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How To: Fix Board Add-in Installation Issues
In this article we will discuss about some issues related to Board Office Add-in installation. The most frequent issues are: The setup program office add-in fails. Board Add-in Disappears and must be re-enabled every time The export feature is disabled. (gray icon) The setup program office add-in fails Issue: The setup…
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Board 12 Installation Prerequisites
Web Browser Board supports most modern browsers with HTML5 capabilities. We recommend you use the latest versions of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox or Apple Safari. Note: For Board Cloud installations is Board Server and WEB Server NOT relevant Functionality A Board installation is made up of the following…
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Board Web: Application Settings
Functionality The Application Settings of the BOARD Web API Server are responsible of the following options: Web Server connection Authentication methods permitted Anonymous authentication activation Web menu display Chat activation Default Settings These settings can be customised. File location: "C:\Program Files…
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Create Report: Snapshotter
Functionality The Snapshotter is used to create exports of the screen you’ve been working on in different formats like PDF, MS Word, MS Powerpoint and screenshot. Further explained here B10.3 Create Report (boardmanual.com) How to Configure It The config file is already configured but might need some adjustments based on…
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A Simplified Sign-On Experience (SSO) Has Arrived on the Board Academy
We’re delighted to announce that single sign-on (SSO) has arrived to the Board Academy on May 17, 2023. The same streamlined sign-in process you currently use on the Board Community is now available for the Board Academy, allowing you to access both platforms with the same login credentials. How the New Sign-In Experience…
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Board Web Settings Overview
Note: The information provided here is for BOARD 10 and BORAD 12. BOARD Cloud: Changes to configuration files need to be requested via Cloud Support. Functionality Since BOARD 10 the Web Server is published via HTML5 and version by version it is enhanced with additional functionalities. This document provides developers…
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Board Mailer Service
Functionality The Mailer is the service responsible of sending emails when using the Board functionalities of Broadcasting, Subscription and Send-To. To activate it, it is necessary to configure the correct parameters within the following files located in the Board Web Server file system: Broadcasting.config Mailer.config…
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How to Enable SSL with Board 12 Web Server (HTML 5)
An SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificate is a digital certificate that authenticates a website's identity and enables an encrypted connection. SSL is a security protocol that creates an encrypted link between a web server and a web browser. BOARD administrators will need to add SSL certificates to their websites during…
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Introducing the Idea Exchange FAQ
The Board Community's Idea Exchange is a valuable space for you, the Community member, to share your feedback on how to improve and evolve the Board experience by directly contributing your suggestions to our Product team and voting on your peers' ideas. As such, we've put together an Idea Exchange FAQ which outlines Idea…
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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. 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 which needs to be defined carefully,…
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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…