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How to substract last month from this month using procedure
Hi there, We use Board 12.3. I want to know how to calculate the total of product B. Please see the table below. I want to know how to create cube and use procedure to calculate this result. Jan.22Feb.22Mar.22Apr.22productA999b.200100100productBa.500c.300200100 (c)300=(a)500-(b)200 This cube has Date types. Thanks for your…
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Power User prohibits procedure execution
hello I want to limit the procedure execution of a user who has a Power User license. Even if you turn on "Deny procedure editing" in the profile the following situations cannot be avoided. -> Procedures can be set with label actions -> You can execute the procedure from the label in play mode. I have a Power User create a…
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Community Update July 5, 2022: New Menu Links
Hello Board Community, Just a quick update this time with three changes to the top menu navigation here on the Board Community: Two new external resources have been added to the Resources menu, and the Ideas section has been promoted to the top level. Board Manual The Board Manual is Board's home for our platform's…
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Pager different selection in a container "Panel"
Hello I would like to create a 2 panels with the same dataview but with not the same selectors. The goal is to see the data in both dataview in same time and then easily transfer data from the first layout to the second layout through a procedure. Currently when I select a pager in the first panel, that changes also the…
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Slow DB loading
Hi, I have a scheduled daily procedure to load the data into Board. I noticed that before running the procedure steps the Board Engine loads the DB in memory. This is correct, since I scheduled the service restart every night. The problem is that the DB loading takes around 2 hours. I can't change the time schedule of the…
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Cell Formatting
Rich Wojcik, Paola Mason and I are working on a scorecard solution. We would like to refine the formatting to be cell-specific. Consider the following scorecard as our starting point, and I'll describe our challenge. On the above scorecard, we want to be able to identify percentages with a (%), dollars with a ($) and…
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Manage Web Broadcasting & SendTo
Hi everybody, I have found out 3 functionalities not included that (I think) will help a lot to administrate this feature. 1- View/Manage user's SendTo lists to see what are beign sent. 2- Copy&paste broadcast/sendTo schedule so you do not need to replicate all the process (choose presentation, addressees, etc...) just to…
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Community Update June 17, 2022: Merger of Community Forums Completed
Good news, everyone! The Board platform-based forums we mentioned earlier this week have successfully been merged under the Board Platform Forum. Be sure to post all of your Board platform-related questions in this space going forward. Tagging Did you know you can tag your forum posts with applicable terms and labels to…
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BoardEngine service will not stop
Hi, I'm running Board 12.2.0.0.67608 on-premise. I need to change the diagnostic log level settings in the config files, but when I try to stop the BoardEngine I get an error,Windows could not stop the Board Engine service on Local Computer. Error 1061: The service cannot accept control messages at this time. The service…
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Excel and Web log in at same time
Hello, It would be very helpful if we could be logged into Board Excel and Web at the same time. There are many times that I am monitoring users submitting data on the Web and I'm in Excel refreshing files. This causes me to get logged out of the web and go back in, click on the capsule, then screen, then select the…
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Get cube values for first and last element of selection
Hi, I need to show in a data view a column with the values related to the first element of a selection. I also need a column with the value for the last element. For example, the selection is for the months from January to June. I want the values for January. I used the ANALYTICAL FUNCTIONS > First Value, setting the From…
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Effective approach to copy data from one version to another
When we need to copy data from one version to another, we usually adopt the temp cube approach. Copy data into temp cube without the version entity and then write it to the original cube into another version. This could be quite a bit of a task if you are required to copy data for all models, there could be a large number…
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Community Update June 15, 2022: Merger of Community Forums Coming Soon
BoardVille Community Members, I am excited to share that we, the BoardVille Community team, are in the process of making a series of enhancements to the BoardVille Community to improve your community experience, optimize content, bring you more relevant news and updates, and much more! But first, a quick introduction: I’m…
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Block hidden if
Hello, I have a layout with 3 blocks. All have data entry available. I would like to display the third block only if the user has selected a specific entity. Let's say my entity is the year, I would like to display the block "c" only if the user has selected the year 2022. If the year is not 2022 i would like to see only…
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Month entity without year
Hi, I'm using a dataview for sales analysis. On the rows I have the year entity. I need to put the month on the columns, to get 12 columns of data (1 for each month). If I use the Month entity I get one column for each month of each year. My Year entity has 5 years, so I get 60 columns. Can the month name be extracted from…
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List of all functions that can be used in dataflows
Hi to everyone, it would be very useful to have a document that lists all the possible functions that can be used within the dataflow layout. I have already opened a ticket to Board and they confirmed that this document does not currently exist.
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[IFRS16 APP BLA] Cube Corruption
Hi, We recently had a problem with a procedure because some cubes were corrupted, are there any best practices to follow for to prevent this problem in the futute? The version of the BLA database is 12.1. Thank you in advance for any response, Francesco. ------------------------------ Francesco Tufaro Consultant TECHEDGE…
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Hide screen in menu
Hello, I'm starting with the new board (V12.2) and I'm struggling a bit to add a menu. With the previous version (V10.7) I was able to select manually the screens to add in the menu. Unless if I'm wrong, it seems with the new version we cannot exclude some screens ! (it's all or nothing) I have some screens that i want to…
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Data View with data entry and pre-set values
Hi guys, I have come across this when trying to create a new screen for a revenue centre. What I want to create is a similar function to Vlookup in Excel (see below). Client is existing entity in Board. Class is a data entry cube. And i'd like to have revenue to look at another mapping table. When user entered class as…
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Corporate Identity Designer in BOARD 12.2
Dear community, We are going to updated from BOARD 10.3 to BOARD 12.3. Currently, we are missing the Corporate Identity Designer in BOARD 12.2 Has anyone seen this feature in BOARD 12.3? Regards, Jörn ------------------------------ Jörn Constabel Controller Braunschweiger Flammenfilter GmbH Germany…
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Copy / paste in dataview
In a dataview with data entry, we would like to copy a cell to several other cells (on other rows) in the meantime. Today, we can only copy one cell to another one cell, only.
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Activate Dataview layout preview refresh on demand only
Hi, Currently we observe very often that when end-users are trying to reconfigure a layout, the preview is trying to refresh every time a modification is made. In some cases, it can generate 10 or 20 layout refreshs (when adding / removing axis or blocks) that are useless and can overload the sytem. It is especially a…
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BOARD 12.3 - data entry via PASTE has 'changed'
Is there anyone else using 12.3 that has discovered you can no longer 'paste' values into a dataview and have them go across the row? when you paste into a dataview, regardless of what cells you select BOARD now pastes them down the column. Yesterday in 12.2 they went across the row... today after we've upgraded to 12.3…
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Error: The client application is not known or is not authorized. (B12.2 Rev 0.0.67608)
Hello When I want to log on to BOARD 12 via a fully qualified URL, the message The client application is not known or is not authorized appears. With a simple URL it works. Restarting the engine did not bring any success. What do I have to change in the BOARD server settings? ------------------------------ Matthias Alles…
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Diagnostic log
Dear all, we are in progress to updated from 10.3 to 12.3 As written in the release notes, a new logging is available in BOARD 12. The diagnostic log. The only documentation I found is this: Other enhancements Does anyone know how to configure the verbosity level of the logging? Regards, Jörn ------------------------------…
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Pie Chart Appearance
Hello, The Pie chart is a quick way of grasping the contribution share of factor members in measures e.g. quantity of products sold for a time range under product division hierarchy. Presently the pie chart appearance shows the member share in the order in which entities are uploaded. However the visualization of the pie…
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"Sync to Data model" webinar
I came across a webinar about the "Sync to Data Model" functionality which was released in the 2021 Summer release but unable to find it now. Would anyone have the link to the same or guide me on where can I find it? ------------------------------ Navan Mehra Senior Consultant Board Community Australia…
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Files to tidy up the presentation
Let the users create some files in presentation menu to have a better view in the menu
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Input with the French numeric keypad : revert dot to comma
When we use the French numeric keypad, Board write 2.2 (for example) whereas the separator expected is the comma. It would be useful if Board revert the dot to comma in order to we can use the French numeric keypad. Thank you
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Enable hidden Dataview blocks to show in Sliding Toolbar
Hey, so right now it is possible in the sliding toolbar in the data icon to disalbe/hide datablocks. It would be good to have a field in the layout of the dataview to enable hidden blocks for be shown in there as well. So you can not only disable datablocks, but enable hidden datablocks as well.