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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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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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US Economic Outlook: September 2025
The August employment report reveals the U.S. economy is weaker than initially reported. With job creation at recession-level lows and unemployment measures rising, the labor market is signaling a clear slowdown. In this month’s 10-minute outlook, Board Principal Economist Natalie Gallagher explains what the labor data…
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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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Announcing Board's Latest SOC 1 Type II Report (July 2024 – June 2025)
We’re pleased to announce the successful completion of our SOC 1 Type II audit for the period 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025. This milestone reflects our ongoing commitment to maintaining the highest standards of internal controls and operational excellence. The SOC 1 Type II report provides independent assurance on the…
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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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Get to know the Q3 Community Captains!
Community Captains are front-and-center, paving the way for a more connected and impactful Board Community. Today we welcome four new Captains to the mix, ready and willing to connect and educate by sharing personal stories and advice with the ecosystem for the common goal of overcoming challenges and enabling success. We…
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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Board 14 Dates in Dataviews
We are currently in the middle of testing board 14 before upgrading and one of the things that users have raised multiple times is that they can no longer type or copy paste dates into the cell. This is really annoying as it forces you to use the calendar which significantly slows down data entry. Has anyone else…
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Smarter Error Notification Filtering
Our system already tracks many errors — most are expected and harmless (e.g. user interruptions, odd input, etc.). However, not all errors are equal, and treating them the same can overwhelm teams with noise. Proposal: Smarter filtering for error notifications — for example: Prioritize repeated or high-frequency errors…
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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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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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Board taking so much time for export text cubes and large size mdb cubes , is there any way ?
Board 14.4 is taking almost 2 hrs for extracting a text or large size mdb cube . Is there any way that i can make extract faster. I have tried using extract cube and dataset both , i didnot found a solution yet.
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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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How to set up a 4-4-5 calendar
*NEW—includes video demonstration. 1. Abstract Board offers the possibility to create custom time entities in addition to the standard time entities to customize the calendar to specific business needs. Our goal will be to build a retail calendar based on the scheme of a 4-4-5 quarter, which is a method of managing…
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Presentation - Add fixed comments/formatting on the slide
Actually, we cannot fix comments on presentation. It could be interesting to highlight important points e.g. As in Power Point application e.g., it would therefore be interesting to be able to attach comments or formatting to the slides of the presentations.
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Preventing Split & Splat on Near-Zero values
The issue The current split and splat functionality in Board EPM offers valuable flexibility for data entry at various aggregation levels. However, it can introduce significant errors and instability when applied to aggregated values that are near zero, particularly when negative values are present in the underlying cube.…
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Enable custom sort on Time Range entity members
Hi Team, Currently, the Time entity members doesnt allow custom sorting. In scenarios like we have multiple years and a selector based on year which might have more than 20 members which has both historical and future years, then it will be difficult for users to scroll down to current year and select everytime. If we can…
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B14 216: Section 1, step 6 - 8
Click on [...] at the right end of the "Currency" Entity to apply a dynamic selection based on a Cube. Select the "ACT - DF - Profit and Loss Statement LC" Cube from the drop-down "Cubes" list. Can I get some help understanding the logic here? What exactly is a dynamic selection doing using that P&L LC cube? What is it…
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Can someone please extend my Board training instance? The person responding doesn't follow through
I keep on getting this everyday and I've asked multiple times for someone to extend my Board training instance. @Gavin Murray keeps on responding but hasn't followed through. Please just extend my Board training instance by 20 days. Please refrain from telling me to not worry until after it has been extended please.…
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Please help me extend my Board training instance
Here is what I see in the new courses that ask me to setup my Board training environment. then when I click on View details → do I click on restart? I'm paranoid it'll clear everything I've done.
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Article How to loop procedures
Hi, Just reading through the article : How to loop procedures One part says Loading the extracted sequence into the Enumerator Cube so it looks something like this: How do I load data into a Temporary cube? Via the Data Reader I cannot see them. Thank you Maik
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How to freeze columns in a flex grid?
I have a flex grid with initial columns that contain base information. From these columns, the data expands horizontally by month. What I need is that when performing horizontal scrolling, the first columns remain fixed so that I don’t lose reference while navigating through the monthly information. Is there a way to…
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May I please request an extension for my board training instance?
I should be done with 200, part 3, but I need an extra week. I believe it will expire Sept 25, but if I could have it until October 2nd, that would really help. My email address / login is emil.amante@dolby.com Instance link: https://trainingacademy.board.com/a27-emilqzsabweb/en/capsules
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Connection failed: object reference not set to an instance of an object
Hello, I got the following message when trying to login on BOARD: Connection failed: object reference not set to an instance of an object I stopped and restarted the BOARD server but I still have the issue. An idea? Thank you and best regards
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FlexGrid, export to Excel flatten option should ensure there is just one header row
We have a FlexGrid that shows two years - for each year there are three columns. When this is exported to Excel, even with the flatten option selected, the header is in two rows. Of course this is a real pain in Excel. It means you then must adjust Excel, add the year to each of the respective columns to make just one…
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Data Model name in the Running tasks page
Hi Team, Sometimes when we have multiple data models in an instance and there are certain tasks triggered by different users which could be refer to different data models. However the running tasks information in the System Administration section does not give this information. Can we please see if it is possible to…
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Level 300 Part 2- Request to extend training enviornment
Hello Board team, Request you to please extend my training instance that's set to expire on Sep19th? I'm still working on it and couldn't complete it on time due to other work priorities. Thanks in advance for your support. Best regards, WS
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Level 200, Module 212, Section 8: Sales Procedure Group
So this part is interesting, and the TEMP cube I guess are kind of like "helper columns" I might use in excel when doing calculations. Step 7 to 10, could you explain the thought process why we designate the temp cube to be populated with GBP by multiplying the rates, and then in another data flow say BUD - DF - Profit and…