Screen Design

Improve drop down list.
Context: Currently is it difficult to do a drop down list properly in Board if you intent to work with the stored values. In Layout designer and Data Entry section, you generally use "suggested values from Entity". However, it doesn't work properly if : You have localized the entity but multiple user on the same data…
Master Layout : Add option to ignore a master layout
My Idea : Add the feature to "Ignore master object" for object like dataview / graph etc… My Context : Currently when designing a screen for an object to ignore a master layout you have to set a selection directly into the layout of the screen. However that doesn't allow users to view data matching their screen selection…
📅 Add an culture insensitive variable : @datetimeISO
Currently @datetime is culture sensitive which make it very inconvenient to use in most case like with APIs. I know the following idea has been accepted but still, it would be a great addition to have @datetimeISO with ISO formats. Source :
Home Screen by User
I think it would help a lot with solution design if we could set a home screen against the user profile, so that we can design different home screens for different people within an organization and have them taken directly there upon entering a capsule.
Reporting Layer: Optimize a report
1. Abstract Users are more and more demanding and are looking for the right balance between the correctness of the result and the scalability of the solution at the same time. Improving response time has always been a top priority, therefore the purpose of this document would be to explain the main best practices to apply…
Drill Anywhere Options: "Drill To" vs "Go To"
1 . Abstract The Drill Functions provide several interactive options, which are: Drill anywhere, Drill-down, Drill-to screen, Drill-procedure. In design mode, interacting with the ‘Drill-to screen’ feature, either in a Data View or in a Chart, there are some notable differences regarding ‘Drill-to screen’ and ‘Go-to…
Add ability to multi-select columns in Block Format
Block formatting individual columns is a very time consuming job, and this would allow you to speed up the process a lot faster. You can currently multi select on the different rows, but it'd be very beneficial to CTRL+Left Click on the columns to format them together too. There are data views with over 100+ columns here…
Object names for Panel & Tab
In the Screens Object list, it would be helpful if you could see the name of the Panel & Tab. In this case, to figure out which Panel you want to work with, you would need to count the panels to figure out its position. Linking the Panel/Tab name would be helpful.
Add setting to allow horizontal display of "@Selection" substitution formula
In the image below, I'd like to display all of the selections horizontally on the grey banner, which is not possible using the substitution formula "@selection". Current workaround is to create multiple labels for each entity selected (8 in this example) and individually place them side by side on the banner which can be…
Number Scaling - formatting options
The new function is pretty good - but it would be really good, if there would be some formatting options for the number scaling —> e.g. k instead of K or T instead of K etc. Also deactivating the suffix would be great - so just having the value without K/M/B
Enable capsule security the same way we now have Folder security
Problem When users enter the Board main page, they would like to see all the capsules that they have access to in one place. These capsule cards can be customized nicely to show some preliminary information using sparkline/footer, they can be color coded, have backgrounds and icons. However, now, if we want to make sure…
Google Maps Object Update: Action Needed
A Google Maps security content update is causing all the Google Maps Objects configured in a Board environment to fail execution. Further details on the Google Maps update can be found here. This issue is affecting all Board versions. The issue will be fixed in the upcoming 12.6 Patch release version and will be available…
Drill Actions
1. Abstract Board offers multiple drill options, it’s important to consider the requirements when planning or setting up drill options and to design the solution accordingly. 2. Context Board offers multiple options when drilling into data, which is the right one to use depends on the specific requirements – whether the…
How to design screens & dashboarding
1. Abstract Screen and dashboard design can at times make or break an application – if screens are poorly designed or unintuitive user engagement can be compromised from the off. There are many factors to consider when determining what constitutes a good design - from layout and ease of navigation to the amount of content…
IBCS Standards
I would like to suggest to enrich the dataview and graph settings to help building a BOARD application using reporting standards as suggested by the IBCS® standards (International Business Communication Standards). These standards aim at providing a consistent reporting set for the user, so that he can very quickly know…
Broadcasting - Formating Orientation
it would be great if there are more formatting options when presentations are getting sent out via broadcasting —> similiar to the options when exporting a screen to PDF (Header and Footer, Orientation (landscape or portrait) etc.
Add a way to maintain Master Layout selection after procedure ran and refreshed data in the screen
Currently, when you have a Master Layout in your screen and the have data entry enable in either the master dataview or a slave dataview, you will only keep the Master Layout selection if you use a default "Save data entry". If any procedure is required to do some calculation and therefor you need to refresh some…
Snap to grid option for screen design
I'm sure this has been suggested before but I haven't been able to find anything on the exchange. Myself and many of my colleagues have expressed frustration in getting objects correctly aligned. Is there a chance that a 'Snap to grid' feature could be added in future builds? Similar to how a tool like Figma (or other EPM…
Matrix object - config nr of rows and columns
matrix can be only square (2x2, 3x3) or horzontal or vertical (1xn, nx1) It would be great have the capability to set any rectangual matrix we want (e.g. 3x2), simply replacing the option alimnebt with rows and columns settings
Horizontal selector should not waste space
Horizontal selectors should not waste space by adding so much free space left and right to the element name. Brings up scroll bars where none is needed.

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