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Community Voices: Adrian Alzona - 5 Personality Traits to Look for When Expanding a Team
Author: Adrian Alzona In this installment of Community Voices, we welcome guest author Adrian Alzona, Director of Information Technology of the Rossdown Group of Companies. Rossdown, as a group, is a farm-to-plate poultry business that operates in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia. As the Director of IT, Adrian leads…
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Input by Dropdown issue
Hi, I have set a dropdown input in a cube but I'm not allowed to save the data. Once I've done the input the new selections is displayed but the text is not displayed in red and I can not see the Save check box icon on the Context menu, although it is abilitated. If I click F5 I get the previous value. What I'm missing?…
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How to loop procedures
1. Abstract When developing business logic in board applications it sometimes becomes necessary to perform calculations individually for each Member of an Entity. In Board, this can be achieved through different means. This document is to review different methods of “looping” and their use cases. 2. Context During the…
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Level 200, module 206: Sales Planning Screen not showing data
Hi there, I completed all steps to build the Sales Planning screen, but it seems to not give me any output data at all. Can someone please help me out? I am out of ideas. The capsule selection was set to UK as Country, 2023 as Year, Budget as Version, and dynamic selection on currency from BUD - DF - Sales LC. However, it…
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Level 200, Module 205: Sales Planning Procedure
Hi, When I run the Sales Data Publish Procedure, the data is not cleared on the Sales Data Upload screen. I'm attaching a screenshot of my screen and the procedure. Could someone please help me understand why I'm facing this issue? Thanks Data Model Procedure: Capsule Procedure:
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3 Q's with Board's Director of Academy Mindy Waltz
Featuring: Mindy Waltz, Board Director of Academy. Welcome to another installment of Community Voices: 3 Q's—today we're featuring Board's Director of Academy, Mindy Waltz, and we're discussing three questions about how the Board Academy is supporting the recent B14 release! https://player.vimeo.com/1053386222 Quick…
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Transporter Tool
Can we use the transporter tool for transferring the metadata between data models in same server?
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Monthly Customer News Update - May 2024
Breaking news of May: Board 14 is now live KPMG talks about their Embedded ESG Process Jeff Casale sees an end to retail greenwashing PPD Global shares their story of S&OP process transformation Top 3 trends impacting finance teams in 2024 If you are not receiving our monthly newsletter, please let us know and we're happy…
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Level 200 Module 204: Problem entering my capsule
Hello everyone, I was almost finishing module 204, then my board instance went down and now I cannot enter my capsule (image below), it says it cannot find the requested screen in my capsule. Anyone had this problem before? Any tips of what can I do to solve this? Many thanks!
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LEVEL300, Module306: Regarding Functional Test Question 2.
Dear Board support team, LEVEL300, Module306: Regarding Functional Test Question 2, I obtained the following results. However, it was marked as incorrect. I am unable to proceed and facing significant difficulty. The setup was performed following the steps outlined in "Build indirect cost planning and allocation." Could…
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how to trigger a procedure from dataview cell based on another datablock
Hello, I know from the Board manual https://www.boardmanual.com/board14/capsules/screens/objects/data-view/using-a-dataview.htm#data-view-drill-anywhere that i can trigger a procedure from a dataview single cell. Drill-Procedure If a Drill-Procedure has been configured on the Data View, select a cell and click the Drill…
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Board server cannot start because the user storage is corrupted or not readable.
The question is related to the Board Engine - however it may possibly be related to the User folder. Unfortunately, we are unable to diagnose and can use assistance at this point. Three business days ago, the system administrator freed up 80 gb of data on the server because it was full. He removed old database backups.…
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dataflow with factor cube having less dimensions than target is not considered in text algorithm
Hello, I try to transfer text comments (no rich text) from one cube to the next one "filtered" by some matrix cube. This picture shows the dataflow factors (two factor cubes, one target cube): The target cube has 8 dimensions. These 8 dimensions are partly present in the factor cubes: cube a: 7 out of 8 dimensions cube b:…
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Error that table borders are not displayed
Hello. I have a problem where some of the borders on the left side of the data view I am creating are not visible. Please see the attached image for details. The left border is not displayed for industries colored in yellow. In another data view with the same template and settings, the borders are displayed correctly. For…
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Font Selection
Hi, how can I adjust Board to use font Arial instead of Open Sans by default? Thanks Maik
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Show all values in chart labels
Hey, is there any chance, that we can tell the chart to show all the values of each series regardless of its size? Here is an example:
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Dynamic Replenishment Model: Key Calculations & Formulas
1. Abstract Retail replenishment is the process of counting the inventory you have left in stock and reordering the right amount of stock at the right time. In other words, it's the process of ensuring that you always have sufficient inventory in store to meet customer demand. 2. Content As part of the standard Board…
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About block type
If not a single column is displayed, the header color set in the block expression is not applied. Note that the header rules set in block style are applied. I want to apply the header color that is set in the block formula even when not a single column is displayed. The red frame in the image below reflects the green color…
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Need to compute percentiles. How to do this in Board?
Hello, For a given set of values we need to know the percentile which corresponds to each value. Cumulated Vertical % does not seem to help but I could be missing something. Say I want to know whether a given cube value is in 75th percentile or better? Thank you
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Maximizing your Board Support experience
Author: Björn Reuber, Community Captain and L3 Support Team Lead at Board. As a support leader with 14+ years of Board experience, one of the biggest advantages I see of our software is that you can do whatever you want with it (great!), but this might also be one of the biggest challenges from a support perspective…
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Level 200 Module 205 Sales Actual GBP are multiplied by 1.88
The issue is related to incorrect currency conversion in module 205. I encountered the same problem as Eduardo in this thread: https://community.board.com/discussion/16827/level-200-module-205-sales-actual-gbp-are-incorrect Even the incorrect numbers I have are EXACTLY the same as Eduardo's. What I noticed is that the…
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Is there an ETL function for counting row?
Hi, I've got a cube that requires a line reference number as a dimension (from the load table) - I'd like to add a row counter to the ETL in the data reader where this cube is populated, but I'm not sure what the function would be (or if one exists). Does anyone know what the function is or a workaround? Thanks!
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Yearly Cumulated Value + Detail by Year in block
Version 12.6 We have a MTD cube, with a selector of generic fiscal period (1-Jul, 2-Aug, 3-Sep…12-Jun). I have a block with MTD value with "detail by fiscal year" set and "Tme function>Yearly Cumulated Value (fiscal years checked)". No time entity in rows or columns. The MTD cube contains 6 years - all years are 0 amount…
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Input in Thousands - Decimal issue
Hi, We have a Dataview to input plan in Thousands. The column on the right is the input one. And the left one, which usually is hidden, is a the real amount. The right one is the left /1000. And has an invers algorithm, the left is the right x 1000. The issue which we don't understand is the following: we add 10 units on…
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Error On-screen selection
Hello, I am having trouble because even though I have narrowed down the entities displayed by screen selection, entities that are not selected in the data view are also displayed. There is more than one user experiencing this phenomenon, and even within the same capsule there are DataViews with and without this phenomenon.…
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Level 200: Module 201: Training instance is completely empty
I have accessed the training instance and it is completely empty. No Data Modules or procedures. I only have a capsule that is completely empty. The next two modules appears to require/expect some level of set up already.
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Split and Splat doubt
Hi, I have a dataview where Quarters are displayed in columns. In Q2 only two months are open. This dataview has a locking condition based on a cube that points the months that are open I have realized that when I do a input on Total Year the amount is spread on the weight of full Q2 and then this amount is spread on the…
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Error when changing entity relationships
Even if I reconfigured the entity relationship, it was not reflected in the data view. The data is displayed in the data view with the original settings. ① Apart from the time entity, I created an entity named "Month Stamp". (Entity items include 202402, 202403, 202404, etc.) ②I created another entity named "Last…
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How to remove the AVG letter from the table?
Hi BOARD Team, Under Configure Layout, I calculated a data block by using Average. In the table, it will always show the AVG at the front. Anyway I can remove the AVG letter from the table. I only want to display the number, but not those letters. Thanks
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Level 300, Module 304: What is the answer for the Question 3:Update the P&L
My answer is 133779319. But it is said 'Incorrect'. Total Income in Total columns is 252,448,539 on my environment. It's same as shown in the example picture. Total Expensens in Total columns is -118,669,220 on my environment. It's same as shown in the example picture. For me, it seems that my answer 133779319 is correct…