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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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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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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. https://player.vimeo.com/1103609560 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…
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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: 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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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…