow community members, In Board 10, deleting entity members was/is against best practice. Has this changed in Board 11? I reckoned this might be the case since also the max item# property is not there anymore. If yes, is there a difference between a migrated database and a fresh Board 11 database? Thanks for your…
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Procedure to Show Hidden Blocks
Hello, Does anyone know if it is possible to show hidden blocks through a procedure? Or something similar. Thank you, ------------------------------ Matthew Sobon Data Analyst M.T. Maritime Management (usa) LLC United States ------------------------------
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Power BI Connector for Board | Login issue
Hi All, I want to ask if has anyone been successful to set up connectivity between Power BI and Board? I followed the steps as per the documentation. It states that we do not need any redirect URL when working with Power BI, but it doesn't show any login screen. It prompts me with the below error. I have tried clearing out…
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Trend line in a chart
Hello, I want to make a trend line in a chart like de red line. I tried with the time functions Trend but that does not work. Someone a solution ? Kind regards ------------------------------ carla Janssen Business intelligence specialist Attero Netherlands ------------------------------
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How to use the pause function with Pagers/Selectors
We have a screen that contains 4 pagers, the setup now you have to select each page and wait for it to display before you move to the next selections, Is there a way you can pause all selectors/pagers so the output is only displayed after all selections are made. Thanks ------------------------------ Olu Shonowo Financial…
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B11 vs StandAlone partner licenses
Hello With the full web approach it seems stand alone licenses, commonly used by partners, are no more working. How they can connect ?
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Board Engine will not restart after server was unresponsive
We came into a server this morning that was unresponsive after a reboot the Board Engine will not restart we get the following error in the event log.Board 10 Server is starting. Configuration: C:\Program Files\Board\Board Server\server_config_v2.xml License: C:\Program Files\Board\Board Server\Nampak Production 19-20.Key…
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Colours for Risks & Opportunities chart
Hi, I would like to use the red and green alert for my risks and opportunities chart. It is a very simple bar chart with one data view. I turned on the data alert on the cube but it doesn't come through in the chart. I looked at every option in the chart but I can't see anything in the settings. I can't use waterfall for…
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How to add alerters to a chart
I need to add an alerter to a chart to highlight the week a product is on promotion. The chart is by week. I have a layout above that shows the data for the product by week and the weeks the product is on promotion are highlighted. The layout is a master layout that drives the chart below. When the user selects a product…
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Timebar/Selection to current month
Hello again! On my Screen im using a timebar for the selection. If someone enters the screen, it jumps to the actual year 2018. The problem now is, that it shows me all the months in 2018. What I need is, if someone enters the screen, the timebar and all the charts should only show values from january until the current…
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Drill through more than 7500 rows.
Hi, I have a trouble with drill through. When the user make a big selection, specially under "Total", I received an error message like "The query returned too many rows." this happened when the query result is more than 7500 rows. In this case the most value is 27000 rows for one month. I use this kind of query to run a…
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How to substract last month from this month using procedure
Hi there, We use Board 12.3. I want to know how to calculate the total of product B. Please see the table below. I want to know how to create cube and use procedure to calculate this result. Jan.22Feb.22Mar.22Apr.22productA999b.200100100productBa.500c.300200100 (c)300=(a)500-(b)200 This cube has Date types. Thanks for your…
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Power User prohibits procedure execution
hello I want to limit the procedure execution of a user who has a Power User license. Even if you turn on "Deny procedure editing" in the profile the following situations cannot be avoided. -> Procedures can be set with label actions -> You can execute the procedure from the label in play mode. I have a Power User create a…
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Pager different selection in a container "Panel"
Hello I would like to create a 2 panels with the same dataview but with not the same selectors. The goal is to see the data in both dataview in same time and then easily transfer data from the first layout to the second layout through a procedure. Currently when I select a pager in the first panel, that changes also the…
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Slow DB loading
Hi, I have a scheduled daily procedure to load the data into Board. I noticed that before running the procedure steps the Board Engine loads the DB in memory. This is correct, since I scheduled the service restart every night. The problem is that the DB loading takes around 2 hours. I can't change the time schedule of the…
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Cell Formatting
Rich Wojcik, Paola Mason and I are working on a scorecard solution. We would like to refine the formatting to be cell-specific. Consider the following scorecard as our starting point, and I'll describe our challenge. On the above scorecard, we want to be able to identify percentages with a (%), dollars with a ($) and…
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BoardEngine service will not stop
Hi, I'm running Board 12.2.0.0.67608 on-premise. I need to change the diagnostic log level settings in the config files, but when I try to stop the BoardEngine I get an error,Windows could not stop the Board Engine service on Local Computer. Error 1061: The service cannot accept control messages at this time. The service…
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Excel and Web log in at same time
Hello, It would be very helpful if we could be logged into Board Excel and Web at the same time. There are many times that I am monitoring users submitting data on the Web and I'm in Excel refreshing files. This causes me to get logged out of the web and go back in, click on the capsule, then screen, then select the…
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Get cube values for first and last element of selection
Hi, I need to show in a data view a column with the values related to the first element of a selection. I also need a column with the value for the last element. For example, the selection is for the months from January to June. I want the values for January. I used the ANALYTICAL FUNCTIONS > First Value, setting the From…
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Effective approach to copy data from one version to another
When we need to copy data from one version to another, we usually adopt the temp cube approach. Copy data into temp cube without the version entity and then write it to the original cube into another version. This could be quite a bit of a task if you are required to copy data for all models, there could be a large number…
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Block hidden if
Hello, I have a layout with 3 blocks. All have data entry available. I would like to display the third block only if the user has selected a specific entity. Let's say my entity is the year, I would like to display the block "c" only if the user has selected the year 2022. If the year is not 2022 i would like to see only…
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Month entity without year
Hi, I'm using a dataview for sales analysis. On the rows I have the year entity. I need to put the month on the columns, to get 12 columns of data (1 for each month). If I use the Month entity I get one column for each month of each year. My Year entity has 5 years, so I get 60 columns. Can the month name be extracted from…
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[IFRS16 APP BLA] Cube Corruption
Hi, We recently had a problem with a procedure because some cubes were corrupted, are there any best practices to follow for to prevent this problem in the futute? The version of the BLA database is 12.1. Thank you in advance for any response, Francesco. ------------------------------ Francesco Tufaro Consultant TECHEDGE…
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Hide screen in menu
Hello, I'm starting with the new board (V12.2) and I'm struggling a bit to add a menu. With the previous version (V10.7) I was able to select manually the screens to add in the menu. Unless if I'm wrong, it seems with the new version we cannot exclude some screens ! (it's all or nothing) I have some screens that i want to…
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Data View with data entry and pre-set values
Hi guys, I have come across this when trying to create a new screen for a revenue centre. What I want to create is a similar function to Vlookup in Excel (see below). Client is existing entity in Board. Class is a data entry cube. And i'd like to have revenue to look at another mapping table. When user entered class as…
