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October CommunityCast and Badge Opportunity
🎃 Spooky season is upon us, what are your Halloween plans this year? Are you (or the kids in your life) wearing any fun costumes? Feel free to share below and be sure to check out our monthly updates to learn about what was new in Community in September. Here are your one-minute, Community updates this month: Thanks to…
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Optimize Your Community Experience
Getting the most out of your Board Community experience means knowing when new discussions are posted, new questions are answered, and added information is ready for viewing. Category Following and Custom Notification Preferences will help you get started! Stay Informed, Effortlessly When you follow categories, you choose…
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Introducing Scout: A Helpful Guide to Fast Answers
We’re excited to welcome Scout to the Board Community! Think of Scout as your helpful guide, always on the lookout to fetch the best answers to your questions. Powered by our Community AI assistant, Scout delivers suggested answers to forum posts within minutes, helping you find solutions faster and keeping the…
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The Board Community Experience Survey 3.0 is live!
The Board Community wants to hear from you! Our Community Experience Survey version 3.0 is live and we need your thoughts and feedback to keep our Community evolving. We've had a busy year since the release of the last survey and your feedback played a big part in the growth of the Community. Take the survey below to let…
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Board 14.4 is here!
We are pleased to announce that the Board 14.4 release is here! 🚀 The new Board 14.4 release includes significant improvements for Developers, Administrators, and Planners (End Users). Board 14.4 proudly introduces the new Board Foresight Add-On allowing users to integrate both internal and external data for forecasting…
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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. 1. Abstract While conducting reporting, the essential requirement often arises to compare data across various time periods. This article introduces a method that enables users to choose a specific custom timeframe directly on the screen. Using a designated cube, users can dynamically…
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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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Algorithm - limit for length ?
Hello colleagues, are you aware of any limitation for algorithm in data view ? How long could it be ? thanks, Peter
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B14 204: Section 3
Per the training screenshot the total count for Salesperson should be 122, but mine shows 128. I am not sure how to fix this.
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Data Block Visibility in Dataview
Is there another way of forcing a Data Block in a Dataview to be always shown even if it has no value apart from checking the "Show all" in Axes?
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Is there a one-stop shop for keyboard shortcuts?
As most FP&A folks are, Excel is my comfort zone and over the years I've grown fond of my keyboard shortcuts. I'd like to see if there is an easy way to learn keyboard shortcuts in Board to help me transition into this. I'm being assigned to be a Power User for our implementation, and want to hit the ground running, but…
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Requirement of improving Flexgrid
Hi team, Let me share the ideas what customer requesting me. Changeable width of header Currently, we can change the width of header for 3 options. However, they are too thick for the header. Could you consider more thin header like dataview. Table style setting Flexgrid has no table style like dataview. Customer would…
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B14 203: Data View not populating
The data view is not populating to match what is shown in the training. My data view: Training data view: My data readers do not have any discarded data.
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edit scrollbar for Selection pop-up window
Hi there, Where can we edit the scrollbar size and color for the Selection data pop-up window? Thanks, Feisha
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Sort Presentations into Folders
Some customers have many presentations (40 - 50) that all display on the one presentation screen. They would like to file them by department or business unit into folders for easy classification of the presentations. Currently they code the presentation for sorting.
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Level 200: Module 206 Default Entities (Select budget version)
On the "Sales Planning" screen, when I open the Toolbar menu and then the "Select" panel, I can't find the "Version" entry.
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Rename exported excel file from Dataview or Flex Grid
Hi All, I want to ask that can we rename exported excel file name from Dataview or Flex Grid? Example : Default : DataView.csv Expected : Report.csv Thanks
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Level 200: Module 206; CY Budget on Sales Planning Screen
On the "Sales Planning" screen, when I run procedure to initialize the budget, no data is populated in the "CY Budget" item. I have reviewed related inquiries, but the issue remains unresolved on my end. I would greatly appreciate any help or guidance. Data View configure layout Capsule procedure Data model procedure…
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Enable Multi-Selection Extraction for Cubes – Boost Efficiency in Data Modeling
Currently, entities can be selected and extracted in bulk, which is a great time-saver. However, this functionality is not available for Cubes. It would be extremely helpful if Cubes also supported multi-selection extraction via the top toolbar, similar to entities. Here’s the challenge: when an entity needs to be…
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Please extend the level 300 part 1 training environment.
Dear team, Thanks for you, the level 300 part 1 training environment was extend by 1st October 2025. But, I can't complete it due to the time constraints because of my job using "Board". I would like to extend the instance to complete the level 300 part 1 training. Would you extend my level 300 part 1 instance? Best regards
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September CommunityCast and Badge Opportunity
⛅️ Fall is just around the corner so make sure to enjoy those remaining sunny days! The Community team has some fun updates so check them out in the video below. Here are your one-minute, Community updates this month: Thanks to August's participants, we loved reading about your vacation destinations. @Helmut Heimann, @Nico…
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Smart import object limit
Hi, We have appreciated a reduction of the max number of rows that can be loaded using the Smart Import Object. Before we could load up to 35k rows and now it seems the maximum is 10K. Is there a way to increase this limit? 10k rows is not enough for us. BR
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Azure Storage Security
Hello everyone, I’d like to address a sensitive topic related to platform security. By default, the board servers are connected to Azure Shared Storage as part of the cloud configuration. In this setup, anyone with the SAS (Shared Access Signature) key can access the Azure Shared Storage. I'm referring specifically to the…
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Request to Extend Instance Validity Period
Hello. I'm studying Board Developer Path Lv.200 now. But, the instance used for training will expire on October 3, 2025. I would like to keep using it for studying Board. So, is it possible to extend the instance's validity period? Best regards.
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Rename Capsule or Rename Foldernames
Hi everybody, does anyone have experiences what i have to consider by changing the names of a Capsule or Foldernames? Are Presentations still workung i.e. the Broadcasting of Presentations and so on?
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Loading Speed Flex Grid
Hi, are there any plans to work on the loading speed of a flex grid? When i load the same data into a dataview it works fairly quick however when i do the same in flex grid it takes minimum 2 minutes + to load. Br, Maik
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Unable to load data in module 212 of B12 Level 200 P&L screen after clicking update P&L
Hi, I am not able to see the data coming up in module 212 of B12 level 200 om P&L screen after clicking update P&L, and the cube-UTIL - DE - Product - P&L Mapping dataflow is showing 0.
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Wrap Text in Flexgrid
We formally request the implementation of automatic text wrapping for column content in the Flexgrid object. This feature is currently supported in the Dataview control via the column property → wrap text.
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Level 200, General Issue: Data Views are empty
Hello, I am currently completing the Level 200 training course. I am currently on Module 214 (Sales Report), but I don't think that is relevant to my problem. The problem I am having is that none of my data views are displaying anything on any of the screens I have created so far. All other graphics (pie charts, Cartesian…
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Level 200 - Training environment expired
Hi, I was not able to complete level 200 training due to other commitments and different assignments from company. I really would like to restart it to complete the training however I got the message on the page that the course is expired. Is it possible to reset the training environment. Thank you.
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Level 300 Part 2 - 308 Functional Test
Hello Team, Im facing issue in completing Functional test - Ques 9, change the User to EMEA Approver role. Navigate to Sales planning adjustment screen and select the countries. After changing role it does not allow me to go to screen and gives the error message as "Access denied. you are not allowed to access this…
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216 Section 14: Build Revenue by City Pie Chart
Hi - so after creating this pie chart, it displays the split by city accordingly, but is the split based on GBP revenue? That's the logical way to show this, but how does it know to display it appropriately by using the GBP revenue (data block a) rather than LC revenue, when both countries Italy and UK are selected? I…
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Board Impact Analysis: A Powerful Developer Tool
Author: Bart Scott, Board Developer at CFO Solutions LLC and Community Captain Board Impact Analysis is a very powerful tool that can be used to assess impacts of proposed changes as well as help in debugging, when used properly. There are two different areas you can utilize the Impact Analysis within Board. Only Developer…
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Visibility Property enhancement: "gone" element
The idea involves enhancing visibility property of objects by allowing the user to hide an object (through a flag) nately shifting all following ones upwards, just like in a standard css "display:none" property. This need comes from several requests recieved in order to easily be able to edit a dashboard by choosing which…
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Flexgrid: Aggregation Rules definition per Entity members/KPIs
We lack the possibility to define different aggregation rules and levels for different items of the same entity. For example: We have an entity "KPI" We have some Ratios in our KPIs Ratios need to be calculated at the granularity level that is currently displayed on the Flexgrid In Flexgrid, calculations are being…
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Flexgrid Headers
How can we remove these annoying aggregation functions indication from the Flexgrid Headers? It makes it impossible to fit columns to the needed width without making the header unreadable. I would also be fine with the possibility to wrap the header text. Moreover, the possibility to use @Selection in the header has…
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Flexgrid order columns
Hi any idea how to cluster all columns by year? It doesn't work for the calculated column for all years. Thanks Maik