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Recordings & Replays at Your Fingertips
We're always looking for ways to make finding content easier, especially highly-requested recorded demonstrations, event replays, and product release information. Now you can find a consolidated view in Resources > Recordings & Replays. https://player.vimeo.com/1177438766 ❓️Are we missing anything? Let us know, and we'll…
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Board 15: Where Continuous Planning Becomes Agentic
Planning has entered a new era, and it’s not only because of AI. Volatility is no longer episodic. It’s constant. Forecast credibility has become a career risk. Boards and investors do not want more data; they want more confident answers. And yet, despite decades of enterprise planning innovation, 90% of organizations…
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3 Q's with Amy Holmes, Board Academy Director
Featuring: Amy Holmes, Community Captain and Board Academy Director In this installment of Community 3 Questions, we sat down with Amy Holmes, Board Academy Director, to get her thoughts on the new Academy vision, what's resonating with learners, and looking ahead to 2026. Be sure to give your feedback in the comments…
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128-Bit Sparsity in Board: When it Matters
Featuring: Community Captain Leone Scaburri, Solution Architect—internal Center of Excellence for Professional Services, Board If you have ever reviewed a Board cube and felt uneasy after seeing 128-bit sparsity, you are not alone. For many architects and modelers, 64-bit sparsity is perceived as the “safe zone,” while…
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US Economic Outlook: March 2026
This month’s Board Economic Outlook examines the rapidly shifting dynamics in global oil markets and how a supply shock is already translating into higher costs for consumers and businesses. As tanker activity through the Strait of Hormuz drops to near zero amid elevated risk and volatility. Nick Brown explores how higher…
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🎓Board Academy Instructor-Led Trainings (ILTs) – Helping you upskill
Hi everyone, If you're looking to build stronger skills with Board, the Board Academy Instructor-Led Trainings (ILTs) are a great place to start. These live sessions are delivered by experienced instructors and are available across multiple regions and languages, making it easier for people around the world to learn, ask…
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Agentic AI in Enterprise Planning: Beyond the Copilot Era
Agentic AI in enterprise planning is moving organizations beyond today’s reactive copilots and toward goal-driven AI agents that can sense, decide, and act—within enterprise guardrails—to drive business outcomes across finance, supply chain, and operations. TL;DR Copilots respond to prompts; agentic AI agents can initiate…
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March CommunityCast and Monthly Mission
🍀Welcome back to March's Monthly Mission. Community packed a number of user experience updates, blog content, and knowledge in our How-To Guides and Best Practices in a shortened February and we're excited to share those with you. Here are your one-minute, Community updates this month: https://player.vimeo.com/1170343878 A…
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How to overcome the challenges of a Weekly Fiscal Calendar
1. Abstract Managing a Weekly Fiscal Calendar presents a recurring challenge for organizations operating with 52- and 53-week Fiscal Years. The presence of an additional week disrupts like-for-like (LFL) comparisons, distorts year-over-year variance analysis, and complicates budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes.…
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Foresight Best Practices – Wave 2 Now Live!
We’re excited to share the next wave of Foresight Best Practices in the Community, featuring 10 new best practices. ➡️This second set of articles continues to expand on practical guidance for working effectively in Board Foresight. While the first wave focused on core modeling and data fundamentals, this new group rounds…
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Build Along with Board: Turning Guides Into Guided Walkthroughs
If you’re looking for reliable, actionable guidance in the Board Community, Best Practices and How-to Guides are the place to start. Whether a guide is created or curated, it’s always reviewed and validated by Board’s internal Center of Excellence—so you can trust what you’re applying in your own work.…
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🎓Academy Reimagination is NOW!!
Board Academy 2025: A Year of Transformation — And What’s Next for 2026! In 2025, Board Academy embarked on an exciting journey to reimagine the learner experience - guided by one bold vision: Delivering the Right Education, in the Right Way, at the Right Time. . .Every Time! This transformation is shaped by you, and this…
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Integrating Board with Google BigQuery
1. Abstract This document describes the recommended approach for integrating Google BigQuery with Board using the Progress DataDirect JDBC connector within the Data Pipeline. It outlines the integration architecture, configuration steps, and data import methods, positioning BigQuery as the source of truth and Board as the…
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How to display images stored in the Google Cloud Storage
1. Abstract Displaying images stored in Google Cloud Storage (GCS) inside Board is straightforward - as long as the URL is constructed dynamically through Board algorithms and secured with a valid signed URL. As Solution Architects, our objective is to provide a clean, modern pattern where Board remains lightweight while…
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2026 Community Captains
📢 We'd like to extend a warm welcome to our new 2026 Community Captains! Your contributions to the Board Community strengthen learning, model excellence, and reinforce our shared commitment to accelerating growth. ➡️ Follow along to watch this list grow throughout the year! 🙌 Welcome back to our returning Community…
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How to ensure correct rule behavior when using entity sorting
*NEW—includes video demonstration. Build Along with Board Follow along as we provide a demonstration to further illustrate the basic principles shared here. https://player.vimeo.com/1163691677 1. Abstract Rules applied to an Entity are widely used in Board to support aggregation logic within reporting structures. A common…
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Analyst Review: Gartner Peer Insights (multiple opportunities) (150/50 points)
Board is working with Gartner Peer Insights to publish independent ratings and reviews of Board and would like you to participate, starting with a quick click below. Your review is anonymous (only information about your company industry, company size, job title, and geography are displayed). Leaving a review should take…
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How to use Nexel to select custom time periods
*NEW - includes video demonstration. Build Along with Board Follow along as we bring this step-by-step guide to life. https://player.vimeo.com/1105912052 Quick reference: 4:32 - Custom time period selector 7:23 - Create members 8:38 - Create the cube 10:09 - Create Nexel layout > complete Nexel process begins here 1.…
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The new Board knowledge base is here!
Following the Board 14 release, consisting of a brand-new user interface and improved user experience, we are proud to announce the new Board knowledge base! The new Board knowledge base replaces the Board Manual from version 14 and newer as a support center for helpful resources that reach beyond only documentation.…
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Groups FAQ
Welcome to Board Groups! We’re glad you’re here. What is a Board Group? Board Groups provide dynamic opportunities for members with similar interests, shared challenges, and business goals to solve problems, share key learnings, and foster meaningful connections. Created as an opportunity for valued customers to take the…
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How to Edit the Max Item Number
*NEW - includes video demonstration. 1. Abstract The Entity ‘Max Item Number’ is used to reference data stored in a Cube version. It determines how the data pages are physically stored and influences performance as much as dataflow execution. 2. Context The amount of master data will increase during an application…
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Selection automatically resets to another value in Layout despite removal of all selection
Hello, I am experiencing an issue with the selection of the entity “SOCIETE” in a BOARD screen (KPI capsule).When I select a company in the screen (e.g., Dell) and then switch to Design Mode → Layout, the selection is immediately replaced by another company (Lux). This happens consistently whenever: I open the screen, I…
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How can I download multiple zip files in one go?
We have a screen where the user can upload many zip files. They are stored in Board. We want to build a report where all or a selection of zip files can be easily downloaded in one go. Any ideas on how to do this? Is it possible to use FlexGrid to provide access to these uploaded zip files? Is there any way to provide the…
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Feed Feature
We are trying to configure and implement the 'Feed' feature in Board 14. Is there a way that more than 1 person can amend the same piece of 'feed' content? So far separate people have been able to create content, but we cant work out how to amend the content of other admin users e.g. if they were on annual leave for a week
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UserCreated.log file got replaced with and error file in on-prem version
Hi All, we are working on a requirement where we need UserCreated.log and UserRemoved.log files while loading these two files into two different cubes via two different data readers. we found an error [new item found] error by the data reader which is using for UserCreated.log files Due to this error, now our previous…
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🚀 Upcoming Solutions Enablement Courses in Board Academy!
Following our recent announcement, we’re excited to share an update on three new courses currently in UAT and set to go live in early April: 🔹 Solution Process Overview and Engagement Approach Gain a clear understanding of Board’s standardized delivery methodology across the full engagement lifecycle—from early positioning…
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level 300; Module 309: Not able to submit the functional test answer
If I try choosing these two options and submit ,it is not yet all responding but if i choose other options it is responding with incorrect, Please help me with this issue
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Level 300, Module 309: The Approve button doesn't trigger anything #Level309: Workflow
Hello, I try to Approve during the QA of Workflow. When I double click, nothing appears, no trigger. But when I refreh the page, I see that it worked. I am supposed to see a message and confirm or not the approval. i checked my procedures and don't know what is wrong. Anyone encounters this issue during developing ? Thank…
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🎓Introduction to Board: Analysis and Reporting onDemand course now LIVE!
🚀 New Academy Course Now Available: Introduction to Board: Analysis and Reporting We’re excited to announce the launch of our new video-based course, Introduction to Board: Analysis and Reporting! This course covers the same core material as Level 100: Foundations of Building in Board, and is perfect for new Board…
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Training Environment Instance Help
Hello! My training environment instance has expired. I need a new one to take the new Introduction to A&R OnDemand learning. Thanks for your help!
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Board Developer Certification Exam(Dev-Academy-Fianal)
Hello, I'm a beginner on Board and I followed this training path: I then took the certification exam, but unfortunately, it wasn't enough because I needed 80% correct answers and only got 60%. I need your help and advice. For those who have passed, do you have any multiple-choice questions or a practice website to help me…
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Bulk Insert Error
Hi Community, Does anyone have any clue about this error message which pops up when I'm running a Bulk Insert step on a procedure? Bulk insert to SQL Table Comments: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. [CorrelationID: 5623b57f-c8f8-44a1-a6c2-bbaeb0bc0899] Does it depend on some functional feature of…
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Sorting by a text column - what is the sorting logic for that date?
Hi, i sort a text block and i thought it would sort the day which is in the axes chronological order. However it is very random. Any idea how chronological can be kept? Thanks, Maik
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P&L - Hierarchy of P&L Group, P&L Position and Account
Hello,m I’m working with a rule on the “P&L Group” entity and want to show the full account hierarchy in a Data View. Setup / requirement Entities / hierarchy for account: Account → P&L Position → P&L Group In the Data View I can pull in the cube and activate the rule on P&L Group. With only the P&L Group level in the…
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Flexgrid - Formula working when unhidden blocks
Hi, anybody aware or have a solution for Flexgrid. When i have blocks unhidden calculation for color alert works if they blocks are hidden the color alert calculation doesnt work anymore. any ideas? br, Maik
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re-enable https://academy-playground.board.com/ after courses expired
Dear Board Users, Any kind of suggestion or experiece to to re-enable "https://academy-playground.board.com/" after 30 days courses expired? Thank You
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I am not able to see this black Down arrow in my training instance. What could be the issue?
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Support for SWITCH formula in algorithms
Hi! I have a use case where I want my algorithm have a different formula based on what row it is in the row axis. I believe I can accomplish this with nested IFs. In excel, the switch formula is a much cleaner version of several nested IFs. Do you think Board would consider adding this to its formula library?
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API Queries Limitation
What is the rule regarding the data limitations of calling a BOARD API to retrieve data, e.g, what is the best approach to handle big datasets without missing out on any data or that the call fails? Is it possible to use paging? I've created some endpoints fail after adding a block q in the layout for no particular reason…
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Drill Through popup : How many rows it can safely handle ?
Hello, Is-there any BOARD tech lead here ? Our users are using the drill through feature towards an SQL server database to see invoice accounting lines on SQL DB. However on some accounts, we have approx. 100 000 lines of invoices to display on the BOARD drill thorugh popup Question : Is the drill-through feature natively…
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How to automate time selection for previous year December in a data view ?
Hi everyone, I’m trying to automate time selection in a report. I currently have a report where the first column shows data for the selected month. For example, if the selected month is 202602 (February 2026), I want to add a second block/column that automatically filters to December of the previous year, so in this…
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Show the Last Month's value even when there's a 12-month screen selection
Hello, Is there any way other than Refer to to get the last month's value when there's a 12-month screen selection active? Example: Jan 2026 to Dec 2026 is active on the screen selection and we want the value for Dec 2026 only for some visuals. We need the 12-month selection for the trend line graphs but we also need the…
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What happens when I don’t have access to a specific cube, but I launch a procedure that uses that cu
Hi, I was reading about cube visibility in the manual, and I want to understand what happens if I run a procedure that uses a cube I don’t have access to. Will the procedure stop at that step? or jump to the next step? How i can notice this?
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How to increase the height of the data view table
I need to increase the height of the table, but i am not able to do it , i am just able to increase the column width. Is there any method. Please give me the solution for this.
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Entity Order change
Hi Team, I am have a entity Eg: Code: 1 2 3 4 Final Now I have to add new members after 4th members 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Final i added the new members and used custom sort by option and moved the final member to bottom. Is this process cause any issue?
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Feature request - 1st Half and 2nd Half as options in Time Functions
I imagine it's not just me that would find this extremely helpful, but if the Time functions had the option of 1st half and 2nd half, and the ability to choose that for fiscal year, that would be amazing. Is there a more formal way of requesting for features for Board?
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Difficulties with using Flex Grid to compare data on different entities
Good day, I would like to ask for some help regarding how to compare cubes with different dimensionalities in Flex Grid. Use case: we have a system running salary calculations. We have FTEs in one cube, dimensioned by Month, Cost center, Employee. We have actual Salaries in another cube dimensioned by Month, Cost center,…
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loading problem occurring after screen creation
Hello, I'm currently training on module B14 Level 200 Part 2 - Building a planning solution in Board. I'm asked to build this screen I followed the procedure, but I'm not getting any data. I have checks: But I can't figure out where the problem is coming from. Do you have any suggestions, please? Thank you in advance.
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Difference between numbers
Hi how can i calculate the difference between the values highlighted same color? in the end it should a week over week difference. I tried with nexel but the result doesn't make sense. The date in columns is changing everyday fyi. thanks maik
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Validation Rule on Detailed-By Data Entry Not Matching Total from Another Cube
Hi everyone, I’m facing an issue with a validation rule on a data entry that uses a detailed by dimension. I would like to create a validation rule that checks whether the total of this detailed-by data entry is equal to a value coming from another cube within the same layout. I tried adding the cube directly in the form…
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Can not Access Data model Security Of Data Model
to be honest, I got a pop-up message error when i access Data model Security function of Data Model. if this case happened somewhere , please help me to identify root cause and solution to fix