Platform Q&A
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Board: Using Entity Creator
Hello Board Community, I’m working on a Board assignment where I need to allow users to assign Brands to Product Categories, and eventually link them down to Products. Steps done: Created an Entity: Brand Added Brands like A, B, and C. Created a screen using the Entity Editor to allow users to insert and edit Brand names.…
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screen to allow user to assign Brand to a Product.
Hello, I have created Cube Product_Brand Then, I created a screen to allow user to assign Brand to a Product. The relationships defined: Now via a data view, I want to assign a brand to a Product through data entry. However, since I did the mapping for product and product brand in the entity, now on the data view, it is…
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Restricting User Administration via Subscription Hub (Preventing Self-Privilege Escalation)
Hi everyone, We're currently working on establishing a clean governance setup for our Board environment and have a specific use case within the Subscription Hub: We want to allow a user to manage other users (e.g. assign them to groups or roles) – but without being able to assign higher privileges to themselves. Our…
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Possible to load unbalanced hierarchy throught smart import ?
is it possible to load an unbalanced entity throught smart import ? Because i can't find de parent code in the mapping part
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Autoarange Y Axis
Hello everybody, I am looking for a solution for arranging of the primary y axis. I have these two bar diagrams: My colleagues wish that both diagrams start with 0 and ideally use the entire width of the diagram. For the right one it works with Autorange. It starts with 0 and automatically sets an plausible upper limit. If…
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Flex Grid header colors
G'morning all, Previously, I was able to have different background colors on a Flex Grid header so that text input to the filter box in each column is visible (first screenshot). Now, the header background is only one color which isn't helpful when a user inputs text to filter. Yes, I have matched all colors between the…
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Charge unbalanced entity with datareader
Hi community When i want to charge an unbanlanced entity with my datareader , i always have one rejet for the parent code not found and in the relationship part i find that the parent code is missing , do you know where comes from the problem?
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Rejected value in Datareader
Hi all, i have a question about counting the rejected value for example, if i have a cube with 2 dimension (Time and Elements) and i want to load a csv file below to be clear, the cube is already populated in this way (without Element D) Using the data reader, 1 valid record and 1 rejected value were identified, and the…
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Trigger a Board Data Model Procedure from Excel Add-in
Hi All, Has anyone tried to trigger a Data Model procedure from Board Excel add-in using an API or any other approach? Regards, Vikash
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Waterfall Chart
Hi Team, I have created a waterfall chart as shown below. The end user would like to display both the values and the percentages. However, I haven’t found any settings that allow both to be shown simultaneously. I attempted to use the Tooltip feature to display the percentages, but that didn’t work either. Is there a way…
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Best practices for using "Back Compatible" option in Dataflows?
Hi everyone, As part of a migration project from Board 10 to Board 14, I’m reviewing the use of the "Back Compatible" option in Dataflows. I know this option should not be used with HBMP dataflows, but I’d like to go further and understand: Are there any additional recommendations or best practices related to this option?…
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Lock Period in Data Entry
Hello, Is it possible to lock month periods when using Data Entry but the input is on the year level? I want to enable users to input on the year level and allocate it using split/splat but I also need to lock the 1st half of the year so that the 2nd half is the only one changed by the input.
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Board logs out automatically when inactive
Hi, we are using Board version 12.6, revision 0.2.88217. Board does not run in the cloud, but on our own server. We use IIS. The following is stored in C:\Program Files\Board\Board Server\BoardEngineParams.xml: <EnableSessionExpiration>false</EnableSessionExpiration>…
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Google Doc Connection
Hello everyone! I have a question: does anyone know if it's possible to establish a connection between Board and Google Docs? I have a questionnaire that nearly 200 people will need to complete, and the different scores they enter should be aggregated to calculate averages. Ideally, they could fill it out in Google Docs,…
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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…
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Level 300 : Section 306 - Data entry is not enabled
Dear While building the Indirect Global expense account, the dataview is not in dataentry mode despite dataentry has been set on the cube. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Khaleelah
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Embed a report on other sites
Hello, we are trying to configure OpenID authentication in order to embed a Board report into an external application, following the guidance provided in this community post: https://community.board.com/discussion/15071/howto-embed-a-report-on-other-sites In our web.config, we have correctly added:…
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Sorting an Entity
I have an easy question, I have the following entity "Role" which appears like this in the Content tab: It seems that I can custom the order in which they will appear in any Dataview by dragging the elements in this content tab. My question is, if when the DataReader that creates the elements runs, it will mess the entity.…
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Performance analysis tool to find out why a dataview report loading very slow?
Hi BOARD team, I built a simple data view report using Tab. Couple of tables are loading much slower comparing to others. The table is simple and highly summarized. Is there a tool in BOARD we can use to find out why certain reports take much longer to load? Thanks a lot
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Substitution Formula in Broadcasting Not Working
Hi all, I can't get the @Selection substitution formula to work on the email sent by Broadcasting. Others are working like @User, @Date, @Time. Is there anything I need to do to make it work?
