Badge of the Month: November

Miran Saric
Miran Saric Employee
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edited November 1 in Blog

Fall is flying by and winter is just around the corner but so is your chance to earn our November badge!

Thanks to our awesome October badge earners for their contributions, @Nico Weber, @Fethi ZERARA, @Gabriele Gallo, @Lucas Charello, @Mindy Waltz, @Carlos Eduardo Meneses Marín, @Helmut Heimann, and @Rishabh Shahi. Your contributions make our Community such a valuable place!

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November question of the month

Pro tip: What's a top tip or trick that allows you to get the most out of Board?

Board is a powerful tool with so many incredible features leading to transformative solutions that bring value to your organization while helping you overcome challenges.

Let us know how you maximize your Board experience with some tips and tricks, whether big or small, and earn yourself a shiny new November Badge of the month!

Comments

  • Fethi ZERARA
    Fethi ZERARA Active Partner, Community Captain
    Fourth Anniversary 100 Comments 5 Answers 25 Likes

    An efficient data model in Board is crucial for project success, especially when tailored to customer needs. Analyzing the project's requirements will help you pick a model layout that strikes a good balance between power and simplicity. For example, if suitable in the customer's context, you could opt for a KPI dimension over multiple cubes to avoid cube proliferation. This approach can help enhance performance while aligning with customer objectives. DataView trigger procedures may impact speed, so consider them. Thoughtful structure choices lead to customer-focused solutions.

  • Helmut Heimann
    Helmut Heimann Employee, Community Captain
    50 Answers 500 Comments 250 Likes Fourth Anniversary

    One of my favourite features are the virtual cubes in procedures and the fact that you can use them for ‘Select Entity based on’ and also ‘IF-THEN-ELSE’.
    Yes, it takes some time and thought, but these things really help in developing faster and more understandable data flows and procedures.

  • Miran Saric
    Miran Saric Employee
    100 Likes Second Anniversary 10 Comments August Badge of the Month
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    Absolutely fantastic stuff, @Fethi ZERARA, @Helmut Heimann, and @Nico Weber - thanks so much for sharing!

  • Miran Saric
    Miran Saric Employee
    100 Likes Second Anniversary 10 Comments August Badge of the Month
    admin

    Appreciate you sharing, @Karry Schupp!

  • Lucas Charello
    Lucas Charello Active Partner, Community Captain
    25 Likes 10 Comments 25 Up Votes December Badge of the Month

    Recently I implemented a drop-down list with specific suggestions for different members of an entity.

    First you make a Data View with an "Entity 1" by row and you place a "Cube 1". In my case, a text cube having Entity 1 as dimension.

    Then you create an "Entity 2" which regroups all suggestions you wish to have in all drop-down lists.

    After, you create a "Cube 2" and use both Entity 1 and 2 as dimensions, and you fill cells with the values you wanna display for each member of the Entity 1.

    You're almost good to go. All you have to do is to use Cube 2 as suggested value in the "Data Entry" configuration inside your Data view!

    Have fun on Board!

  • Miran Saric
    Miran Saric Employee
    100 Likes Second Anniversary 10 Comments August Badge of the Month
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    Awesome tip, thank you @Lucas Charello!

  • We recently implemented an automated process that imports the lowest entity in our organizational structure from SAP. Following this, a notification is sent by Board prompting the completion of the remaining entities in the tree to a specific user.

    Once completed, the organizational structure is sent to our Data Warehouse, ensuring that Power BI, among other tools, utilizes the same hierarchical structure

    This eliminates the need for manually maintaining and importing Excel files by one of our admins.

  • Miran Saric
    Miran Saric Employee
    100 Likes Second Anniversary 10 Comments August Badge of the Month
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    Very cool, thanks @Robin Slump!

  • Nicolas CHIGROS
    Nicolas CHIGROS Active Partner
    Fourth Anniversary 250 Up Votes 25 Likes 10 Comments

    It's a bid "old school" nowadays but RDB cube are a great way to exchange live data - at a small scale- allowing you to filter out or request data from your source or parameterize a externally generated dataset directly from Board.

  • Miran Saric
    Miran Saric Employee
    100 Likes Second Anniversary 10 Comments August Badge of the Month
    admin

    Thanks, @Nicolas CHIGROS!

  • An amazing tip in my opinion is the ability to experiment with the technologically most bleeding edge capabilities that make life much easier for everyone in & around Board through automations & innovative market leading offerings. A few that I'd like to mention is:

    1. System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) - this was helpful in establishing a quick way to onboard new set of users along with the specific roles from an external platform into Board directly

    https://help.board.com/docs/board-scim-api-overview

    2. R Calculation - Uses R DataFrames to enter computed data into Board cubes through DataReaders. This enables a faster calculation and takes some resourcing challenges off of Board's servers.

    https://help.board.com/docs/beam-action-group#r-calculation

    3. Identity Provider section - This has immense implications in terms of easing up the configuration for authenticating users to gain access to a Board Applications. The UI is intuitive & easy to understand. The setup is simple for almost all prevalent external identity providers within the industry

    https://help.board.com/docs/the-identity-provider-federation-section

  • Miran Saric
    Miran Saric Employee
    100 Likes Second Anniversary 10 Comments August Badge of the Month
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    Amazing indeed - thanks, @Rishabh Shahi!

  • Omar
    Omar Customer
    10 Comments April Badge of the Month March Badge of the Month May Badge of the Month

    One of the things I really appreciate about Board is how it allows me to import data from multiple sources simultaneously at the procedure level. Whether it's TXT, CSV, SQL, APIs, or SAP, I can easily bring all this data together in one procedure. This feature has been a game-changer for me, as it saves a lot of time and effort by eliminating the need for manual data consolidation which ultimately leads to faster and more insightful analysis.

  • Holly Rieke
    Holly Rieke Employee
    100 Comments 100 Likes Second Anniversary New Community Member
    admin

    @Omar Great tip on the 'game-changer'! Who doesn't need to save time in their day? 👏