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Excel Workbook: Best Practices and Steps
Author: Eugen Melnic, FP&A Manager and Community Captain We all know that Excel is often the source of business frustration and confusion that leads to the start of a successful transformation through the power of Board. Excel can also be the end point too, as once the business data and processes are in Board, business…
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Level 200 - Module 213 - Expense Data Issue
Hello, I am having issues with publishing my expense data with the new procedure updates made in this module. After I load the data in the expense and click publish data, the data does not disappear from the screen and I do not get prompted that the expense data has been published. Also, I do not see any expense data in…
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Extend Instance
Hello! My training instance expires tomorrow, could you please extend another 3 weeks? Thank you!
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Extract / Reload / Clear Cubes by Group and Support for Sub-groups
Hi Community Currently, procedure steps like Extract Cubes, Reload Cubes, and Clear Cube apply to all cubes or to manually selected ones. I suggest two improvements: Add the ability to perform these operations by cube group(or subgroups - improvement 2) (via dropdown selection) Introduce the concept of subgroups within…
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Dynamic Visibility of a cube / data block in a data view
Hi, is there any possibility to steer the visibility of a cube / data block in a data view? I want to achieve that I can steer on an admin scree, if a certain cube/data block is visible in a data view on another screen. I know that you can steer the dynamic visibility of the whole data view, but I need it for a certain…
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The importance of documentation for long-term success: Deployment documentation
Author: Lucas Charello is a Community Captain and Senior Board Consultant at Kiwika. Hello, Community! My name is Lucas Charello, and I’ve been working at Kiwika for almost three years as a Senior Board Consultant and Project manager. Today, I’m excited to bring up a big topic that is sometimes overlooked: The importance…
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Ability to Set a Data Entry Trigger in drill down popup
Currently the Data-Entry Trigger can be set only by the master data-view , it will be good to set a custom data entry trigger specifically designed for the drill-down popup. For now, we can work around the issue using 'Drill to Screen', but it would be interesting to have this capability within the 'Drill Down' itself.
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Procedure Concurrency Management: Lock Edit Mode When in Use and Enable Read-Only Access
Hello Community, Currently, multiple developers can open the same procedure in Edit mode at the same time, which increases the risk of overwritten changes, loss of work, and version conflicts. I suggest implementing a concurrency control mechanism where: A procedure is locked as soon as it's opened in Edit mode. Other…
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Linear Programming Problems in Board
How can we solve Linear Programming Problems in Board - Nexel or Procedures or any other tool ? Example contribution maximisation with limited machine hours, what should be the product mix. In Excel we can solve this using solver addin.
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How to Group Columns by Cube in Data View Layout
Hi everyone, I have question about data blocks Detail by Month As shown in the attached screenshots, the columns for Q Ovun (PO) and Q Ovun (GR) in the Data View are currently sorted by month, which results in an alternating pattern (e.g., Q Ovun (PO) Apr.25, Q Ovun (GR) Apr.25, Q Ovun (PO) May.25, Q Ovun (GR) May.25,…
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Level 300 : Backup Failed
Hi Team, I tried taking a backup as I was facing an issue in module 305, Update Sales Planning. So, thought of trying the workaround mentioned, deleting members, but the backup of the DB failed. Screenshot attached.
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Detail by On a block
Hello Team, I have a question regarding the Detail By option on Cubes in a dataview. Is the Detail By similar to a Group By. I see from the documentation the Detail By overrides the by column axes. Also, if we consider below documentation, why would i override country by Channel by using Detail By when i could only set By…
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Loop function doesn't work
Hi all, I'm trying to do a loop calculation, but for some strange reason some of the numbers don't add up the cube has 2 dim (month and Drivers in blue) the first member of Drivers (baseline) has only the value in the first month, while for driver "a" "b" "c" i can data entry after the first month my goal is to copy the…
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How to Change the Export Excel Column Header and Total column Color
Hi, Please guide me how to amend the color for column header and total column color. Thank you. Sin yee
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No transfer of selections made in play mode into design mode without having been asked
Other than in the versions before, Board 14 transfers temporary selections done in the play mode automatically to design mode when switching to design mode. This very quickly leads to the screen being saved incorrectly (with the wrong standard selection) if you are not very careful. And this results in a lot of extra work…
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Level 300, Module 305 - Functional Q 1
Hi, I am currently getting an incorrect response for the CY Forecast amount for Grey Pearl Stud. I have checked the steps and instructions numerous times but just cannot seem to work out where the issue is. Having looked at what the correct answer/amount is, it seems for whatever reason my procedure is doubling this…
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Skipped rows of Cube value of 0
Hi guys, I have some issues that have skipped rows of Cube value of 0 but in Data Reader ETL is displayed well. I have unchecked Hide zeros and checked differentiate zero and null. Anyone have some ideas or solutions about this one? Thanks previously
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Suggested value in Excel Add-in
Hi ! Is it possible to show suggested value feature to user when using excel add in ? Also can I put data validation check in excel add in?
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Enhancement Request of ALM (Transporter)
ALM (Transporter) shows position information even if we do not change anything of structure of cubes, entity. This makes customer confused. This is impact for customer to increase checking cost which meta data needs to migrate via ALM. Could you improve to filter position information?
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Level 200, Module 212 - Income Data Issue
After I click on the "Update P&L" label, the P&L comes through but only for the expense data. The income data does not populate. In the training documentation, this data is included. Where could I have gone wrong?
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Blob Cubes (Custom) Upload and Download Functionality
I'm creating a screen within our business planning capsule that will be a single data view object intended to store various file types that offer supplemental information over what's provided in the business plan. I would like for the file inputs to be heterogenous, so that I don't have to create a cube specific to the…
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2025 May Badge of Impact
May is here and with the start of a new month we're very excited to share with you a new video series called CommunityCast. In this series, we'll be providing a quick round-up of recent updates in one minute or less—ranging from new content, programs, technical and structural updates to Community, and so much more! Stay up…
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Upgrade/Migration tool
Hello team, I expect to be considered enhancement of a tool to reduce the workload involved in verifying/testing after the version upgrade. The desired functionality includes exporting and comparing positional information and setting values displayed on the screen. If it is difficult to provide comparison feature, using a…
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Font size of screen name
Hello team, Font size of screen name on B14 is smaller than B12 or older. I know it is by design on B14 in current. I expect it can be updated to be changeable in design mode or mask setting. Could you consider this in new release? Masa,
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trigger broadcast functionality via procedure launcer
Our customer has the broadcast license and is currently sending content critical time-controlled status reports. We would liked to trigger this automatically at the end of the data preparation with the Procedure Launcher and not (necessarily) delayed (since the data preparation has to be finished) by the broadcast…
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The variety of line styles for the Cartesian graph.
Hello team, Let me post the idea of "the variety of line styles for the Cartesian graph". Customer would like to choose dashed or dotted line as line style. Especially, it is benefit to use monotone printing the graph or easy to identify the each lines. Could you please consider this feature in new release? Masa,
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Entity member sorting
In configure layout of data-view, I have taken cubes with required dimension and the entity on which I want to apply filtering and sorting. For sorting, I am using the algorithm -…
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Smart Import should accept the uploading of zero
Currently, in Excel if I enter a zero "0" as a value, when I upload using Smart Import, it says it is successful but no value appears in the app. It is as though Board (Smart Import) doesn't know the difference between a null and zero! This is a very big pain for us where users often need to upload zero as a valid…
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Hover-over cards not appearing on Bubble Chart object in B14
Hi, We've recently migrated a reporting capsule to B14 from B12 and it's come to our attention that hovering over bubbles in the Bubble Chart object, no longer brings up the card which details the values of the block. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a setting I now need to toggle on, or is this a bug? Cheers!
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Selecting Months for Single Month & Multiple Month graphics
I am trying to set up a screen that uses a single month selection for a waterfall chart and multiple months for a graph of monthly figures. I have managed to get a procedure that selects the last twelve months, however I could not use this selection alongside the waterfall chart. I have tried using a custom time entity but…