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Experiences upgrading from Board 10.x to Board 12.x
Hi Everyone, I'm relatively new to board and as luck would have it, my first project is to upgrade one of our clients from version 10.6 to version 12.2, with more clients to follow for the remainder of the year. I've read the instructions for upgrading and regression testing, however I am interested to get people's…
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Board Community Celebrates International Women’s Day 2023
The Board Community invites you to join us in celebrating International Women’s Day (IWD) 2023! This year’s theme is #EmbraceEquity and recognizes that equity isn’t just a nice-to-have, it’s a must-have. A critical component of this year’s campaign is education—recognizing that Equity and Equality, while often used…
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@Selection on Blocks
One of the major issues we have with trend based dataviews and charts is having to use CY, CY-1, etc for current year and current year -1. This is very annoying to end users and causes us to "hard code" the years into the block header, meaning all reports must be updated each year, month etc. when we use block references…
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Introducing Board's Community Team
With the recent launch of our new Board Community experience, we'd like to pull back the curtain and introduce the team that helped make this migration possible and successful! It is with great pleasure we introduce our Board Community team. With a diverse background in customer success, content management, marketing,…
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Display internal Entity member ID
1. What is your idea? The Idea is, to display in the entity section of the database the internal ID of Entity members. 2. What specific problem are you trying to find a solution to, or what new scenario would this idea respond to? Board technology saves any selection on entity members on the internal ID of the entity…
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Collect and invite marketing data
We need a way to collect data from different platforms to load into Board. Fivetran would be a good option, but there is no Board Connector. Mainly it is about marketing data. What do we pay for advertising for etc? Does anyone have experience on this. An alternative would also be helpful.
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Extract cube/file to local path
The question below relate to a cloud installation of Board (v 12.4) Is it possible with a procedure (Extract cube) to write the file to a path locally on the user's computer. Shouldn't write the file to Azure Storage.
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Extract layout excel from drill down in Board 10.7 local and web
In local, I am able to drill down and extract the layout via Excel. I am not able to do the same in the web. The layout from which I drill down consists of a cube (hide) and an algorithm within which there is an image that I click on to drill. Could you help me? Attached are three screenshots which may be useful. The first…
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BEST PRATICES
Hi everyone, I wanted to put a question regarding the best practice that we follow with regard to masters (e.g., store master) or transaction files (e.g., sales file). E.g., 1) The date format for date code is YYYY for year, YYYYMM for year-month) & YYYYMMDD (year-month-day). 2) There should not be any breakage in linear…
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Repetitive DataFlows
Hello all, hope you are fine and doing well! I have following question: Can someone tell me how to easily adapt DataFlows with a similar configuration? Right now I have an entity with 100 items and I'd like to create a comparison cube with that entity (ACT,BUD,FC,PY). Each comparison has its own cube and I like to filter…
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Statistical functions NORMINV and NORMSDIST
Dear all, to implement a safety stock application on BOARD I need to use these functions related to normal distribution: NORMINV and NORMSDIST. I would kindly ask you: 1. Are these functions available only for Nexel and not for dataflow? 2. I was able to use NORMINV on Nexel but NORMSDIST does not work, is it supported? I…
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Zero-Based Budgeting
Hi all, I was keen on reading about the topic "Zero-Based Budgeting". Can anyone help me with any study materials or maybe the link to the webinar we had recently? Following is the link, for ref: A New Age of Zero-Based Budgeting (Thursday, Feb 25 2021) | Board Warm Regards Farifta Sanam Bora Business Consultant Simbus…
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Refresh selection in Board Add-in funcionality
Hello everyone, I'm using v.10.5.0 and I've come across the following problem: I have a layout in the client, with some selectors. I have exported the excel file, which I can connect to Board via Add-in. Then I have created a procedure which refreshes that excel, with "apply data selection" enabled (see image). But the…
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Data Entry Saving Methods
1. Abstract When saving data entry on a Screen, either the data entry Tick can be used or a separate save button. We’ll discuss which should be used, depending on several different variables. 2. Context Use of ‘on data entry’ triggers and save procedures are valid and applicable in different cases. To determine which…
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Board Academy not loading in Google Chrome
Is anyone else having problems launching Academy in Google Chrome? I'm on Mac if that makes any difference.
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Excel drilldown issues
Good Morning Everyone Some of our users are experiencing a problem where they can refresh data from Board in Excel, however when they try and drill into it nothing happens. Have any of you experienced similar problems, and was there anything you could do to fix it? We're using Board 10.0.1 and Excel 2010. Many Thanks…
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Excel drilldown issues
Good Morning Everyone Some of our users are experiencing a problem where they can refresh data from Board in Excel, however when they try and drill into it nothing happens. Have any of you experienced similar problems, and was there anything you could do to fix it? We're using Board 10.0.1 and Excel 2010. Many Thanks…
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CONNECTION or CUBE to .csv stored in FILE SHARE drive
Dear all, Maybe some of you have met the same issue: i would like to create a connection or a ROLAP cube to a ".csv" file stored in Shared Storage drive (GUI = microsoft azure) provided with full cloud version of Board (currently using 10.6). I could use the Shared Storage with:* Data Reader to load data in a cube (using…
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How to calculate Week to Date vs Week to Date LY
Dear Community, How do I accurately calculate Week-to-Date comparisons between current year and last year, for the current week? At the moment, I can only get it to compare current Week-to-Date to the full Week-to-Date previous year. This is incorrect. The question has been asked before but it has not been answered so I'm…
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Formatting of custom drill down layouts
Does anyone know how to format a custom drill down on Board web client (we are on 10.6). I.e. column widths, table styles, etc. It seems that you can only create and save a custom drill whilst drilling down from a Data View in Design mode and then editing the layout. But this provides no option to apply any additional…
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Server Command - Batchfile not visible
Hello Togehter, i try to execute a batchfile with server command step. I placed a batchfile in folder /Board/Job, but it is not visible. Is there more configuration needed? Thanks for your Help!
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Extract all Cubes – Filter Cubes by Entity
Description In Board it is possible to extract all cubes with procedure step “Extract all cubes”. It would be great to have an option to filter the cubes by entity or list of entities. For example I have a database with 1500 cubes. 600 cubes use the entity Planversion. I like to extract only all cubes with this entity. Use…
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Screen fit for various aspect ratios
Hi, Our masks are built with a custom aspect ratio that is close to 16:9 and we are using fit to width in the mask. Some users have ultra-wide monitors (21:9 aspect ratio) and for dashboards the screen renders completely differently and is no longer aligned. Chart labels are shifted over so that they are hidden from view,…
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Scroll bars - change their colour, make them more defined/visible
Can you see that image above? That's a Board scroll bar. It is very difficult for users to see, it can be frustrating for them, moving their pointer over the screen hoping to find where the scroll bar is. Is there a way to make it more visible? Can the colour be changed? ------------------------------ Michael Gerrard UNHCR…
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IDP | Users | Export - the Last Login and Account Status are not included
When I export the list of users from the IDP, I get a nice CSV file. But the columns Last Login and Account Status are missing. Why? Can these please be included. For analysis of users and their activity, this information would be very useful. Or am I missing something? ------------------------------ Michael Gerrard UNHCR…
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Board MS-Office Add-In
Hello everyone, I just have a simple question, but actually haven't found anything about it here in the community. Does Board's MS Office add-in also work with Microsoft Office Professional 2021? Does anyone already have this in use in this constellation?
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Subtotal
Hi How to Show Subtotal on table. ------------------------------ Shakti Dubey IT HARBINGER ANALYTICAL CONSULTING PRIVATE LIMITED India ------------------------------
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Winter Release 21
Hello everyone, has anyone migrated (from 12.1) to the new winter release (12.2) yet? I am very curious about your experiences here... Best regards, ------------------------------ Dominik ------------------------------
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Unbalanced Hierarchy in formatted report
Hi experts, I would like to know how have you all used unbalanced hierarchy in the reports? I have a P&L structure which I define as an unbalanced hierarchy in an entity. This works fine and shows the correct roll-up. the problem arises when I use this unbalanced hierarchy in a report * In the report, the parents should be…
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Unbalanced Hierarchy in formatted report
Hi experts, I would like to know how have you all used unbalanced hierarchy in the reports? I have a P&L structure which I define as an unbalanced hierarchy in an entity. This works fine and shows the correct roll-up. the problem arises when I use this unbalanced hierarchy in a report * In the report, the parents should be…