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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.
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Pre-aggregated value (version)
Issue:The pre-aggregated value (version) cannot be created for the cube for data entry, and the screen response cannot be improved. Request:Please improve so that pre-aggregated values (versions) can be created for cubes that input data.
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Drag and Drop an existing objekt of a screen in the container tab object in Board 11.3
Hallo everybody! I would like to drag and drop an existing object of a screen in the container tab object. This existing object should be a new tab of the container object. The existing object has an individual format. I only find the possibility to drag and drop objects from the the left object list. After using this way…
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Delete saved Nexel Procedure actions which are not shown in the list after change layout
1. What is your idea? Add function to delete saved Nexel Procedure actions which are not shown in the list after change layout 2. What specific problem are you trying to find a solution to, or what new scenario would this idea respond to? Currently, if you change layout in a data view, saved Nexel Procedure actions…
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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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16:9 in mask settings not actually 16:9
Has anyone else had issues trying to create a mask/screen using the 16:9 settings where it doesn't actually 'fill' a 16:9 screen? I can set the mask to 16:9 and put a label taking up the full width/height on the screen available (in edit mode).. yet when you go to 'view' you end up with a big pile of white area on the…
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Export Selections in Flattened Export mode
Hi all, In the current Excel export option, there's a very practical option to "export selections" along with the file. This is very useful for people using this data afterwards to keep track of the perimeter. However, it's not available when using the "flat" export. Idea : add this option for flat export (if necessary,…
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email report
ciao, I'm using board 11.2, I want to send in pdf format a dataview by email, all works but if there are more rows than the space available I receive the pdf with only part of the rows (I see the scrollbar in the right). It is possible to send a report done by "create report" (option in the menu of the screen) where the…
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Putting week data into a chart by where one year has 53 weeks and another has 52 weeks
Hello, We have a capsule which shows a chart with data by week. Because 2020 had 53 weeks and 2019 had 52 the chart shows zero for the corresponding week in 2019. Our user in her previous Excel report would go back 52 weeks for the comparison to avoid this problem. Is there a way to do this in Board. Currently we are using…