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Is there a way to extract a file name in the data reader ETL?
Hi Board Community! I am working on creating an ETL logic to dynamically extract months to a correct fiscal year. The complication comes in because there are some of the future years that need to roll up to the year end of the particular (past) year. I know that there is the formula in excel that allows you to extract the…
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(SOLVED) Count contents of a BLOB cube
*** See solution in comments below *** Original Idea: I would like to be able to count the contents of BLOB cubes - I want to know how many records they hold and I want to compare this information. To give some context. I have a blob cube which contains property images. Not all properties have images. For those that do,…
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Level 200, Module 205: Procedure ACT Sales Data Upload not in the Procedure dropdown option
I created the procedure ACT - Sales Data Upload but it is not in the procedure dropdown when I created the Call DB Procedure. It is grayed out. What did I miss?
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Allocation with Board
1. Abstract Board is a great platform for building a planning and budgeting model and it accommodates large and complex allocation models. Board can process a lot of data in a short amount of time. The platform is also very flexible and allows the full customization of your allocation model. 2. Context Board is a great…
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IF THEN ELSE
In the if-then-else step in procedure, A feature can be added where we can compare the value of two cubes instead of just numbers. It might save lot of efforts.😀
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Data Access Control Architecture
1. Abstract Database and Application security refers in general to the range of tools designed to establish and preserve data confidentiality, integrity, and availability. In Board terms it is the definition of the various access levels so that the users are presented and can modify only data relevant to them and for which…
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Cube Visibility based on User
Hello, According to documentation, it should be possible to apply Cube Visibility based on User. See screenshot below. But I can't get it to work. Even if I'm logged in as Patrick Stewart (as in the Board case below), and I deselect Patrick from Cube "User enabled", I will be able to see whatever is ticked in the Granted…
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Net Present Value
Hello, I've been trying to find documentation on the Time Function Net Present Value - what it does and how it works. Can't find any documentation. The function seems to be available in a Dataflow, but not in a Dataview. Do you know? Thank you
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Drill Through - footer conditions in query
For now its possible to define 'Where' conditions only. It would be helpful to define footer conditions too. Examples: GROUP BY ORDER BY LIMIT FETCH FIRST X rows only ... Applicationexample: Our users can do a drill through on P&L Lines and can get all booking details --> its a large table in datawarehouse. In some cases…
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Improve the Community experience with Accepted Answers
Members make Community great, and we’re thrilled about all the engagement we’ve seen since re-launching the Board Community in early February! Both the Platform Forum and Academy Forum have been buzzing with activity, and we thank all members for their dedication to timely and detailed responses to questions posted.…
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What is the best way to setup a demo database?
We would like to setup a demo copy of our database where we can demo to user groups but mask customer data. Is there a best practice way to achieve this?
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Is there a way to default the naming convention of exported excel tabs to code for the entity export
When exporting a Board screen to excel and choosing to page by a given entity that within Board has been set to "code" as the default setting for that entity, the exported tab pages within the excel document appear as the description of the entity and not the desired code of the entity.
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Add setting to allow horizontal display of "@Selection" substitution formula
In the image below, I'd like to display all of the selections horizontally on the grey banner, which is not possible using the substitution formula "@selection". Current workaround is to create multiple labels for each entity selected (8 in this example) and individually place them side by side on the banner which can be…
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Level 200 - Training Env not loading
Anyone can help with this issue? My training environment doesn't seem to load today. It was fine until yesterday.
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Option of restricting elements for selectors
Up to now, for a selector, there was only the possibility to display all elements or only the active elements. However, I had the requirement in many projects that the selectable elements should be restricted depending on other filtering. Reasons could be for example: Elements of entities are no longer valid, but should…
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Number Scaling - formatting options
The new function is pretty good - but it would be really good, if there would be some formatting options for the number scaling —> e.g. k instead of K or T instead of K etc. Also deactivating the suffix would be great - so just having the value without K/M/B
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Database Security / Transporter
Hi All, it would be really useful if the Board Transporter Tool would consider and work also with the Database Security Profiles. There are many alternatives (especially for customers working with the Subscription Hub) but it would be a great enhancement. Thanks, federico
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Enhance user experience by adding search functionality
Sometimes, when working with databases providing more than just a couple cubes or entities, finding the cube or entity you're looking for in the drop-down lists can be pretty cumbersome when no search function is available. Consider this example from the action library for calling a procedure If, however, developers would…
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Extract Cubes in Parquet-File
1. What is your idea? Board has multiple steps to extract data from cubes: Extract Cube Export Data View to file Export Dataset Extract all cubes All these steps save data as text or csv-files. We could save disk-space and increase performance by using parquet-files. Head-to-head comparison CSV Parquet Row-based storage…
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New Time Function "Year End-" and "Year Start Value"
1. What is your idea? The Idea is, to have additional time functions to easily get the values for year end and year start, also for previos years. 2. What specific problem are you trying to find a solution to, or what new scenario would this idea respond to? Independent from the current time selection, I want to display…
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Option to Hide Tabs
Dear all, The tab container is probably one of the most used objects across many applications and in my experience an absolute customer and user favourite. Sometimes, it is necessary to remove tabs for a certain situation but you want to keep the contained dataview for future use. Saving a backup screen, deleting the tab,…
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Default Entity Member Labeling Convention to Excel Tab upon Export
When exporting a Board screen to excel and choosing to page by a given entity that within Board has been set to "code" as the default setting for that entity, the exported tab pages within the excel document appear as the description of the entity member and not the desired code of the entity member. It would be helpful to…
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Codes and customer description in multiple columns.
Need to bring codes and descriptions in axes of the layout separately as individual items rather than single item. The requirement is to have the codes and descriptions of the multiple entities in separate columns rather than code or desc or both in 1 column for each entity in the axes. This also resolves the sequencing…
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Possibility to define datetime function formatting
ISSUE: Datetime is always restricted to the cultural settings of the user (or in some cases the computer) that uses it. This could cause issues when, for example, an export of a cube that has a timestamp in it (that was created using datetime) is expected to arrive in certain formatting, but a user with a different culture…
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Hide Screen List configurable depending on users
hide screen list options is a ON/OFF option it could be useful have the capability to deactivate it for some users (e.g. administrators or process owners for an application). It could be made on different levels: as default, in security profile settings (e.g for administrators) at capsule level, defining exceptions on some…
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Close Message Option
It would be great if the option existed to close the informative Board messages that appear on the screen (example below). Although they only appear for 3-4 seconds, it can be frustrating when trying to work quickly as sometimes the next button you want to click is behind this message. It would be helpful to be able to…
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Automation possibilty for "Sparsity Optimization"
We very much appreciate the new sparsity optimization feature that makes manual export/import obsolete. It would be great if this function could also be automated. There are use cases in which plan data is cleared or zeroed out again, for example, but the sparsity remains full. Therefore, it would be very helpful if the…
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Deleting entity elements made easy
There is already a guide on "How to remove obsolete entity members". However, this process should be much easier. It would be great if entity members can be deleted easily by hand. Especially, in big databases that would be a huge relief because it wouldn't be necessary to reload the entity and cubes. As a bonus, it would…
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"Min" and "Max" as aggregation-functions
It would be very helpful to be able to select "Min" and "Max" as aggregation-functions on an entity, in addition to the existing "distinct count", "average" and "sum" (see second screenshot). Right now it is possible to display the min- and max-values as a row total (see lower dataview in the first screenshot), but not if…
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Ability to set the color of background of the value on a card
Currently the background color can be set for all elements except for the background where the value is shown. This does not allow for the card to be to fully formatted to the company branding, as shown with the white box around the number. My client would like to set this to transparent. While this can be achieved with a…