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Tooltip by Column Header
It has been requested several times (as in for example our most latest POC by BASF) to have the possibility to have a tooltip in the header of a block or column. This is a common practice in people that use excel since it helps understand what is within that column. Currently this can be done via a label with a tooltip…
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Description field for Cubes and Entities
In the datamodel, there should be a field "description" for each cube and entity. This would help documenting the purpose of each cube and entity. This would help the maintenance and the transfer of knowledge. for any developer, the good practice is to write comments in the code. This should be the same for Board:…
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Unreadable Data entry text due to insufficient ability to configure colors
For Grand Total Data Entry, there are three color settings in use: Grand Total ForegroundData Entry Grand Total ForegroundData Entry Grand Total Background When the data has been changed, the Data Entry Grand Total Foreground and Background are used. Prior to the data being changed, the Grand Total Foreground and Data…
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Unable to fully set data entry colors, resulting in unreadable text.
For Grand Total Data Entry, there are three color settings in use: Grand Total Foreground Data Entry Grand Total Foreground Data Entry Grand Total Background When the data has been changed, the Data Entry Grand Total Foreground and Background are used. Prior to the data being changed, the Grand Total Foreground and Data…
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More flexibility regarding format of import file
At the moment Board is quite limited regarding the format of import files, as one column per entity and just one column containing values are required → Table on the left side of the screenshot. It would be much more comfortable to be able to import more than one column containing values, for example values per year →…
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Renaming database procedures
I would like to be able to simply rename database procedures.
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Change date format with Capsule download
Cloud Version 12.6 In Cloud Admin, when downloading Capsules, the default date format is DDMMYYY. Using this date format sorts file names in an irrelevant order. Suggestion: Change date format YYYYMMDD
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Clicking outside of a Show Message box should not register the click as Yes
If you (accidentally) click outside the Show Message box, Board will register it as a Yes/OK and continue the Procedure. Suggestion: If clicking outside the box, nothing should happen.
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Enable capsule security the same way we now have Folder security
Problem When users enter the Board main page, they would like to see all the capsules that they have access to in one place. These capsule cards can be customized nicely to show some preliminary information using sparkline/footer, they can be color coded, have backgrounds and icons. However, now, if we want to make sure…
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Excel add-in data entry
Excel-add-inに他のExcelファイルで作成した複数の値をコピー＆ペーストしたいです。 Excel add-inに直接手入力を行うと背景色が緑色になり、保存を押下すると保存される認識です。 ですが他のExcelファイルで作成した値を複数コピー&ペーストすると値が消える+緑色セルにもならず、入力が正しく行えません。 他のExcelファイルから複数コピー＆ペーストすることは不可能なのでしょうか？
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Impact Analysis - Stop Pre-analysis
Impact analysis is a very powerful feature. The bigger a data model is, the more important are the insights that can be gained with it. At the beginning, a pre-analysis is performed to offer only available analyses to the user. For very large applications, this is very time consuming. In this example, it takes almost 5…
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copy procedure from one capsule to another
would be great if one could copy or save a procedure from one capsule to another where also temporary cubes are copied. That would massively simplify the copying or even moving of a procedure instead of recreating the procedure by copying the steps and re-creating the temporary cubes.
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change table/dataview from pivot to flat list
We are regularly getting the question from users if it's possible to change the standard BOARD pivoted table to a flat list. I know this functionality also from other BI-Tools and it would be great if the user can decide via dataview-menu if he wants to have a flat list shown. Default can be still the pivoted view, but the…
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Multiple attributes per entity member, in addition to code and description
It would be helpful if, in addition to the code and description, other attributes could be used for each entity member to increase flexibility in displaying the labels in reports.
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Log files for 'Reload all cubes'
Hi, when cleaning up Entities and removing deprecated members, it would be really useful if you could activate logging of rejected records in the procedure step reload all cubes. Without this feature you need to manually create data readers and manually check tons of files to find out why the records got rejected Kind…
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Cross-DataModel analyzer for relationships & entities saturation
In a multi data model environment, it could be useful have some centralized diagnostic functions for a quick control through all data models for some common controls, e.g. 1 Relationships (missing parent) 2 Relationship (missing child) 3 Entities saturation (e.g. that highlight all entities with saturation > 80%, or with…
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Disable layout refresh when switching to design mode
switching to design mode all layouts of a report are refreshed. In case of big layouts the developer should always wait … it wuold be wonderful if the layout are not refreshed as default .. then the user can decide if refresh them or not. It's the same concept of apply function or disable refresh in layout, but applied in…
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Support Icons in menu for the web client
Hi all, to my surprise, the icons included in the capsule menu, that could be managed in the Windows client, cannot be managed any more in the web client. I opened a support question about it and Andrea Mo suggested to post it as an idea... so here it is ! Please include the option to manage menu icons in the web, same as…
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RUNNING TASK : MORE POSSIBILITIES TO STOP A TASK
Some tasks are launched and, as an administrator, you can't stop them. It's very annoying, especially as there's no explanation. So you may have to open a ticket Would it be possible to have clear information about why a running task cannot be stopped? And perhaps have the means to stop it anyway, knowing the consequences?
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How can I calculate difference between two dates?
I want to calculate the difference in days, hours, minutes and seconds between two datetime stamps and I would be very interested to know how others have approached this. Currently I seem to be contemplating a solution which first subtracts one date from another to get a decimal. Then I would convert that decimal to days,…
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Clear Cube Insight
1. Abstract Clearing data in a Board application that has a large dataset, and high concurrency, needs to be done with care to avoid an unintended consequence. The approach you use to clear data has an impact on data retention and can impact performance. The purpose of this article is to review the options available for…
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Line break in Tooltip and format options
Tooltip should automatic create line break if original text has no break in it. Furthermore a format option for size and colour of tooltip text would be appreciated.
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Export List of Scheduled Tasks from Cloud Admin Portal
Can an option be provided to export the list of tasks setup in Cloud Admin Portal either to CSV or Excel? It will be useful for audit review as well as determine if any task schedules are overlapping.
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Extracting list of cubes via Entity analysis
Currently the list of cubes for a particular entity can be extracted through Impact Analysis which only provides the cube name and not other details. If the user is able to extract the list of cubes via Entity Analysis (by clicking on Go to Cubes), it will provide details such as Group name, Data Type, no. of Versions and…
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Compare date in column algorithm
Dear All, I have 2 cube, the first cube is a date cube with one dimension is article, the second cube is single cube with 2 dimensions are Month and article. I want to make a new single cube with 2 dimensions are Month and article. i want to fill the value in new cube by second cube with the logic is if the month in second…
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Connect Power Bi Connector to Local host
Hello, Is it possible to connect Power Bi with the local host server?
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ALM enhancement to update connection details with SAP DataReaders
When deploying a DataReader that uses the connection type SAP via Board SAP Connector the URL to connect to the source is not updated accordingly. Although the connection string looks correct the process is executed on a different server (QSS in this case). You'll have to manually change each DataReader (adding a field to…
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Start screen in Google with Board user and password
Hello all, we will start one screen in Board with a desktop shortcut. The problem is, that we must enter the Board user/password. Is there a way to pass on the board user and password? Kind regards Stefan
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The Database size got reduced from 24 GB to 19 GB after extract and reload of the database
Recently i performed Max item number change for few entities and for that we extract all of the database and do this change and then reload the database. There is no loss of any data for me, nor there is any issue but the only thing i observed was after the reload of the database the size of database got reduced to 19 Gb.…
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❓Follow-up with Security Filters and Refers "To"
A coupe of week ago, I post this (also ticket 00095180 ) However now that the 17 novembre patch fixed the issue we finally resume testing on the security again. While the patch improved on the situation we have one edge case that seems strange : when a user end up with no value in the entity Etablissement in his security…