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How to send notifications: Integration with MS Teams
1. Abstract A typical request during project implementations is to support the process workflow by adding notifications to users when certain actions have been executed and the next workflow steps can start. In this article, we want to show how to handle the notification to Microsoft Teams through the engagement of an…
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Board Tree Public API
In addition to the existing APIs, it would be useful to have a public schema for retrieving a specific hierarchy via API, similar to the one available for entities. Currently, if we want to extract a tree from the Board, we must create a custom API query that includes all the necessary fields from the layout section, which…
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Support x-www-form-urlencoded body type for POST API Calls
At the moment, in REST API Calls if I have to set up a POST request with a body, the body type can only be in json format, which means that the only value supported for header Content-Type is "application/json". In some cases, especially API endpoints that return tokens but they are not standard OAuth2 flows (like in some…
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How to: Integration with Dynamics 365 OData APIs
1. Abstract This document illustrates two different methods of connecting Board to Dynamics 365 OData APIs and all aspects related to these configurations, such as authentication, testing and pagination. 2. Context Integrating Board with Microsoft SaaS products is becoming an increasingly frequent ask. One of the most…
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How to set up a Rest API connection
1. Abstract This article explains how external systems can retrieve data from Board using Board API queries. The article also showcases a simple case on how Board can obtain data from external systems by calling their REST APIs, thus enabling smooth integration between the two solutions. 2. Context APIs stand for…
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Max item Number and Saturation part of Public API endpoint
Hi Community, Would be a great addition if Board's public API endpoint would return Max Item Number and Saturation information, since it is currently reporting only a small subset of info: { "physicalName": "…", "itemNumber": …, "name": " …" } Would be great to extract a wider set of Entity metadata, such as Max Item…
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Rest API call manual script
With the new 'Rest API call' action, it is possible to connect and download data from a public or authorized API into a CSV/JSON file through a list of mapped parameters. Even though, you have the possibility to see how the query has been structured in the 12.6 release, you cannot edit it. It could be useful to interact…
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Connection to Google API
Hello, I wanted to get data via API from a Google form. I set everything up in Google and with postman it works. However, when I try to establish a connection in Board I always get an error. My problem is that I do not know where to place the JWT or which settings need to be taken to get the connection via service account.…
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Board Public API: Include "maxItemNumber" as well
Currently the API only returns the number of items when using "/public/{dbName}/schema/Entities". Can this please be extended to include the "maxItemNumber" as well? Then we can track when the entities are full. Unfortunately, it often happens with our customers that the entity fills up and we don't notice. The frontend…
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Temporary DataReader in Procedures
Hello together, to reduce the number of DataReaders, it would be helpful if DataReaders can be created temporarily in a procedure. This would also significantly increase flexibility in combination with temporary cubes. Best regards Christoph S.
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Write-API for Data-Models to enable Infrastructure as Code
Currently, all elements are manually updated via the UI. However, we would rather like to have a possibility to create entities, kubes, relationships etc. with an API. This would enable us also to provision our data models using infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform). As e.g. Terraform can also be used to provision…
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Pagination for API-Queries
API-Queries are a great way to expose Data to other Board-Systems or third-party-applications. Big Data-Sets could end in Time-Out. It would be helpfull to cut big datasets in smaller pieces with pagination. Please have a look on Pagination on REST API call Procedure step.
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Triggering procedures with REST API Calls from within Board
1. Abstract This article discusses the possibilities of triggering Board procedures via Rest API Calls from within Board itself and the how’s and why’s of this approach. 2. Context The Board Public APIs empower external systems to seamlessly interact with a Board application. By utilizing REST API calls, you can, for…
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Sending data between data models.
Hi Board, We have two different data models and we need to sedn data from the one data model to the other and vice versa. Currently what we have tried is the following: Extract the data from data model A, call a procedure in data model B that would import the extract through Azure using a data reader and paste the data…
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Rest API Integration into a cube in Board directly.
Hi, We have set up a Rest API call that bypasses the pipeline and pulls data from a different model in our Board instance. Is it possible to take the payload(source data) that we get from the Rest API and push it directly to a cube in our datamodel? We do not want the payload to be exported into an output file that is…
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Overview ApiQuery calls (# of requests) in Cloud Administration Portal
Hi all, it would be wonderful to have an overview in the cloud admin portal how many API requests you actually use per day. Since there is a limit of 500 requests per day, this would help the customer understand if they need to think about increasing the limit soon. Thanks a lot!