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Fabian Thoma
Fabian Thoma Employee
Level 100: Foundations of Building in Board Level 200: Leveraging Board for Business Insights Name Dropper First Anniversary
edited March 2023 in Idea Exchange

1. What is your idea?

The Idea is, to show in the Entity list of the database a hint, if this entity is used in a selection (like “in use in a cube”). In addition, there should be information on which elements the selection are based on. Also where the selection is set (which Screen, Layout, etc.)

2. What specific problem are you trying to find a solution to, or what new scenario would this idea respond to?

Board technology saves any selection on entity members on the internal ID of the entity element (not the entity code). If there are fixed selections on entities and the internal id of an entity element is changing, it could lead to a wrong selection or error. This is regarding e.g. to fix selections of

  • Screen or Layout
  • Refer to
  • Selections in Procedures
  • Fix selections in Security
  • …

The information would help to avoid changes in entities, that are selection relevant.

3. What workaround have you found and used so far (if any)?
You can see in the analysis where an entity is used. But not if there is a selection on the screen.

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  • Monisha Jain
    Monisha Jain Employee
    Level 100: Foundations of Building in Board 5 Likes Name Dropper First Comment

    Hi, thank you for sharing your idea Fabian! We appreciate the time and effort you put into crafting your suggestion, and we are aware of this specific problem.

    We have this Idea in our longer-term backlog as this requires a re-structure of our engine and the behaviour on selection needs to be worked upon.
     
    We are committed to delivering the best possible experience to our customers, and we must prioritize the features and enhancements that will have the most significant impact on your daily use of our software. 

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