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How to Format a Report and Create Entity Members
1. Abstract Financial statements often require indentation of account names, and special formatting of account names, values, column headers, totals & subtotals. Such formats may include highlighting, bordering, adding prefix/suffix, number formatting, and more. The dataview object can be fully customized leveraging…
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How to Setup Microsoft IIS with Board 12 Web Server
Functionality Board 12 Web Server includes its own HTTP Server, but for multiple reasons, you might want to publish Board under IIS. Publishing Board under IIS may be convenient in these cases: Need to use a certificate and publish the site through HTTPS Need to publish the same Board Engine through multiple sites with…
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Introducing The Community Experience Survey
At Board Community, your feedback matters, and in an effort to bring you a Community experience complete with timely support, vital knowledge sharing, and rich engagement and networking, we've created a Community experience survey that allows you to provide feedback—in your own time. This anonymous survey will be monitored…
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Troubleshooting the Board Procedure Launcher
Feature The Board Procedure Launcher is a tool available for On-Premise installations of Board. The Board Procedure Launcher allows a Board Database Procedure to be executed from a Windows command line. Details about this functionality are available in the article Board Procedure Launcher. Problem When you run the Board…
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Unexpected behavior in Smart Import (Value in cell xx must be one of the suggested values)
Hi, I have encountered some unexpected behavior in Smart Import that I hope the community has an answer for. I am building a Smart Import screen, and it involves 4 month columns. One of the columns is mapped to the entity Month, 3 to text cubes. All 4 columns have "suggested values defined", all of them look at Month code,…
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Troubleshoot Missing Relationships
In this article we will focus on different types of relationship that would result in an unstable database and should be avoided at all cost. 1. Missing bottom-up relationships: In a Board database where the above hierarchy is true, and you see different down totals when displaying reports with Customer by row as opposed…
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Board Procedure Launcher
Functionality The Board Procedure Launcher is a tool available for On-Premise installations of Board. We highly recommend running this type of procedure using REST APIs. The Board Procedure Launcher allows a Board Database procedure to be executed from a Windows command line (CMD), and can therefore be scheduled through…
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How to Open a Case With the Red Banner Error
Creating a Case Should searching the extensive knowledgebase available here on the community platform not yield the information you require to resolve your issues, a new ticket can be created on the Board Customer Support Portal. The steps below illustrate how this is achieved. Go to https://support.board.com/ Log in using…
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Community's Training Category Is Live!
Customers and partners can easily browse and register for eLearning courses, whether online or instructor-led, in-person or virtual, right from Community! The Training category includes: Course Catalogue: review all our training options without registering on the site. Learning Library: access free-to-use resources from…
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Run executables within Board
Hi, Is it possible to launch external applications within Board, ex open a MSWord file directly from Board? Thank you. Cheers, Tony
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How to manage security with metadata
1. Abstract Security management is always a complex subject in big applications with large perimeters, we often need to manage multiple roles and rights for a single user, and the best solution to manage that is via the subscription hub Metadata, let’s see what the advanced options are of this feature 2. Context In…
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Creating some uncommun charts
Hi together, I'm a Board newbie. I just wanted to ask if there is any possibility to create some of the following charts in Board since I could'nt find the option to create these (in Ver. 12): Hexbin Sunburst Network Graph Mekko Chart Box Plot Histogram Geomaps Slope Graph Heat Table (not Heat Map) I would be very grateful…
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Auto Max Item Number
*NEW - includes video demonstration. Build Along with Board Follow along as we bring this step-by-step guide to life. https://player.vimeo.com/1103609560 1. Abstract One of the initial steps of the development phase in a project is the creation of entities. The most important property of an Entity is the Max Item Number…
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How and when to extend tuples: Beyond what is written in the documentation
Hi My question is regarding when to use Extend calculation on new tuples for all members of. By experience I would know when to active on correct dimension, but there are occasions when it’s strange and some even don’t make any sense. What also makes someone confused is the text in the documentation: The values in the…
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R integration guide
Hello, I am interested into running ML-driven forecasts for data coming from a simple cube using R. From this article from the Board 12 reference manual, I see that it is possible: https://www.boardmanual.com/2021/summer/whats-new-release-notes/spring-2021-release/Main_features/R_integration.htm However, being new to Board…
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Broadcasting & Notification Tool
1. Abstract Board offers the possibility to have a notification system to inform people about different events that are happening in the application, it also offers the possibility to share information with a larger population outside the application. 2. Context Three different features allow us to spread and share…
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Announcement: On-Premises Customers
Please be aware of a critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-42915) in some of our On-Premises ODBC drivers. This vulnerability affects only On-Premises installations of Board ODBC drivers with the HTTP proxy enabled. It is related to the following currently supported drivers: Oracle 8.0 ODBC SQLServer 8.0 ODBC DB2 8.0 ODBC…
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Navigation - Tips & Common Mistakes
1. Abstract Talking about navigation, there are several best practices and tips to avoid common mistakes and sources of issues. 2. Content No calculation in navigation procedures: based on what has been discussed in the Application navigation design article, the usage of navigation procedures should be very limited since…
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ICYMI: Set notification preferences to receive updates automatically
Are you enjoying the new Board Community experience but want an easy way to learn when new content becomes available? We’re here to help! Get automatic updates when new technical content is published to popular sections like the Best Practices and How-to Guides, and hear what the Community is buzzing about here in the blog…
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Mashup
Does Mashup function work - as described briefly in Board 10 Chapter 11 (Board Web HTML5 Server) ? mashup html5
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Procedure "Background execution" doesn't let me navigate the application while Wait is running
Hi, I am confused about the "Notify execution" feature when creating a new procedure. My goal is to make sure that a cube is cleared after 10 minutes of a client entering a screen. I was hoping to achieve this by creating the following procedure: All the messages are set up the same, only the time and the icon is different…
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Application Navigation Design
1. Abstract Navigation is "the act of moving between screens of an application to complete tasks". It is about managing the path that the users can follow when using an application and therefore it involves defining the different navigation steps (based on the level of flexibility required) and eventually combining them…
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Understanding BEAM
Hi everyone, I'm currently testing the Forecasting with BEAM, but I can't get it running. In my first try, I had a cube with month, customer, product, scenario and version and created a second cube for beam with the same dimensions (Absatz & Beam - Absatz). Those two cubes are not in the screenshots, I just wanted to…
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Error 1064 after update of on-premise installation to Board Version 12.5
Hi all, I have updated on the local machine to version 12.5. However, the Board Engine can not be started, stating the error message 1064: An exception occurred in the service when handling the control request. The previously installed version was 12.4 and this was working. Thanks for any hint on how this issue could be…
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Checkbox column in Smart Import
Hi, I am building a page with a smart import object, and we would like to have a column that is a checkbox. Is this possible? I have not been able to find a setting for this. Alternatively, we will use a dropdown Yes/No picklist, so we do have a plan B, but I wanted to confirm if this is possible or not. Thank you,…
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Is there a way to have rows with no data not displayed in a drill down screen?
When drilling down through data on a report, I would like to be able to make it more concise by not having rows with no data be hidden. The below highlighted rows are examples of what I'd like to not be shown.
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Top 5 Reasons to Attend Board Beyond
It’s been four years! We haven’t had an in-person event since 2019 - so this is long overdue - and we’re beyond excited to host you in London! Join us at Board Beyond, a full-day event featuring an incredible lineup. Our team designed a packed agenda for those short on time but with a bias for data-driven action. Why does…
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Data Flow with Change of Entity Element
Hello :) I want to make a DataFlow that shifts the value from one Element to another (in the same Cube) e.g.: Test_Entity: element1, element2 before DataFlow: cube: element1: 0 element2: 10 after DataFlow: cube: element1: 10 element2: 0 Thank you Kind regards wolfgang
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Announcing 'How-to Guides' to support specific use cases
Board is a powerful Intelligent Planning Platform, with a myriad of use cases that allow you to plan smarter and drive desired outcomes. The Board Community supports members getting the most out of their investment by bringing together a collection of expertise from across the ecosystem to guide you on your journey and…
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Enhancing Customer Experience through Case Prioritization and Classification
At Board, we are committed to putting our customers first and focusing on providing the best possible experience. To achieve this, we have designed a system for prioritizing and classifying customer support cases. This method allows us to efficiently address your concerns and ensure that you receive the assistance you…