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The Board 2021 Spring Release Is Now Available
With this latest release, customers have access to supercharged performance, unmatched flexibility, rock-solid reliability, and a seamless upgrade path from previous versions, together with several new features MAIN NEW FEATURES OF THIS RELEASE Unbalanced Hierarchies: Next-generation unbalanced hierarchy management…
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Board 11.3 : Initial thoughts
Hello all, After one week with BOARD 11.3 here are our initial thoughts What I like - For ADMINS - Data management : With Board APIs we can now share data with other softwares like an intranet portal - Reduce administration time : We are now able to sort members freely in entities. It will save us a lof of time! Another…
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Data Entry on Total effecting only unlocked months
Hey Guys, I'm just looking for some help on how to optimize this dataview. Right now the view is pretty basic. Block 1: The cube to data enter into, by Account by Month by Cost Center, Locked by Cube in block 2. Block 2: A cube to flag which months to locked, by month. I want to be able to enter a value into the total…
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[Upgrade Guide] A Guide to the Board 12.x upgrade
The scope of this document is to describe the steps to upgrade a Board Solution to Board 12.x. The document provides recommendations about how best to approach the database and capsule upgrade process by detailing best practice advice and highlighting important points of attention.
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Screen fit, Fit to single page changed after restart
Hello all, when I change the settings "Screen fit/Fit to single page" this settings will not be stored. When I reopen the same screen I must do the same again. Is there a possibility to save this setting? ------------------------------ Stefan Batalia Board Administrator Optibelt GmbH Germany ------------------------------
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Use data flow to write result of rule to infocube
Hello, when I apply a rule to a block in a data flow, the calculated rows do not get written to the output infocube. Is there any way around this? Eg; I have a rule 1: Units 2: Gross per Unit 3: Gross [=1*3] But when I run a dataflow with this rule, the value of 3 does not get written to the output cube.…
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The option to hide and show containers in realtime
Hi, It would be nice to have the option to show and hide containers without a screen refresh. This way you can add for example your selectors in a container and with a small button on your screen you can show or hide the container. This would give you more screen space because your navigation and filters can be hidden. See…
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Documentation on how to migrate from Board from 10.1.3 to 10.7
Hi, Is there a step by step instruction guide for upgrading Board from 10.1.3 to version 10.7 ? Can Board version 10.1.3 be directly upgraded to version 11.3 ? Please advise ------------------------------ Vincent Dsouza Business Intelligence System Analyst Victorian Order Of Nurses For Canada Canada…
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Better integration between Board web-client and Office Add-in
The current office add-in offers a good integration between Board and Microsoft office products, however the current add-in his design to work better with the windows version than the wed version of Board. It can be improved with the following: 1.Allowing copy/paste of Dataview layout(design) from the Web client to the…
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Board Chat Management
On the Board web client we have encouraged our users to communicate more through the chat. We have found that with proper user metadata set, and group chat, it can be used as a powerful communication tool. However it has limitation that reduce it's potential and should be addressed in future evolutions. 1. Better chat…
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Interactive selection - Option to display Code/Description or both
Hi, Currently, the "interactive selection" procedure step displays code and description on the pop-up window. It would be nice to have the option to choose (at procedure level) to display either Code, Description or both (similarly to how the Selectors work).
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What is the best way to "move" a value from an entity member to another member ?
Hi everyone ! I hope everybody is doing well. I'm currently facing a nice challenge in my new board application, regarding a quite classic "Phase in / Phase out" process. Context: It is a budget planning application, nothing very original about that :) In this application, we initialize the process by copying the latest…
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Launching batch file from BOARD 10.5.1
Hi, I am trying to launch a .bat file using a server side launch procedure to run a python script on the server. The batch file runs when it is manually launched on the server, however it doesn't run when called via the BOARD procedure. I was wondering if anyone else had experienced similar / has been able to launch batch…
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Web Client - Add Copy formating Settings
Like in windows client, it would be helpful a "Copy formatting Settings" option for all the elements you can create in a screen. At this moment, the way to reproduce this functionality is to "copy-paste" a formatted current element and edit it.
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SAP BW / Board connection
Hi community My company is going to introduce SAP and Board will likely keep data from a BW instance. I know that SAP Connector is able to do this. We are now investigating about costs related to this solution. More than the costs related to: - purchase of SAP Connector - human resources to analyze tables and set functions…
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Refresh partially instead of full screen
When we have a lot of data views/charts/etc. on a screen, refreshing the full screen from the procedure (Refresh Screen) can take some time. And in some cases full screen refresh is not necessary. There are certain scenarios when the procedure is executed, it's only impacting certain sections e.g. data views/charts. I…
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Services restart not working consistently
Hi, I restart the services each night via a batch file. According to Task Scheduler, the task is completed every night. Yet, half the time, databases are loaded into memory that have not been accessed since the previous day - indicating that the services did not restart. The main issue is high memory usage before the…
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Set up connection to MySQL
Dear Community, I need to connect to a MySQL database to import data into Board. Is there any help on how to set up connection using the cloud version of Board? I can't find any threads relating to this topic unfortunately. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide me. Kind regards Alicia…
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Services restart not working consistently
Hi, I restart the services each night via a batch file. According to Task Scheduler, the task is completed every night. Yet, half the time, databases are loaded into memory that have not been accessed since the previous day - indicating that the services did not restart. The main issue is high memory usage before the…
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Add job start time to Board logs
1) What is your idea? To have the ability to track the start time of procedures and data readers (Board jobs) so any jobs that run for longer than a certain amount of time can be identified and someone alerted to investigate whether the job has become stuck or is hanging. 2) What specific problem are you trying to resolve?…
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Confirm Board accessed source system in ProcedureExecution_YYYYMM.log
1) What is your idea? To be able to confirm whether Board accessed a source system or not when doing root cause analysis for an issue or debugging a Board implementation. 2) What specific problem are you trying to resolve? An example of trying to do root cause analysis for an issue where knowing whether or not Board has…
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Timestamp in SQLError_YYYYMM.log
1) What is your idea? Add a timestamp to the SQLError_YYYYMM.log error log to capture the exact time an error occurred. 2) What specific problem are you trying to resolve? We are trying to use the error log for debugging and we need a timestamp for when each error happens in order to do this. 3) What workaround have you…
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Web broadcasting 10.5
After upgrading Board to 10.5 I'd like to use broadcasting from web client. I can create a new Broadcast without problems. But it sends no mail to the receivers and I can't find error messages or logs. I guess I have to configure the new Mailer Service how to send the emails. Maybe using file "broadcasting.config" in…
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Improved Navigation: All Learning Resources in One Place
Hello BoardVille citizens, As our customer and partner community grows, learning and enablement are becoming increasingly important. We have numerous resources available to you within the community and now most of the education materials are stored in one place, under LEARN section in the navigation menu: * E-Learning…
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Data Flow Target Formula vs. Procedure Debugger Layout
Hello, Thank you for taking the time to review this query! I am trying to understand why the algorithm in our target cube does not calculate properly when running the procedure. However, if we insert the same formula in an algorithm block in a Procedure Debugger Layout the algorithm block calculates accurately. Any help is…
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Tips & Tricks Tuesday are BACK!
Hello Community! We are thrilled to bring Board Tips & Tricks Tuesdays series back to you in a new and exciting format. Our theme for 2021 is ‘ Build-A-Board’ and we will be leveraging all the knowledge from the previous TTTs webinars to provide you with the best practice around setting up and developing a planning…
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Why can't we prevent a datareader to either saturate an entity or load into a saturated entity ?
Hello Community, What a good surprise this morning when i saw that an entity in my application was saturated ! Even better surprise, when no alert was displayed in the web client !!! Even better surprise, when i saw that a datareader that was running at 3:45 AM and has saturated the entity ! Even better surprise, when no…
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10.7 - Procedures just 'stop' populating cube without any change in cubes/entities/procedure... he
Has anyone else out there had issues in 10.7 with Procedures that were working just suddenly stopping working and populating cubes with 0's......AND known how to get around it? It can be thins as simple as standard/straight dataflow that 2 minutes ago populated the target cube, add a new action to the end of the procedure…
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There are cases where the calculation cost item is not calculated in real time
Issue:When there are many columns, there are cases where the calculation cost item is not calculated in real time. Request:Please improve so that the algorithm calculation works correctly regardless of the number of columns.
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Comment input column
Issue:The comment input column is not displayed correctly after the 51st column of the table. Request:Please improve so that the comment input column works correctly regardless of the number of columns.