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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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How to Change the Max Item Number
Max Item Number within an entity can be easily interpreted as the maximum amount of items you can store at each entity. However, it can also be used to reference data that is stored in a cube version. In other words, this attribute can determine how the data is physically stored as well as how it affects performance…
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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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Important Update: Changes to Board Cloud Security and Connection Settings
What’s changing? At Board, we prioritize safeguarding your data, information, and other assets managed through our platform. To ensure robust protection, we continuously enhance our cloud security policies. Starting June 30, 2023, we will close the port range 9700-9710 for incoming TCP connections. This change supports new…
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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
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, considering the effect it has on the performance of the application. 2. Context One of the entities’ most important…
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Smaller, non-obtrusive tooltips
When there is a button (image) in a table, when you mouse over it, a tooltip pops up to explain what it is. However, the tooltip is enormous! It gets in the way. It can be extremely annoying. Imagine two buttons (images) in a table, you want to click one but when you mouse over, the tooltip of the other gets in the way. It…
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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: However, being new to Board and R in general, I struggle to understand where to start and haven't found any guide / steps detailing how to…
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Extract geographic coordinates from map chart
THE IDEA I would like to suggest that the ability to capture the latitude and longitude position of the mouse pointer be incorporated into the MAP chart object. The pointer position is already displayed dynamically in the bottom left hand corner of a map chart but as an Easting and Northing coordinate and is not available…
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Export Cube / Entity View to Excel
Hey, after adding the feature "Export Impact Analysis data to Excel" in version 12.3 it would be great to have a similar functionality for the Cube View and Entity View in the Data Model section. In my opinion this would make documentations way more easier especially for big data models. Kind regards Thomas
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Enable data entry with "Vertical alignment"
In here, lots of customers are using following layout with Excel for budgeting. Put on measures(Infocubes) on rows. However, BOARD is not allowed data entry with this layout. When I put on cubes on rows with vertical alignment, data entry is not possible. I expect strongly with implemented this on board.
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Dynamically display of time periods in headings
It would help us enormously if we could dynamically display the time periods of the underlying data in the headings in Board data views. Always just a descriptive text like "Plan year" and "Plan year + 1" is not user-friendly.
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Dynamic Selection based on multiple cubes
Hi, sometimes when displaying for example a report showing sales and quantities it would be helpful to apply a dynamic selection based on both cubes (we could have items with sold quantities at zero sales value). Moreover it would be great also to have a dynamic selection based on a layout: in a report showing current year…
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Dynamic Header Dataview
Hi! At the moment we are able to view entity-selections in a lable. It be a huge relief to use the function within the dataview as dynamic headers instead of using ctrl-cubes.
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Dynamic Axis Scale for Waterfall
When setting up a Waterfall it can happens that the middle bars are so small (compared to the starting and ending bars) that it is impossible to see them. Hopefully in the web the marker is plotted outside the bar, so it's visible, but the request is to have all the bar enough large to be visible. It would be nice to have…
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Drill to Window/Popup
When I drill on a DataView a popup opens. When I drill to a screen a new screen opens (either in the same tab or an additional tab). It would be useful to be able to drill to a window so my new screen appears on top of the existing screen, but as a window. This way I can move the window around and still view the screen I…
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Drill Through - Allow ability to hand-type SQL in "Manual" mode for web client.
1. What is your idea? I'd like to create a drill through that returns * fields of a table/view by referencing one or many Board objects in the web client. Right now I have to individually specify each field that is returned by a drill-through instead of a simple SELECT * query. 2. What specific problem are you trying to…
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Drill down - allow developers to choose opening size of popups
When the drill-down is selected, and the popup window appears (rather than going to a screen), the user is often presented with the need to use the horizontal scroll bar to display the full width of the data displayed, or to click on maximise button ( [] ) in top-right of popup window. We, as developers, strive to minimise…
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Disable BOARD Menu in Web Client / General Start-Screen
Hi, we want our users to navigate in our own structure. That’s possible and easy to build and administrate with the current tools. But when it comes to the Web Client we have the left site BOARD menu. I know that some of the options can be disabled, but not the capsules browser. We don't want to use the capsules browser. I…
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Deny sharing option
On a reality with hundreds of users who appreciate and use the presentations abundantly, we want to have control over what they can share and what not. To achieve this, an on-screen option with a "deny sharing" flag might be useful. Once the flag has been activated, that screen can no longer be shared in any way (by…
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Datetime / Timestamp type cube
My idea Add a new type of cube : Datetime that store date and the time! Basically, it's the same as type date but support n decimal places to handle times like in Excel. Use case (exemple) : In my current project, users need to view the exact time when a task in the workflow has been completed and/or when a coworker has…
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Customise session timeout value
1) What is your idea? To be able to set the session timeout to be 20 minutes. 2) What specific problem are you trying to resolve? We are trying to reduce the security risk for a system built using Board. Long (60 minutes) timeouts leave sessions vulnerable to reuse by people other than the user. 3) What workaround have you…
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Corporate Identity Designer
In Board 10 we had the possibility to set Corporate specific colors and default formatting of objects. This was part of the System area "Corporate Identity Designer". This was a very handy functionality that should be re-instated. Too much time is being lost in formatting. Thanks.
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Configure layout block for quick layout
My first scenario is related to multiannual budgeting. Most of our users have excels with collapsed column for months of the history/next years. They expand to months level when they want to go in detail. We can show data for year, but when a user want to budget monthly level she can show another block "Detailed by" Month.…
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Collapse unbalanced Hierarchy
As of current the user will see everything on the screen in one big table. It would be good to be able to collapse each grouping down so you can view the table at a higher level click a drop down which would then show all the members underneath that parent. Similarly to how the regular hierarchies function.