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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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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 set up SAP Connector Architecture
1. Abstract This article recaps all the options available when we set up the architecture for Board cloud - SAP integrations that require the Board Connector for SAP by Theobald. In the early implementation stage of projects where Board needs to import SAP data, Board architects – or the implementation partner - and the…
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How to replace REST Connector with REST API Call
1. Abstract This document illustrates how to adjust and optimize your REST API connection to leverage the more recent and advanced features and remove the technical limitations of previous solutions. Board 12 introduced new ground-breaking integration capabilities. As a Board solution is periodically upgraded to newer…
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How to set parametric WHERE clause for SAP
1. Abstract With the Theobald Board Connector, a SAP-certified middleware is available to load data from SAP systems (ERP/BW) to Board if the database of the system cannot or may not be addressed directly (e.g. HANA via ODBC). More information can be found here: In the simplest case, data is read from SAP tables, i.e. the…
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How to trigger SQL server actions
1. Abstract This article discusses the possibilities of using ROLAP cubes to write flags into an SQL server, thus triggering actions on the database side, and how to process this flag. 2. Context Usually, data pre-calculations are loaded into Board from a SQL server, but there are times when we need to initiate actions on…
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Is anyone able to direct me to the Dynamics 365 documentation?
Hi all, I anticipate that I'll need to make use of the Dynamics 365 connector and the only documentation I've been able to find in the manual relates to this 2022 release: Is anyone able to direct me to the formal documentation? Ideally, I'd like something that covers the Board app for Dynamics 365. Cheers,
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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…