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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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New eLearning: Getting Started with Board Signals for Customers
We’re excited to announce the launch of a new eLearning experience: Getting Started with Board Signals for Customers. This training is designed to empower learners with the knowledge and tools they need to confidently apply external market insights to real-world planning and decision-making. Whether your role involves…
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New eLearning: Getting Started with Board Foresight for Customers
We’re excited to announce the launch of a new eLearning course: Getting Started with Board Foresight for Customers. This course is designed to empower learners with the knowledge and tools they need to confidently integrate external economic data into planning processes and drive data-informed business decisions. Whether…
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Struggle to understand NEXEL
Hi BOARD Team, After reading through the manual, I still cannot understand how NEXEL reference works. In our production system: Active cell is 5.6. Formula is =[@b;-1;*]/AVERAGEIF([@b;-5;*]:[@b;-5;+12],">0"). My understanding: [@b;-1;*] pointing to 7,162. Is it correct? [@b;-5;*]:[@b;-5;+12] pointing to Demand layer for 12…
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US Economic Outlook: July 2025
The U.S. manufacturing recovery is stalling—but not for everyone. In this month’s 10-minute outlook, Board Principal Economist Natalie Gallagher explains the evolving dynamics across the sector, and what they signal for the broader economy through 2026. If you’re connected to U.S. manufacturing—either directly or…
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🎉 We Have Our Board Champions Social Media Challenge Winners! 🏆
Our Exclusive Board Champions Challenge, #BoardAndProud (ending June 30), was all about fun, creativity, and sharing the Board spirit on LinkedIn – and wow, you delivered! 💥 👏 Congratulations to our winners: @Aelys Saux - Andros @Fabian Höfner - Villeroy & Boch @Bart Scott - CFO Solutions @Andrea Del Pero - Bios Management…
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Get to know the Q3 Community Captains!
Community Captains are front-and-center, paving the way for a more connected and impactful Board Community. Today we welcome four new Captains to the mix, ready and willing to connect and educate by sharing personal stories and advice with the ecosystem for the common goal of overcoming challenges and enabling success. We…
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Level 300- Section 305
Dear, While working on Section 305. i m having some confusion regarding below steps. How do i edit the drillthrough at step 5. At step 6, is it related to the drill through of the dataview. confusing since we need to remove block b and c. Grateful if i can have a quick reply. Rgds
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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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Beyond the Name: The True Function of a Center of Excellence
Author: Kevin Gough, Customer Succes Manager at Board and Community Captain A CoE is more than just a new department; it's about instilling excellence and consistency in the design, deployment, maintenance, use, and optimization of systems. Here's a breakdown of what a well-operated CoE offers: Governance: Establishes…
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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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Level 200 : 210 No Data on Expense Planning Data Views
Hello, I am struggling to populate data into both the Annual and Monthly Data views. I have gone through all the steps again. I have also re-run all data readers and the BUD - Initialize Budget procedure, but my view is still empty, and hence failing functional testing. My currency selector also shows 2/2 instead of 1/1 as…
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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?
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Overall Total for an Entity to be shown overriding the screen selection
Hi, Is it possible to get the Overall Total of an Entity so I can get the % of Total even when there's an active Screen Selection? The sample table below show all Entity. Let's say Entity A is selected in the Screen. I still want the All Entity Total to show 75 even when the table is filtered. I will use this value in a…
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Alternative to "Feed" for Banner Communications in On-Prem Version?
Hello everyone, We are currently looking into the feature called Feed, which is intended for banner communications (e.g., displaying important messages from administrators to end-users, deploy notes etc). According to the this link Feed , this feature is available in the cloud version of the system. We are running the…
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Last Value Funktion
Hi All, Is it possible to display the last value of a date type cube in a dataview? The cube contains the following time entitie: day, on which a Validity date is written. I tried it with the last value function, but that doesn't work. Does anyone have an idea, thanks.
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👋 Fixing the article on OpenID for on premise
Hi @Board Community, @Board Support, Is it possible to correct the template openid.config at the end of the article in link bellow ? It's full of typos and not even valid xml (<add /></add>!) and apparently not the right redirect url path too.…
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Add a calendar month entity within the time entity
Hello, I'm trying to add a calendar month entity within the data model properties. Calendar month is an entity which contains (JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH) without the current year written. I mapped all the month to the level below which is Month but the basic relationship functionality does not work properly. I can't select…
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Restore original screen view after - Apply my screen view -
Hi, any idea who I revert My screen view back to the original screen view? Br, Maik
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Can we scroll data in bar chart horizontally?
Hi all, I want to know that can we scroll data horizontally in bar chart by limiting the amount of datas let's say total amount of data is 10 data and we want to initiate only 2 data will be shown and the others left we need to scroll it horizontally. Is it possible to do like that? Thank you.
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Limitations when pushing data from MDB to RDB via Dataflow
All, Are we aware of any limitations when pushing data from an MDB cube to an RDBMS using a dataflow? Scenario Overview: We have an MDB cube composed of four entities - 3 General Entities + 1 Time Entity Entities Max Item Item Count Entity 1 100000 30141 Entity 2 1000 41 Entity 3 100 8 Month Infinity 204 The goal is to…
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Now is the Time to Build a Centre of Excellence (CoE)
Author: Kevin Gough, Customer Succes Manager at Board and Community Captain Finance teams face increasing pressure to deliver faster closes, sharper forecasts, and deeper insights while managing complex systems like ERP, EPM, RPA tools, and BI platforms. Despite these challenges, many teams still rely on tribal knowledge…
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FileRead ERROR:File Missing what is the causes of Datareader file missing?
Hi all, I want to know the causes why when I tried to run Datareader manually, FileRead ERROR:File Missing always be shown? I have checked the path is ok. Any ideas about this issue? Thanks.
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3 Q's with Akrem Abdelhafidh, Senior EPM Consultant
Featuring: Akrem Abdelhafidh, Senior EPM Consultant In this installment of Community 3 Questions, we sat down with Akrem Abdelhafidh of XB4 Consulting to get his thoughts on Board 14 and its exciting features, some pointers on how to ensure success in Board, and Akrem's favorite 'This vs. That' when selecting a formula or…
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Search function / Excel PlugIn
I want to use the search funktion in the Excel plugin für an entity's ID. Unfortunately, it's 20 characters long. Can I configure the search function so that I get the correct result if I only enter the last digits and not the full 20 digits? Look at the screen shots. 1.) 2.) I get no result :( I'm looking forward to your…
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Best practices how to show many columns in dataview (>10 columns with a hundred thousands data rows)
Hi all, I want to know the best practices how to show many columns in dataview with approximately >10 columns with a hundred thousands data rows in a dataview. Because I am stressfull a lot about limitation error rows limit issues. I have read many references from other forums/discussions about this one, and overall of…
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Aggregate functions for Board Cubes
Hi, if you display a Board cube in a DataView and group it by an entity, then a sum is always formed for the values from the cube. Is there also a way to form an AVG(), MAX() or MIN() on the individual values instead of the sum, so that an average or a maximum value is obtained from the individual cube values? I would like…
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Calculate Mix including Subtotals
Hi there, how can I calculate percentage mix including subtotals? At the moment it is calculated by group. The algorythm formula GT doesn't work since I have Years in the columns and it does the math for the sum of all years. However I need it by year. Thanks maik
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Getting Started With Board Cloud Connector (Hybrid Data Pipeline)
Abstract Every Board solution relies on connections to external data sources. In this article, we describe step by step how to link Board to an on-premises data source. Context Board Cloud Data Pipeline is a service that allows Board applications to access data from sources that are hosted on a public cloud or on-premises.…