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"Sorting on two or more entities with cube"
The manual says “If the Layout has two Entities set by row or by column, the sorting condition will consider only the most nested Entity.” It does not solve most of the problems because the client requirement specifically asks - the sorting on more than one entity combination. Presently it affects more than 150 reports I…
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A New Course: Subscription Hub Available from the Board Academy
Board Academy has launched a new eLearning module, “Subscription Hub,” to help everyone understand the feature of a unified, or centralized, portal where subscription management can be accessed. With Subscription Hub, it’s simple to administer all user maintenance in one place, including assigning user rights to specified…
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Power BI Connector for Board | Login issue
Hi All, I want to ask if has anyone been successful to set up connectivity between Power BI and Board? I followed the steps as per the documentation. It states that we do not need any redirect URL when working with Power BI, but it doesn't show any login screen. It prompts me with the below error. I have tried clearing out…
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3 Things to Know about the End of Support for Board 10 on December 31, 2022
We are approaching the end of support milestone in the Board 10 sunset plan. If you are still using version B10.x, here are the three things you need to know and plan: 1. What does End of Support mean? After December 31, 2022, applications using the B10 version will no longer be supported by Board. Practically, this means…
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Trend line in a chart
Hello, I want to make a trend line in a chart like de red line. I tried with the time functions Trend but that does not work. Someone a solution ? Kind regards ------------------------------ carla Janssen Business intelligence specialist Attero Netherlands ------------------------------
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How to use the pause function with Pagers/Selectors
We have a screen that contains 4 pagers, the setup now you have to select each page and wait for it to display before you move to the next selections, Is there a way you can pause all selectors/pagers so the output is only displayed after all selections are made. Thanks ------------------------------ Olu Shonowo Financial…
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B11 vs StandAlone partner licenses
Hello With the full web approach it seems stand alone licenses, commonly used by partners, are no more working. How they can connect ?
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Tech Friday
Can someone tell me please where I can found the records of tech Friday sessions ?
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Board Engine will not restart after server was unresponsive
We came into a server this morning that was unresponsive after a reboot the Board Engine will not restart we get the following error in the event log.Board 10 Server is starting. Configuration: C:\Program Files\Board\Board Server\server_config_v2.xml License: C:\Program Files\Board\Board Server\Nampak Production 19-20.Key…
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Just Announced: The Introduction to the Board 2022 Summer Release Webinar for Customers
We've just announced our customer-focused webinar for the Summer 2022 release and we can't wait for you to join us. If you haven't heard already, the Board 2022 Summer release is scheduled to arrive on August 18, 2022. Shortly after the release you can join us for this insightful webinar to learn more about the latest…
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Colours for Risks & Opportunities chart
Hi, I would like to use the red and green alert for my risks and opportunities chart. It is a very simple bar chart with one data view. I turned on the data alert on the cube but it doesn't come through in the chart. I looked at every option in the chart but I can't see anything in the settings. I can't use waterfall for…
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How to add alerters to a chart
I need to add an alerter to a chart to highlight the week a product is on promotion. The chart is by week. I have a layout above that shows the data for the product by week and the weeks the product is on promotion are highlighted. The layout is a master layout that drives the chart below. When the user selects a product…
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A new course to learn how using APIs in Board has been made easy
Customers and partners, Board has launched a new course to demonstrate how we've engineered the API process to be effortless, requiring just a few simple clicks. This course, "APIs and Board," gives all the information that's needed to understand the concepts and to begin working effectively. At the end of this course,…
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Timebar/Selection to current month
Hello again! On my Screen im using a timebar for the selection. If someone enters the screen, it jumps to the actual year 2018. The problem now is, that it shows me all the months in 2018. What I need is, if someone enters the screen, the timebar and all the charts should only show values from january until the current…
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Coming Soon: Board 2022 Summer Release
We are excited to announce that we will release the Board 2022 Summer Release on August 18, 2022. This update introduces various significant enhancements and new features for every type of Board user, from Developers to End Users. New features available in this upcoming release include: Smart Import Object Power BI add-in…
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Drill through more than 7500 rows.
Hi, I have a trouble with drill through. When the user make a big selection, specially under "Total", I received an error message like "The query returned too many rows." this happened when the query result is more than 7500 rows. In this case the most value is 27000 rows for one month. I use this kind of query to run a…
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Procedures log
Hi all, Nowadays the database log has all the steps done in a procedure, but there is no information about the procedure that is running. It would be very interesting to have a new column with the procedure information about every step. With this we could: 1- Filter the "database log" by procedure 2- Win time searching in…
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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…