Platform Q&A
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Understanding BEAM
Hi everyone, I'm currently testing the Forecasting with BEAM, but I can't get it running. In my first try, I had a cube with month, customer, product, scenario and version and created a second cube for beam with the same dimensions (Absatz & Beam - Absatz). Those two cubes are not in the screenshots, I just wanted to…
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Error 1064 after update of on-premise installation to Board Version 12.5
Hi all, I have updated on the local machine to version 12.5. However, the Board Engine can not be started, stating the error message 1064: An exception occurred in the service when handling the control request. The previously installed version was 12.4 and this was working. Thanks for any hint on how this issue could be…
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Checkbox column in Smart Import
Hi, I am building a page with a smart import object, and we would like to have a column that is a checkbox. Is this possible? I have not been able to find a setting for this. Alternatively, we will use a dropdown Yes/No picklist, so we do have a plan B, but I wanted to confirm if this is possible or not. Thank you,…
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Is there a way to have rows with no data not displayed in a drill down screen?
When drilling down through data on a report, I would like to be able to make it more concise by not having rows with no data be hidden. The below highlighted rows are examples of what I'd like to not be shown.
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Data Flow with Change of Entity Element
Hello :) I want to make a DataFlow that shifts the value from one Element to another (in the same Cube) e.g.: Test_Entity: element1, element2 before DataFlow: cube: element1: 0 element2: 10 after DataFlow: cube: element1: 10 element2: 0 Thank you Kind regards wolfgang
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Some Problems with BEAM
Hello, I have some questions to anybody, who has already some experience with BEAM. In order to get some practical knowledge about BEAM, I am trying to produce a model forecasting a time series with sales data, but the results are useless, as the model writes the same forecasted value in every future time entity. The value…
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Import a Budget from Board into Xero
Hi, has anyone come across a need to import budget data from Board into Xero? I know Xero can upload flat files, but can it alos automated the proces with a api? Thanks, Tony
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Totals on top of a stacked cartesian?
Hi, Our customer would like to see the totals on top of the bars of their cartesian charts. How can I show this for them? Thank you, Krisztina
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Saving Time Function Forecast in a cube
Hi everyone. I'm interested in using the Forecast function in a cube that contains information about the sales amount until the past month, in order to obtain a prediction for the following ones. Currently I'm applying this Forecast function inside a dataview, the problem is that it takes too long to load the page. Is it…
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Server command - Batchfiles not visible
Hello Together, i like to use server command to run a batchfile. I inserted a batchfile in C:/Board/Job, but it's not visible. Is there some configuration needed? Thanks for your Help!
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Dataflows : c=a*b versus c=join(a*b)
Hi everyone, I see in an application developed by consultants here, that some dataflows are using a c=join(a*b) formula, and I can't find the difference with "c=a*b" when I test on my dataflows. In some cases, "JOIN" appears in the db log as the algorithm, and some other time it's HBMP. Does anyone knows what is the…
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Need installation file 10.6.3.41077
Hi, i need this installation version to work with a client. Could someone send it to me as soon as possible? Thansk
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Rolap cubes and writeback data from Board cube to SAP/4 HANA database
Hello, i will discuss several points around Rolap cubes here Documentation example for SAP/4 HANA relational table including writeback my questions regarding writeback to relational database Documentation (Board manual) I found only partial information in the board manual regarding RDB cubes and writeback topics in the…
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D365 F&O Board Integration Configuration
Hi All, We are in the process of implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (F&O) as our group ERP and as a result need to setup an integration with Board. Our Microsoft partners have suggested a few options. It would be good to hear if anyone else uses this as their ERP with Board and has any advice on…
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Potentially corrupting a cube
Hi everybody, asking this question on behalf of a parter. They are removing contracts from a cube in a customers environment and carried out the following steps Took backup of cubes Took backup of tree for contract (ensuring it was well formed) Cleared all contracts Reloaded the tree (after removing the contracts not…
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Percent of total
I've got a data view where I've broken down sales into several categories. How can I get the percentage of the total sales for each of these categories in an adjacent column?
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Is it possible to change this reverse algorithm logic?
Hello everybody, I would like to know if you have any tip in order to “invert” the update logic behind this dataview and its reverse algorithm. In particular, I have 3 simple columns: Budget Value (a), Quantities sold (c) and Average Price (which is an algorithm a/c). Here the reverse algorithm for block b (avg price) is…
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Insufficient privileges to manage this database
Hi, I am migrating a board 10 datamodel to a board 12 datamodel on a new server with an on-premise installation, I successfuly copied the database file to the board 12 database folder, I restarted the server, but when trying to upgrade the datamodel I get the following error " Insufficient privileges to manage this…
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Divide by - Function
Hi there I have an strange issue: In the following i want to divide the values by 1000. But Board is actually dividing by 100.000:
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How to compare the same days of a different year
Hello, I need to create a cartesian chart in order to show how much my company has sold this year and how much last year. The main problem is that we sell more on weekends, so if the first day of the year is satuarday, the year before it was friday, and it's obvious that this year performance is better than the last year's…
