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Database, Backend Setup with multiple Entity Relationships
Hi Board Community, I need help on a specific backend, datawarehouse setup topic. I have to create a report which shows the cost per publisher and its respective country. My idea was to create an entity for publishers and one for country and map them via relationships, the cost would be added via a cube. In the end I want…
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How do you get the column sum of a formula into a label?
Hello everyone, I want to see the sum of a column in a label, like in the screenshots below. The problem with this: The column contains a formula. Does anyone have an idea? The blocks are exactly the same in both layouts. If you need a cube-structure feel free to let me know. Thank you in advance Julien…
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Pie Chart Prior Month Results
Hello On a screen I have two pie charts. One displays values for current month and the other I want display the totals for the prior month as a comparative to see how things are doing. I want this to be dynamic, but I am having trouble with this. Cheers ------------------------------ Jason Ferguson Management Accountant…
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Menu object - improved colour/font options
When using a Menu object it always highlights the 'parent' level in white when 'expanding'. This causes issues when your font colour is white....and sometimes you want your font colour to be white. The object doesn't offer enough control over the colour or the font to be able to get around this issue. You only get to…
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Adjust Relationships
Hi all, looking for a best practice to adjust the relationships of specific entities. I have the following use case: Publishers are linked via relationship to a respective Sales Office. Now the Sales Office of a specific publisher needs to be changed from AMERICAS to EMEA. I was about to do that manually by going to…
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Option to open screen without layout refresh in development
Our partners are currently developing customer's screens with the combination of a screen to filter data and a screen to show the result (dataview). In designing/checking the result in a dataview, Board automatically tries querying ALL the data since the filtering condition is not applied in the case when we develop a…
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Participate in a video case study (500 points)
Participate in a recorded interview about your company's Board use case, ideally at your office. In advance of the interview, the Board team will coordinate with you on the details of the interview, including questions to be asked, expectations for the video recording, and the anticipated time requirement. After the…
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Collaborate on a press release (250 points)
Collaborate with Board staff on the release of news about your company. We share different types of news on our site featuring customers, including new customer announcements, project go-live stories, or achievements that our customers have made using Board. The Board team will reach out to you to learn more about the…
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Be a sales reference (200 points)
Speak with a Board prospect over the phone and share details about your journey in selecting and implementing Board. The Board team will work behind the scenes to match your company and use case to that of a prospective customer in the deep stages of evaluation. Your interest in participation will be confirmed before the…
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Share a quote about Board (50 points)
Provide a quote about your Board experience that can be used in publicity (website, social media, blog, etc.). The quote can capture any moment during your Board journey, from the selection process to benefits realized. The Board team will inform you when and where the quote will be used. You will receive 50 points for…
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Looping a procedure through non-time entity without Nexel
Just wondering if anyone in the community has found a way to loop a procedure through a non-time entity WITHOUT using Nexel writeback or extract/reload? At the moment we have to use Nexel Writeback to populate a cube with RANK-Count to get something like the below. Entity Cube Val Mbr1 1 Mbr2 2 Mbr3 3 Mbr4 4 Clearing and…
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Option to disable 'auto updating' when developing in web
Currently whenever you do anything in the web it starts to auto update the screen. It would be good if there was an option to STOP this from happening (if desired) and only update manually (much like you have the option in Excel for calculation). It slows development down a lot in a few ways.* There are many times when I…
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Gauge Chart Alerts
Hi All, I can't seem to get alerts to work on a gauge object in the same way that I am used to with the old cockpit object. I am able to set the alert one of the display blocks but it doesn't have any effect. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ryan ------------------------------ Ryan Hinch Consultant Simpson…
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Custom selection script
Hello, we'd like to set up a security concept where different users can see same projects. It depends on which user group the relevant users belong to. Everything should be dynamic. The model shows my entities (blue) and the content of them. In my example I have three users which belong to two different user groups and two…
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Problem with Diagram Titles
Hi all, I have a massive problem with editing and deleting of diagram titles. For me it is not possible to edit the text of already existing diagram titles (see first screenshot) and if I try to insert a new text in the correct field in the diagram layout field, I can't delete or edit it anymore (see screenshot 2), because…
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Board Mailer Service doesn't start
Hello everybody, When we try to start Board Mailer Services, we get the following even in our event log, and the service crashes. All the other board services start without any problems. We're using windows server 2012 R2 std 64x. Any help is appreciated. Application: Board.Mailer.Service.exe Framework Version: v4.0.30319…
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UX Improvement: Search function in layout editor
Hello, I would like to share this very simple idea that - I think - could improve a lot the UX, in particular for the developer. In the layout editor, there is the possibility to search among cubes, entities and more. This is extremely useful. But it would be even more useful if it wouldn't refresh everytime one drag&drop…
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Colouring in Data Views
Here is a question from @Alicia Meredith-Smith: Hi team, I am using a data view to display WTD, MTD and YTD information. I have 2 entities on Rows, a Group and a child. I need the Group row to be a different colour to that of the child below. Is that possible? Thank you so much! ------------------------------ Sandra Bartl…
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Repeat Parent of Nested Items - Like Pivot Table
Hi, I'm a new Board user. I have the following Layout that I'm doing in Excel-Board add-in. Under the By Row, I have our company's categories and each customer under that category (i.e. Toys -> CustomerABC). I'll be linking this table to another tab in this workbook where I need to pick up this combination via a sumifs. Is…
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End of life support
I have inherited support of our Board BI implementation, version 10.3.0.50803. Can anyone tell me when this version runs out of support. Thanks. ------------------------------ Gary Juleff Data Warehouse Reporting Analyst IMERYS MINERALS LIMITED United Kingdom ------------------------------
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CLOUD - Restore Backup - All you need to know
FUNCTIONALITY The Cloud Administration Portal, among other activities, allows you to make backups of current databases as well as restore previous databases backups. PREREQUISITES In order to do both these operations, you should have access to the Cloud Administration Portal as well as to an Administrator user in the…
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Automated Filter (Board v10.1.2)
Hi Board Community, I have a screen which shows weekly results in a graph. The graph is always showing the past 6 weeks. This timeframe is updated manually by using a Filter Cube on the Week in the layout selection: I am wondering if it is possible to automate this step in anyway so that the manual process can be ignored.…
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Label Object : Add padding options
In order to get a cleaner result and respect graphic charter easily, it would be nice to have the options to add padding in labels. Padding defintion in CSS : Workaround : use 2 Labels, one for the content, one for the border. This solution is hard to work with. For exemple when you need to move it as there is no grouping…
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Pie Chart without Axis Configuration
Hi together, just a simple question this morning: Ist there any way to configure a pie chart comparing two measures (blocks) without having a dimension set into the axis tab? I just want to compare measure a with measure b: Thank you and best regards!
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Link hide column option to other dataview in screen
The request is to allow the option to link the "hide column option" (new functionality available since BOARD 10.6) in one dataview with another dataview (which could be the same datablock letter in the dataview), similar to how we can link dataviews for the scrollbars. So when hiding a column in one dataview, the other…
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Opening Multiple Instances of Board
Hi all, How do I open a second instance of the Board client (ver.10.3)? Should be easy, but it's just not happening - I'm almost embarrassed to ask :) Thanks ------------------------------ Andrew ------------------------------
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Clean old databases
Hi, I have a couple of databases in Board, which I don't need any longer. Is there a way to delete this database so that it does not appear in the list of databases in Board? Thanks Mathias ------------------------------ Mathias Flintrop Senior Financial Controller Smaato Inc Germany ------------------------------
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transform seconds into hh: mm: ss format
Hi all! I' d like to have some advice... I have a layout with a column where I dynamically calculate the number of seconds and where I drill this information from month to day, I'd like to show this information in the hh:mm:ss format, any advice? Thanks! Massimo ------------------------------ Massimo Palmi Consulente RETEX…
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Horizontal/Vertical Style not working In Menu setup for folders on 10.6
Hello, I am using Board 10.6 Web Designer, I created a folder with some screens, and I would like to use Horizontal/Vertical Style for the folder I created In a screen or mask, but it shows nothing, it is just blank, all the other styles, such as Standard or Accordion are working well. Please see the attached screenshot.…
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Selector on "Pop-up window" type does not display entity member on Board 10.6 Web
Hello, I tried to use selector on Board 10.6 Web, but it does not work on "Pop-up Window" type, it just does not show the member you selected on the selector. I know it is the same in Board Client, but is there any way to let it show the member if the single member selected? Please see the attached screenshot. Thanks.…